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November 22, 2024, 12:45–13:45, Toulouse: IAST
Samantha Burn (Imperial College London, Business School)
TSE, November 22, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
What is public health insurance for? The health policy community have long diverged from economists on this fundamental issue. Health policy frames insurance as promoting access to care, especially for the poor who cannot otherwise afford it. Economists frame insurance as a financial product,...
David Laborde (FAO)
Toulouse: TSE, November 21, 2024, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
Gérard Biau (Sorbonne Université)
Toulouse: TSE, November 21, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
Deep learning has become a prominent approach for many applications, such as computer vision or neural language processing. However, the mathematical understanding of these methods is still incomplete. A recent approach is to consider neural networks as discretized versions of differential...
Guido Friebel (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
November 21, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Using rich data on personnel records, work assignments, and performance in a finan- cial institution, we uncover the mechanisms leading to promotion gaps in knowledge teamwork. We find a substantial promotion gap for women in early career stages. Analyzing over 10,000 investment projects reveals...
Dita Eckardt (Warwick University)
TSE, November 19, 2024, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
Apprenticeships play a key role in enabling successful school-to-work transitions in many countries but, in the presence of imperfect information, the specificity of this type of training may entail important costs for those working outside their training fields. I study this issue in one of the...
Nenad Kos (Bocconi University)
TSE, November 18, 2024, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
The model considers a monopolist who optimally chooses the design and price of a product on the Hotelling line. We characterize the set of prices and consumer surplus that can arise in the model across all distributions of tastes. In a stark departure from the monopoly model without product design...
Alessio Ozanne (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, November 18, 2024, 12:30–14:00, room Auditorium 5
Should credit scoring algorithms be transparent or opaque? I study this question in a model where the lender uses data shared by borrowers for pricing and rationing credit, and is privately informed about the data-generating process, on which he tailors his algorithm. I show that revealing the...
Doina Radulescu (University of Bern)
Toulouse: TSE, November 18, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Reliable and available charging infrastructure is critical to electrifying the transportation sector. Policymakers and industry players are increasingly focusing on building out charging stations to support the growing electric vehicle fleet. However, potential congestion at charging stations and...
Pauline Rossi
Toulouse: TSE, November 15, 2024, 11:00–12:30, Auditorium 3, room Auditorium 3
Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial rule? We study the case of Burkina Faso, considered the largest labor reservoir in West Africa by the French colonial authorities. Hundreds of thousands of young men were forcibly...
