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Brussels, September 22–23, 2025
University of Zurich, September 19, 2025, 13:00–19:00
Richard Wrangham (Harvard University)
Toulouse: IAST, September 19, 2025, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
Many small-scale societies, including nomadic hunter-gatherers, are commonly referred to as “egalitarian,” meaning that equality of political influence is valued and enforced by societal norms. In general, however, the egalitarian principle applies only to married men. Husbands tend to dominate...
Romain Salis
Toulouse: TSE, September 18, 2025, 17:00, room Audtorium 3 JJ Laffont
Andreas Alfons (University of Rotterdam - Erasmus)
Toulouse: TSE, September 18, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
Graphical models serve as effective tools for visualizing conditional dependencies between variables. However, as the number of variables grows, interpretation becomes increasingly difficult, and estimation uncertainty increases due to the large number of parameters relative to the number of...
Jihyun Kim (Sungkyunkwan University)
TSE, September 16, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
This paper investigates instrumental variable (IV) estimation in linear instrumental variable regressions with heavy-tailed distributions. We allow for the possibility of weak instruments in the conventional sense, meaning that the first-stage regression coefficients may converge to zero as the...
Anette Fasang
Toulouse: IAST, September 16, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Recent reports suggest that post-millennial generations are the first to be worse off than their parents, on average, in several affluent capitalist democracies. However, we lack systematic country comparisons of generational shifts in wealth accumulation and wealth inequality, which would enable...
Luigi Iovino
September 16, 2025, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Salle 1 Driant and online
We link the consensus inflation forecasts of major banks to interest rates in 18 advanced economies during 1989-2022. We detect horizon-increasing overreaction: high expected inflation today predicts inflation overestimation and higher real returns on nominal bonds, especially at long maturities....
George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Toulouse: TSE, September 16, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
Emanuele Tarantino (European Commission)
TSE, September 15, 2025, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
The European Commission’s ongoing review of the Merger Guidelines comes as Europe seeks to accelerate innovation and bolster firms’ competitiveness. Against this backdrop, the report first examines the relationship between scale and investment in the digital backbone, documenting investment...
