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Copenhague, September 12 to September 12, 2025
Silvia Vannutelli
September 11, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Stimulus transfers are widely used during economic downturns, yet they are often poorly targeted from an economic perspective. I show that political incentives might help explain this discrepancy. I study one of the largest stimulus tax credits in Italy which excluded the poorest individuals and...
Andrea Davini (La Sapienza University)
Toulouse: TSE, September 11, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5
This talk focuses on the vanishing discount problem for first-order Hamilton–Jacobi (HJ) equations: as the discount parameter tends to zero, do discounted solutions converge and—when they do—which critical solution is selected? The question is closely linked to the ergodic approximation introduced...
George Georgiadis (ECB)
September 9, 2025, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Salle 4 Grand Hall and online
This paper presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date panel dataset on global trade invoicing currency and examines recent pattern shifts with a focus on geopolitical alignment. Using data for 132 countries from 1990 to 2023—including new coverage of the Chinese renminbi—we document five key...
Tan Gan (London School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, September 9, 2025, 10:15–11:30, room Auditorium 6
We argue that simple delegation rules are optimal in the presence of uncertainty in how agents manipulate delegation rules for their own private interest by considering a max-min delegation design problem, in which the principal has limited information about the agent’s preferences. In particular,...
Marica Valente (University of Innsbruck)
Toulouse: TSE, September 8, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 6
We introduce a "forensic" approach to detect informal employment arising from migration shocks and assess its effects on firms. Exploiting large, exogenous inflows from the Arab Spring to southern Italian coasts, we use vineyard micro data to identify anomalies in labor productivity (quantity per...
Romain Bouis (IMF)
September 4, 2025, 14:00–15:30, BDF, Paris, room Salle 5 de l’espace conférence
This paper examines empirically how the effect of interest rates on the three components of bank profits – loan loss provisions, net interest margin, and non-interest income – varies depending on bank characteristics and the macroprudential policy environment. A new finding is that higher interest...
Aaron Kaye (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
September 4, 2025, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
In many online markets, platforms engage in platform design by choosing product recom- mendation systems and selectively emphasizing certain product characteristics. I analyze the welfare effects of personalized recommendations in the context of the online market for hotel rooms using clickstream...
Stefan Kiefer (Oxford University)
Toulouse: TSE, September 4, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
Markov decision processes (MDPs) are a standard model for dynamic systems that exhibit both stochastic and nondeterministic behavior. For MDPs with finite state space it is known that for a wide range of objectives there exist optimal strategies that are memoryless and deterministic. In...
Angélique Acquatella (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, September 1, 2025, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
