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Lint Barrage (ETH, Zurich)
Toulouse: TSE, March 17, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
We assemble global spatially disaggregated panel data describing ambient particulate levels and transport, population, and economic and polluting activities. These data indicate the importance of country level determinants of pollution, of the equilibrium process that separates or brings together...
Johannes Schmidt Hieber (University of Twente)
Toulouse: TSE, March 17, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
The recent statistical theory of neural networks focuses on nonparametric denoising problems that treat randomness as additive noise. Variability in image classification datasets does, however, not originate from additive noise but from variation of the shape and other characteristics of the same...
Matthieu Lapeyre
Toulouse: TSE, March 13, 2025, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium 3 JJ LAFFONT
Come and join us for an engaging session as we delve into the case study of the highly debated merger between TF1 and M6, two giants of the French television landscape. Discover the strategic motivations behind this ambitious project and the reasons that led to its eventual abandonment at the end...
Yanos Zylberberg (Bristol University)
March 13, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Floating population: migration with(out) family and the spatial distribution of economic activity ∗ Cl ement Imbert Joan Monras Marlon Seror ́ Yanos Zylberberg January 24, 2025 Abstract A key, yet under-explored, aspect of migration is the decision to leave behind dependent family members. We...
Xavier Venel (LUISS Guido Carli University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 13, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
In many control problems there is only limited information about the actions that will be available at future stages. We introduce a framework where the Controller chooses actions a0, a1, ..., one at a time. Her goal is to maximize the probability that the infinite sequence is an element of a given...
Matias Cattaneo (Princeton University)
TSE, March 11, 2025, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
Boundary discontinuity designs are used to learn about treatment effects along a continuous boundary that splits units into control and treatment groups according to their bivariate score variable. These research designs are also called Multi-Score Regression Discontinuity designs, a leading...
Kenza Benhima (Université de Lausanne;HEC, Lausanne)
TSE, March 11, 2025, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
We examine the welfare-based opportunity cost of foreign exchange (FX) intervention when both CIP and UIP deviations are present. We consider a small open economy that receives international capital flows through constrained international financial intermediaries. Deviations from CIP come from...
Fiery Cushman (Harvard, United States)
Toulouse: IAST, March 11, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Cumulative culture is a cornerstone of human intelligence. Currently, two models give contrasting explanations of how it works. According to one, humans build causal models and innovate by reasoning over them; culture acts as a repository of these accomplishments. According to another, humans...
Gaurab Aryal (Boston University)
TSE, March 10, 2025, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
We consider the problem of aggregating individual preferences over alternatives into a social ranking. A key feature of the problems that we consider—and the one that allows us to obtain positive results, in contrast to negative results such as Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem—is that the alternatives...
Adelina Barbalau (University of Alberta)
Toulouse: TSE, March 10, 2025, 12:30–14:00, room Auditorium 6
We develop a theory of optimal security design for financing green investments in the presence of greenwashing. Green outcomes are uncertain and can be obtained through the implementation of tangible projects and/or intangible effort-based strategies. When manipulation is not possible, the optimal...
