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Laurent Barras (University of Luxembourg)
Toulouse: TSE, December 8, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
Felix Poege (Bocconi University)
TSE, December 5, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany’s leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed the...
December 5, 2025, 11:00–12:30, TSE
Jana Gieselmann (University of Edinburgh)
December 4, 2025, 14:00–15:00, room Zoom
As platforms collect more user data, they can tailor algorithms to better match users. At the same time, on matching platforms, users pay to be matched by the platform, while the platform makes money as long as it does not match them. This paper analyzes the matching rule of a profit-maximizing...
Luca Nenna (Université Paris-Saclay)
Toulouse: TSE, December 4, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5
In this talk we introduce the semi-discrete optimal transport (OT) problem with entropic regularization. We characterize the solution using a governing, well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). This naturally yields an algorithm to solve the problem numerically, which turns out to be...
Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University)
December 4, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
We document pervasive frictions in news consumption on social media, and test interventions designed to address them through a large field experiment on Facebook. We find that a simple, platform-integrated interface prompting active choice significantly and persistently reduces the partisan slant...
Toulouse, December 4–5, 2025, room TSE/IAST Building
Marcelo Moreira (Fundacao Getulio Vargas)
TSE, December 2, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
This paper highlights the importance of finding all roots for the Continuously Updating Generalized Method of Moments (CU-GMM) estimator and Likelihood Ratio (LR)-based tests. Traditional numerical optimization methods often fail to locate global minima due to the non-convexity of objective...
Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics)
December 2, 2025, 14:00–15:00, BDF, Paris, room Online and room 4GH
With the monetary policy lower bound a re-emerging concern in some locations, we present new insights on the impact of negative policy rates. We develop a new theoretical model to match the empirical evidence on their effects. It features a heterogeneous, oligopolistic banking sector where loan...
Imelda (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Toulouse: TSE, December 1, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Low Emission Zones (LEZs) —restricted areas for vehicles that fail to meet certain environmental standards— are becoming an increasingly popular policy tool to encourage the adoption of low emission vehicles. Despite this, little is known about their optimal design, particularly regarding which...
