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Huseyin Yildirim (Duke University)
TSE, March 9, 2026, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
We study how firms design training content to manage the skill distribution of careerconcerned workers. Core training builds common skills, leveling the playing field for promotions, whereas idiosyncratic training (e.g., mentorship) builds unique skills that improve the signaling value of...
Nicholas Vreugdenhil (Arizona State University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 9, 2026, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Utilities increasingly sell electricity using complex menus of time-constant and time-varying price schedules. We study how to design such a menu to maximize social welfare in a secondbest environment where the marginal private and external costs of generating electricity vary over time,...
Thierry Foucault
Toulouse: TSE, March 9, 2026, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 6
Private information in financial markets enhances the informational content of asset prices and thereby supports efficient resource allocation. Yet, informed traders extract rents at the expense of uninformed traders, generating a trade-off between price informativeness and liquidity costs....
March 9, 2026, 09:15–17:00, room Auditorium 3
Michela Boldrini (Bocconi University)
March 5, 2026, 14:00–15:00, Zoom
Online marketplaces rely on opaque ranking algorithms that steer consumers’ choices. We study how transparency about such algorithms affects consumer behavior on Amazon’s marketplace, focusing on the Buy Box—the feature that preselects a default seller for most products. We conduct an online (...
Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
February 19, 2026, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Room 4GH and online
How does pay transparency affect bank opacity? We answer this question by studying the impact of the introduction of pay transparency laws across nine U.S. states with both advert-, individual- and bank-level data. We find that after the introduction: (1) more adverts include pay information; (2)...
February 14, 2026, 09:30–17:00, room Manufacture des Tabacs
Francesco Lippi (LUISS)
February 10, 2026, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Room 4GH and online
Inflation gives rise to inefficient price dispersion in New Keynesian models. Yet empirical analyses suggest that such costs are small (see e.g., Nakamura et al. (2018)). We study price dispersion using a new model that enriches the canonical sticky-price model with an information-gathering...
Lionel Cousseins (Head of Energy & Climate Scenarios / Market Scenarios at Airbus)
Toulouse: TSE, February 5, 2026, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont
This talk will cover Lionel Coussein’s role in Energy & Climate Scenarios, followed by an illustration of the usefulness and relevance of studying these scenarios for evaluating decarbonization options in aviation. As a TSE alumnus, he will also showcase the diversity of roles and activities...
Michele Bisceglia (Yale University)
February 5, 2026, 14:00–15:00, Zoom
We study how privacy regulation affects menu pricing by a monopolist platform that collects and monetizes personal data. Consumers differ in privacy valuation and sophistication: naive users ignore privacy losses, while sophisticated users internalize them. The platform designs prices and data...
