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Susana Monso (UNED Madrid)
Toulouse: IAST, November 4, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
The range of animal practices potentially classified as medical varies widely both functionally and mechanistically, and there is no agreed upon definition of medicine that can help determine which cases ought to count as such. In this paper, we argue that all available definitions are fatally...
Marina Halac (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, November 4, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
Joint with Elliot Lipnowski (Yale) and Doron Ravid (Michigan).
Heiko Karle (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)
TSE, November 3, 2025, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
We develop a model to study the pricing and welfare implications of recom- mender platforms—i.e., platforms that provide recommendations about products that match a consumer’s preference. Sellers decide whether to be active on the platform, and consumers can buy via seller’s direct channel or via...
Jan Starmans
Toulouse: TSE, November 3, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
We develop a spatial model of climate risks when goods markets across regions are economically integrated but firms can only insure against local climate shocks. We show that firms’ insurance demands across regions can be strategic complements or substitutes depending on the correlation of climate...
Ryan Abman (San Diego State University)
Toulouse: TSE, November 3, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Improving agricultural productivity is vital to anti-poverty and food security goals but can have ecological ramifications. Increasing the relative value of agricultural land may spur deforestation, but factor market constraints paired with improvements in existing land productivity may reduce the...
Sean Ennis (University of East Anglia - Norwich Business School)
October 31, 2025, 15:30–17:30, room Auditorium A4
In principle, a ‘natural' monopoly exists when a single firm has the lowest cost structure for production. This paper shows that a paradox arises for certain infrastructure and delivery products that satisfy a widely accepted technical definition for such monopolies. Under well-specified conditions...
Matteo Bobba
Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont, October 31, 2025
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 30, 2025, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium Jean-Jacques Laffont
October 30, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
The resurgence of subsidies and industrial policies has raised concerns about their potential inefficiency and alignment with multilateral principles. Critics warn that such policies may divert resources to less efficient firms and provoke retaliatory measures from other countries, leading to a...
Toulouse, October 30, 2025, room Auditorium 3 JJ LAFFONT
