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Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University)
Toulouse: IAST, April 1, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
What contributes to the formation of working class identity? A body of evidence from social psychology has shown that identification with any social group entails a cognitive component: people are more likely to identify with a group if they are similar to its prototypical member. We apply this...
Anne-Katrin Roesler (University of Toronto)
Toulouse: TSE, April 1, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
We study a bilateral trade setting with interdependent values and two-sided private information. A buyer’s value for a good depends both on his privately known type and the good’s quality that he does not observe. The cost of the seller also depends on both the buyer’s type and the quality; she...
April 1, 2025, 10:00–14:45, room Auditorium 6
Catherine Hausman (University of Michigan)
Toulouse: TSE, March 31, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Accelerated investment in electricity transmission could reduce total costs and enhance renewable integration. I document static allocative inefficiencies induced by incomplete market integration in two major U.S. markets; these have risen over time and totaled $2 billion in 2022. I also argue that...
Matteo Benetton (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse: TSE, March 31, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3 TBC
Small businesses in the US are frequently excluded from borrowing through traditional term loans or lines of credit and rely instead on highly standardized, high-interest rate business credit cards to meet their financing needs. Are rates high because this credit is costly to provide or because...
Zarek Brot-Goldberg (The University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy)
TSE, March 28, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
We analyze the economic consequences of rising US health care prices. By increasing the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance, rising prices serve as a de facto payroll tax on labor. Using exposure to hospital mergers as an instrument, we estimate that a 1% increase in health care prices...
Jordan Loper (Université Clermont Auvergne)
March 27, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Can social media help promote female access to political positions? Using data from 8,814 parliamentary races across 17 sub-Saharan African countries, we explore this question in a context of significant political underrepresentation of women and rising Facebook penetration over the past decade. We...
John Einmahl (Tilburg University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 27, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
We employ the novel theory of heterogeneous extreme value statistics to accurately estimate the ultimate world records for the 100-m running race, for men and for women. For this aim we collected data from 1991 through 2023 from thousands of top athletes, using multiple fast times per athlete. We...
Julien Grenet (Paris School of Economics)
TSE, March 25, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
We analyze the impact of a national large-scale desegregation program, targeting a greater mixing of students from different social backgrounds in middle schools, on friendship networks. We compare students in sites covered by the desegregation program (“treatment” group) with students in “matched...
Priit Jeenas (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
TSE, March 25, 2025, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
The exposure of firms and financial institutions to aggregate shocks is a key driver behind financial crises. This paper studies how idiosyncratic uninsurable labor income risk faced by lender households influences the concentration of aggregate risk on borrower entrepreneurs’ balance sheets. I...
