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Larry Samuelson (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, April 8, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
We examine an analyst who uses a latent representation, reflecting either complexity constraints or prior information, or organize her estimating of a data generating process and subsequent updating and prediction. We draw connections between this setting and problems of misspecified learning and...
Carol Propper ( Imperial College Business School)
TSE, April 4, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Governments have reformed public services by adopting private sector governance models that grant top directors greater autonomy, responsibility for meeting key targets, and performance-based rewards. We examine a central plank of this approach–that directors can impact the organizations they run–...
Léo Fitouchi
April 3, 2025, 14:00–15:30, Auditorium 6 (Level 3)
What is the structure and function of moral cognition? According to leading theories, moral judgments arise from a collection of disparate mechanisms (e.g., reciprocity, norm-enforcement, pathogen-avoidance). My research, by contrast, suggests that moral cognition is more unified: most of moral...
Yijun Wan (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)
Toulouse: TSE, April 3, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
Blackwell’s approachability is a general online learning framework where a Decision Maker obtains vector-valued outcomes, and aims at the convergence of the average outcome to a given “target” set. Blackwell gave a sufficient condition for the decision maker having a strategy guaranteeing such a...
Keith Ericson (Boston University)
April 3, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Spending induced by health insurance is often called moral hazard and definitionally assumed to be inefficient. We adapt standard models and show that for those living ``hand-to-mouth", the financing benefits of insurance cause a portion of moral hazard to be efficient. Although insurance's price...
Michal Gal (University of Haifa)
TSE & IAST, April 2, 2025, 12:30–13:30, Auditorium A4
Competition laws are influenced by economic presumptions regarding how markets operate. Such presumptions generally relate to how humans interact, such as how human decision-makers – whether acting as individuals or as agents of a firm – gather information, send signals, and deal with complex,...
Lance Lochner (NBER;Western Ontario University)
TSE, April 1, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
Economists disagree about the factors driving the substantial increase in residual wage inequality in the US over the past few decades. To identify changes in the returns to unobserved skills, we make a novel assumption about the lifecycle dynamics of skills, which we validate using data on test...
Andrew Rhodes
April 1, 2025, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
This paper offers a framework for studying digital ecosystems and data regulation. In our model, a multi-product ecosystem competes with small single-product firms in both price and innovation. Data regulation either restricts data usage across business units within the ecosystem or requires the...
Marta Prato (Bocconi University)
TSE, April 1, 2025, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
Firms that spread innovation activities across multiple local markets account for most U.S. innovation output. How does this geographical structure influence aggregate innovation and growth? Should governments encourage innovative firms to expand their geographical reach to more local markets? To...
Eleonora Granziera (Norges Bank)
April 1, 2025, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room salle 4 de l'espace conférence and online
There is a growing body of research on the inflation expectations of households, firms, and professional forecasters. However, direct comparison across these agents remains challenging as survey evidence typically stems from different countries, time periods and questionnaires. Furthermore, little...
