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Devesh Raval ( Harvard Law School)
November 1, 2022, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
Online platforms can strongly influence consumer behavior through default options, creating incentives to steer consumers to their own products and services. In this paper, I examine how Amazon determines which merchant is the default option on the Amazon Buy Box. Using data on hundreds of...
Brussels, October 28, 2022, 09:00
Brussels, October 27, 2022
Clara Santamaria (Universiy of Carlos III de Madrid)
TSE, October 25, 2022, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
This paper highlights the role of delayed childbearing as an important driver of urban revival in U.S. cities. While downtown neighborhoods provide shorter commuting times and more consumption amenities, limited housing space and schools’ worse quality considerably reduce the value of this location...
Federico Ciliberto (University of Virginia)
TSE, October 24, 2022, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
We investigate whether political candidates engage in ``dialogue'' over campaign themes, and what determines the extent of that dialogue in US Political Campaigns, 2012-2018. We define ``dialogue'' as the occasion where both candidates air political ads that discuss the same campaign theme. We...
Pierre Tarrès (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Toulouse: TSE, October 20, 2022, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
The creation of a language can be understood, in a simplified setting, as a dynamics arising from a repeated game with two players: Sender and Receiver. Both have a limited number of States of Nature that can be communicated (say M), and of Signals available to transmit them (say N). At every time...
October 20–21, 2022, room Auditorium 3
Xavier Lambin (ESSEC Business School)
TSE & IAST, October 19, 2022, 12:30–13:30, Auditorium A4 - level 1
The best-performing and most popular algorithms are often the least explainable. In parallel, there is growing concern and evidence that sophisticated algorithms may engage, autonomously, in prot-maximizing but welfare-damaging strategies. Drawing on the literature on self-regulation and following...
Emil Verner (MIT Sloan)
Toulouse: TSE, October 18, 2022, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
Unexpected inflation redistributes wealth toward equity owners of highly levered firms. In the presence of financing frictions, such redistribution can impact the allocation of real activity. We use the German inflation of 1919-1923 as a laboratory to study how a large and unexpected inflation is...
Shanjun Li (Johnson Graduate School of Management - Cornell University)
TSE, October 17, 2022, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
Attribute-based subsidies are commonly used to promote the diffusion of energy-efficient products in industries with significant market power. We first develop a theoretical framework for optimal policy design that incorporates endogenous product attributes, (environmental) externalities, and...
