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Matteo Benetton (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse: TSE, March 31, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3 TBC
Small businesses in the US are frequently excluded from borrowing through traditional term loans or lines of credit and rely instead on highly standardized, high-interest rate business credit cards to meet their financing needs. Are rates high because this credit is costly to provide or because...
Zarek Brot-Goldberg (The University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy)
TSE, March 28, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
We analyze the economic consequences of rising US health care prices. By increasing the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance, rising prices serve as a de facto payroll tax on labor. Using exposure to hospital mergers as an instrument, we estimate that a 1% increase in health care prices...
Jordan Loper (Université Clermont Auvergne)
March 27, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Can social media help promote female access to political positions? Using data from 8,814 parliamentary races across 17 sub-Saharan African countries, we explore this question in a context of significant political underrepresentation of women and rising Facebook penetration over the past decade. We...
John Einmahl (Tilburg University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 27, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
We employ the novel theory of heterogeneous extreme value statistics to accurately estimate the ultimate world records for the 100-m running race, for men and for women. For this aim we collected data from 1991 through 2023 from thousands of top athletes, using multiple fast times per athlete. We...
Julien Grenet (Paris School of Economics)
TSE, March 25, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
We analyze the impact of a national large-scale desegregation program, targeting a greater mixing of students from different social backgrounds in middle schools, on friendship networks. We compare students in sites covered by the desegregation program (“treatment” group) with students in “matched...
Priit Jeenas (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
TSE, March 25, 2025, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
The exposure of firms and financial institutions to aggregate shocks is a key driver behind financial crises. This paper studies how idiosyncratic uninsurable labor income risk faced by lender households influences the concentration of aggregate risk on borrower entrepreneurs’ balance sheets. I...
Charles Mullon (University of Lausanne)
Toulouse: IAST, March 25, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Organisms continually modify their environments in ways that influence the fitness of conspecifics. Such environmentally mediated social behaviours can have lasting effects across generations through ecological inheritance. In this talk, I’ll review theoretical insights into how natural selection...
Leeat Yariv (University of Princeton)
Toulouse: TSE, March 25, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
We study strategic interactions in decentralized matching markets, where firms make directed offers to workers and agents’ preferences are aligned. We show that stable outcomes can be achieved through decentralized interactions if either information frictions or time frictions exist independently....
Ozlem Bedre Defolie (University of Florence)
TSE, March 24, 2025, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
We study competition for acquisition of a start-up and its effect on the innovator's choice for the “direction of innovation”, which determines the fit of the innovation to each acquirer. We show that an initially lower quality firm can acquire innovation and increase its market share, that is, “...
Gabriel Englander (World Bank)
Toulouse: TSE, March 24, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Most African coastal nations prohibit industrial vessels from fishing near their shores; these Inshore Exclusion Zones (IEZs) reserve the richest fishing grounds for artisanal fishers. However, previous research suggests non-compliance by industrial vessels prevents IEZs from benefiting African...
