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September 20, 2024
Alexandre Carbonnel (Alix Partners)
Toulouse: TSE, September 19, 2024, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
Jean-Pierre Florens (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, September 19, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
David Cutler (Harvard University)
September 19, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Opioid overdose death rates in the United States have risen continuously for over three decades, increasing 2,142 percent in total from 1990 to 2020. This is surprising. One might expect drug epidemics to be self-limiting, as policy and individual behavior reacts to observed deaths. We study why...
Collège de France, Paris, September 18, 2024
September 17, 2024, 16:00–17:00, room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
Lee Cronk (Rutgers)
Toulouse: IAST, September 17, 2024, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
In times of crisis, risk pooling can enhance the resilience of individuals, households, and communities. Risk pooling systems are most effective when their participants adhere to several principles: (1) participants should agree that the pool is for needs that arise unpredictably, not for routine,...
Neeltje Van Horen (University of Amsterdam;Bank of England)
September 17, 2024, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room 4GH and Online
We show that easing homebuyer liquidity constraints significantly boosts consumption through its impact on housing market activity. For identification, we exploit a large UK mortgage market stimulus program and employ difference-in-differences analyses using administrative mortgage data linked to...
Julia Salmi (Hanken School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, September 17, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
We analyze the consequences of payoff externalities in social learning. The leading example is innovation adoption under network effects. When choosing whether to adopt a new innovation, an individual agent faces uncertainty about the quality of the innovation and about its popularity in the future...
Edward Rubin (Oregon State University)
Toulouse: TSE, September 16, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Interactions between overlapping air quality regulations can have unintended impacts on polluting activities. We document one such potentially important interaction. Local regulators in areas constrained by one type of regulation—e.g., threshold-based local air quality standards—are incentivized to...
