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Andrey Fradkin (Boston University)
June 28, 2022, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
Online reviews are typically written by volunteers and, consequently, accurate information about seller quality may be underprovided. We study the extent of this under-provision using a randomized experiment conducted by Airbnb. In the treatment, buyers are offered a coupon to review listings that...
Toulouse School of Economics, June 28 to July 1, 2022, room Auditorium 3
Paris, June 27, 2022, 14:30
Sophie Hatte
June 23, 2022, room Auditorium 6
User-generated online content changes traditional-media news on conflicts. Online posts by citizen journalists — first-hand witnesses of conflict events — change the extent, tonality, and content of traditional-media reporting of conflicts. Using an exogenous and excludable variation in online...
Madrid, June 23, 2022
Stefan Hunt (UK Competition and Markets Authority)
TSE & IAST, June 22, 2022, 12:30–13:30, Auditorium A4
Over the course of the last decade, the innovation and proliferation of digital technologies radically transformed existing markets and gave birth to new ones. Alongside this change the skills that firms need to compete shifted. Competition and consumer agencies similarly have expanded their...
Anna Cieslak (NBER;Duke University;CEPR)
June 21, 2022, BDF Paris
Deviations from a policy rule underpin empirical identification of monetary policy shocks. We cast light on how deviations arise by analyzing internal policy deliberations of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). We show that policymakers’ beliefs about higher-order moments of economic...
Toulouse, June 17–18, 2022
Stefano Carattini
June 17, 2022, Banque de France, Paris
Whether and how firms are affected by uncertainty revolving around the implementation of climate policy is crucial to understand their behavior as well as investors’, which are interesting per se and also have implications for the potential for systemic risk related with the coordinated...
Isabelle Brocas (University of Southern California)
June 16, 2022, 11:00–12:30, room Atelier
Decision-making in children and teens has been receiving growing attention in recent years. This interest stems from the need to design interventions in schools in order to improve opportunities and outcomes later in life. It also stems from the realization that understanding developmental...
