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Margarita Tsoutsoura (Washington University in Saint Louis)

Toulouse: TSE, September 29, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3

We examine how the political ideology of corporate leaders shapes cross-border firm networks. Exploiting changes in ideological alignment between U.S. firm CEOs and foreign governments around close foreign elections, we show that U.S. firms are more likely to terminate trade relationships with...

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Jacob Moscona (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Toulouse: TSE, September 29, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4

Can public R&D investment in developing countries drive productivity growth? We study this question in the context of Brazilian agriculture and the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), a public research corporation established in 1973 to develop locally suitable science and...

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Bâtiment TSE, September 26, 17:00 to September 27, 2025, 08:00

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Alexandros Gelastopoulos

Toulouse: IAST, September 26, 2025, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)

The disjunction effect (DE) refers to an empirical violation of the Sure-Thing Principle (STP), which states that if a person is willing to take an action independently of the outcome of some event, then they must be willing to do so even when the outcome of the event is unknown. A standard...

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Reshmaan Hussam (Northwestern University)

September 25, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4

Female labor force participation remains lower than male participation in many settings. Can this be explained by households’ preference for men’s work, and are these preferences malleable? We address this question with a field experiment in a refugee camp setting in Bangladesh, where we randomly...

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Pierre Cyril Aubin (CERMICS-ENPC)

Toulouse: TSE, September 25, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3

How to go beyond the square distance d² in optimization algorithms and flows in metric spaces? Replacing it with a general cost function c(x,y) and using a majorize-minimize framework I will detail a generic class of algorithms encompassing Newton/mirror/natural/Riemannian gradient descent/Sinkhorn...

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Laurent Davezies (ENSAE)

TSE, September 23, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4

This paper studies identification and estimation of average causal effects, such as average marginal or treatment effects, in fixed effects logit models with short panels. Relating the identified set of these effects to an extremal moment problem, we first show how to obtain sharp bounds on such...

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Farzad Saidi (University of Bonn, Germany)

September 23, 2025, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Salle F148 and online

Bank runs are a central concern for financial stability, yet systematic empirical evidence remains scarce. We construct a novel historical dataset of bank runs, covering 184 countries since 1800 by combining narrative evidence from 503 sources with statistical indicators of aggregate deposit...

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Alyssa Crittenden (University of Nevada)

Toulouse: IAST, September 23, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)

Cooperation lies at the heart of human evolution, shaping both our biology and our social environment. Here, we will examine the ecological and evolutionary foundations of cooperation through insights from long-term fieldwork among Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania. Food sharing,...

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Maryam Farboodi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Toulouse: TSE, September 23, 2025, 11:00–12:15Toulouse: TSE, September 23, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3

We study a model of credit markets with adverse selection where ex-ante identical lenders invest in a screening technology to reduce their type I and type II error in identifying good borrowers. A rich market structure emerges in equilibrium with continuous heterogeneity in lender screening and non...

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