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Ludvig Sinander (Oxford University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 28, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
co-authored with Gregorio Curello and Mark Whitmeyer We uncover a close link between outside options and risk attitude: when a decision-maker gains access to an outside option, her behaviour becomes less risk-averse, and conversely, any observed decrease of risk-aversion can be explained by an...
Eric Chyn (University of Texas, Austin)
TSE, October 24, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
This paper studies the ideology of government officials and coercive policymaking by studying the Indian Affairs office and the detailed reports of its bureaucrats who held authority over the land, education, and legal governance of Indigenous populations in the United States. We digitize the...
Eshien Chong (Autorité de la concurrence)
October 17, 2025, 14:30–16:30, room Auditorium A4
While competition policy has traditionally focused primarily on product markets, the recent years have seen an increased interest among competition enforcers in the labour markets. The US Department of Justice famously undertook antitrust action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged...
Violeta I. Haas
Toulouse: IAST, October 17, 2025, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (first floor - TSE building)
A large literature shows that media reporting about out-group crime shapes political attitudes and voting, yet overlooks a crucial upstream actor: the police, who supply the information that newsrooms rely on. We argue that the police act as strategic bureaucrats who increase disclosure of out-...
Arthur Seibold (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich)
TSE, October 17, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
We study the influence of family members, neighbors and coworkers on retirement behavior. To estimate causal retirement spillovers between individuals, we exploit a pension reform in the Netherlands that creates exogenous variation in peers' retirement ages, and we use administrative data on the...
Pavlo Mozharovzkyi (Télécom ParisTech)
Toulouse: TSE, October 16, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Anomaly detection is a branch of data analysis and machine learning which aims at identifying observations that exhibit abnormal behaviour. Be it measurement errors, disease development, severe weather, production quality default(s) (items) or failed equipment, financial frauds or crisis events,...
Egon Tripodi (Hertie School;University of Governance)
October 16, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 5
We conduct an experiment in which U.S. Democrats and Republicans engage in naturalistic video conversations about policy-relevant facts. We investigate self-selection into politically homogeneous interactions and how these interactions affect information aggregation and affective polarization....
October 16, 09:00 to October 17, 2025, 14:00, room Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont
Andrew Shephard (KU Leuven)
TSE, October 14, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
Following the seminal paper by Altonji and Segal (1996), empirical studies have widely embraced equal or diagonal weighting in minimum distance estimation to mitigate the finite-sample bias caused by sampling errors in the weighting matrix. This paper introduces a new weighting scheme that combines...
Rachel Ngai (London School of Economics)
TSE, October 14, 2025, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
Mobility barriers hinder structural transformation and economic growth. This paper examines how land market frictions constrain labor mobility. In developing countries, rural households risk losing land if they stop cultivating it. This implicit barrier is made explicit through China’s hukou system...