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Maya Eden (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Toulouse: TSE, September 9, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Should people's concern for the wellbeing of their descendants affect policy decisions? I consider a model in which people's dynastic utilities depend on the consumption of their descendants. The social welfare function is a discounted sum of past, present and future dynastic utilities. I establish...
BDF, Paris, September 9, 2024
Mert Demirer (MIT Sloan)
September 3, 2024, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven...
Alexey Kushnir (Carnegie Mellon University)
Toulouse: TSE, September 3, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
We consider the problem of allocating courses to students in post-secondary institutions. We propose a mechanism that assigns course seats based on student preferences and respects course priorities. This mechanism uses fake money and competitive equilibrium to allocate courses without transfers...
Maximilian Müller
Toulouse: TSE, September 2, 2024, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
Guy Aridor (Northwestern University)
July 2, 2024, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We use a novel dataset of online advertiser performance and product sales to quantify the medium-term economic effects of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Policy (ATT). We find that ATT significantly degraded the ability by Facebook advertisers to target advertisements based on its off-platform...
Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, July 1, 08:30 to July 3, 2024, 17:00, room Amphithéatre Schwartz, Institute of Mathematics of Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier.
June 27, 08:00 to June 28, 2024, 18:00, room Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
Simon Gilchrist (New-York University)
June 25, 2024, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Online & Room E336
We use a comprehensive data set of home mortgage loan originations from 2001-2018 matched with banks’ income and balance sheet statements to analyze how fluctuations in bank health influence local credit supply and county-level economic outcomes. To isolate fluctuations in the supply of credit, our...
Kathelijne Koops (Zurich University)
Toulouse: IAST, June 25, 2024, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Complex technology is a defining feature of modern humans. Our technological innovations have reshaped our planet and changed the impact of evolutionary forces upon our lives. Despite the significance of human technology, the evolutionary origin of this complex use of tools is not well understood....
