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Michael Carter (University of California - Davis)
March 21, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Poverty reduction programs modeled on BRAC's graduation approach build up both tangible productive assets and intangible psychosocial assets such as self-confidence and the aspiration for upward mobility. The goal of this paper is to better understand how psychosocial factors operate and shape the...
Flore Sentenac (CREST, ENSAE)
Toulouse: TSE, March 21, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
We investigate online maximum cardinality matching, a central problem in ad allocation. In this problem, users are revealed sequentially, and each new user can be paired with any previously unmatched campaign that it is compatible with. Despite the limited theoretical guarantees, the greedy...
Elena Pastorino (Stanford University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 20, 2024, 11:00–12:30, Auditorium 3, room Auditorium 3
We develop a dynamic macroeconomic framework with worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and putty-clay adjustment frictions in order to study the distributional impact of labor market policies in the short and long run. Our model helps reconcile the tension between low short-run and high long-run...
Ingar Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics)
March 19, 2024, 16:00–17:15, room Auditorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building)
Qualitative interviews are one of the fundamental tools of empirical social science research and give individuals the opportunity to explain how they understand and interpret the world, allowing researchers to capture detailed and nuanced insights into complex phenomena. However, qualitative...
Claudia Noack (University of Bonn, Germany)
TSE, March 19, 2024, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
Empirical regression discontinuity (RD) studies often use covariates to increase the precision of their estimates. In this paper, we propose a novel class of estimators that use such covariate information more efficiently than the linear adjustment estimators that are currently used widely in...
Kevin Munger (Penn State University)
Toulouse, March 19, 2024, 14:00–15:15, Auditorium 3 JJL, room Auditorium 3 JJL
We demonstrate that fabricated videos of public officials synthesized by deep learning(“deepfakes”) are credible to a large portion of the American public – up to 50% of a representative sample of 5,750 subjects – however no more than equivalent misinformation in extant modalities like text...
Ciaran Rogers (HEC, Paris)
TSE, March 19, 2024, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
This paper studies the role of local banking systems in the propagation of ECB Quantitative Easing (QE) programs. I firstly document that local deposit markets are fragmented across country lines, but the assets held by banks backing the deposits are in more integrated markets. I then consider a...
Gino Cattani (NYU)
Toulouse: IAST, March 19, 2024, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
By integrating Herbert Simon’s theory of artifact and Brian Arthur’s concept of functionality in technology, we propose a novel conceptual framework for analyzing the process by which shadow options embedded in a firm’s existing technologies emerge and are converted into real options. We apply this...
Mengxi Zhang (University of Bonn, Germany)
Toulouse: TSE, March 19, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
We use the tools of mechanism design, combined with the theory of risk measures, to analyze how a cash constrained owner of an asset with known stochastic returns raises capital from a population of investors that differ in their risk aversion and budget constraints. The issuer partitions the asset...
Fabian Winkler (Board of the Fed)
March 19, 2024, BDF, Paris, room 4GH & Online
We propose a novel explanation for persistent movements in the natural rate of interest (r-star) based on two-sided learning between the central bank and the private sector. We analyze a New-Keynesian model where both learn about r-star from each other. When both sides fail to recognise that their...
