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Laurent Miclo (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, May 23, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5
We introduce and analyse the almost sure convergence of a stochastic algorithm for the global minimisation of smooth functions. This diffusion process is called fraudulent because it requires the knowledge of minimal value of the function. Nevertheless, its investigation is not without interest,...
Lucia Corno (Cattolica University)
May 23, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is an extremely harmful tradition that persists in many regions worldwide, imposing severe adverse effects on women’s health and human capital accumulation. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of two interventions designed to reduce the incidence of FGC among...
TSE, May 23–24, 2024, room Auditorium 3
Banque de France, Paris, May 22–23, 2024
Sebastian Otero (Columbia University)
TSE, May 21, 2024, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
We study the consequences of affirmative action in centralized college admissions systems. We develop an empirical framework to examine the effects of a large-scale program in Brazil that required all federal institutions to reserve half their seats for socioeconomically and racially marginalized...
Marijn Keijzer ( IAST)
May 21, 2024, 14:00–15:15, Auditorium 3, room Auditorium 3
Historically, research on political polarization has focused on the divergence of attitudes through reasoning, deliberation, or biased information processing. But, despite a general perception that polarization is increasing, the divergence of attitudes at the macro and the micro-level finds only...
Michael McMahon (Oxford University)
TSE, May 21, 2024, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
Policymakers communicate complex messages to multiple audiences; we investigate how complexity impacts messages `getting through' effectively. We distinguish `semantic' complexity - the focus of existing empirical studies - from `conceptual' complexity, which better reflects information-processing...
Sylvain Carré (Université Paris-Dauphine)
May 21, 2024, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room 4GH & Online
We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of DeFi lending to shed light on the role of pricing rules. We determine how the rule controls key equilibrium variables such as the utilization rate. Our model delivers a measure of welfare which incorporates the DeFi borrowing rate and the...
Paul E. Smaldino (University of California, Merced)
Toulouse: IAST, May 21, 2024, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Research on cultural evolution and social learning have identified optimal strategies for learning from others under a variety of conditions prevalent in our deep cultural past, including those based on individual markers of success and those based on aggregated information from many sources (e.g...
Joyee Deb (New-York University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 21, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
The nature of the collective action problem, such as a protest or costly voting in a committee, is that agents have incentives to coordinate and free-ride. If agents see more similar information, it can facilitate coordination but exacerbate free-riding. We propose an order of information similari...
