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Diego Känzig (Northwestern University)
June 5, 2025, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Video and Room 6 Grand Hall
We develop a novel measure of climate policy uncertainty based on newspaper coverage. Our index spikes during key U.S. climate policy events—including presidential announcements on international agreements, congressional debates, and regulatory disputes—and shows a recent upward trend. Using an...
Alexander Meister (Rostock University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 5, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
: Expected values weighted by the inverse of a multivariate density or, equivalently, Lebesgue integrals of regression functions with multivariate regressors occur in various areas of applications, including estimating average treatment effects, nonparametric estimators in random coefficient...
Samuel Bazzi (University of California, San Diego)
June 5, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Long central to nation- and state-building, compulsory military service is again in focus amid rising geopolitical tensions, reviving questions about its broader consequences. We construct a novel global database of conscription reforms spanning 78 countries, linked to harmonized census and survey...
Michael Sullivan
June 3, 2025, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
This article studies the efficiency and distributional properties of platform fees in the US food delivery sector. Using a structural model estimated on data covering all major delivery platforms, I quantify distortions arising from platform market power, cross-side externalities, and features...
Juuso Välimäki (Aalto University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 3, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
We analyze the matching of buyers and sellers in a stylized market where the quality of the sellers’ goods is uncertain, and the buyers have correlated perceptions of the qualities. We show the existence of a symmetric equilibrium for alternative sales mechanisms within matches, and we evaluate...
Ciaran Rogers
Toulouse, June 2, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 6
We provide survey evidence that individuals believe there is substantial nonpayment risk in annuity, life insurance, and long-term care insurance (LTCI) products. Using simple statistical analysis we show that nonpayment beliefs predict insurance ownership and that the insurance ownership rate...
Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building, June 2–3, 2025
Lisbon, Portugal, May 28 to May 28, 2025
Valentina Paredes (University of Chile)
TSE, May 27, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
In this paper, we study the effects of the Women’s Labor Subsidy (WLS), introduced in 2012, on women’s labor outcomes. We use detailed administrative records for more than 2.5 million women that allow us to analyze employment and income trajectories before, during, and after the implementation of...
Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics)
TSE, May 27, 2025, 14:00–15:15, room Auditorium 4
Two currencies circulate in parallel in China, the mainland CNY and the offshore CNH.This implements capital controls as long as their exchange rate is pegged. This papercharacterises this peculiar systembyisolatingtheconventionalchannelsthrough which monetary and liquidity policies sustain it....
