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Thomas Douenne (University of Amsterdam)
Toulouse: TSE, May 13, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
We study optimal fiscal policy to address climate change and inequality. We theoretically characterize optimal carbon and income taxes, and quantify them for the US economy with the climate model calibrated to DICE. In contrast to the representative-agent setting, we find that (i) tax distortions...
Joachim Freyberger (Bonn University)
TSE, May 7, 2024, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
This study provides a structural analysis of detailed, alternating-offer bargaining data from eBay, deriving bounds on buyers and sellers private value distributions and the gains from trade using a range of assumptions on behavior. These assumptions range from weak (assuming only that acceptance...
Tony Ke (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
May 7, 2024, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Seminar
We consider the strategic use of information by an online platform to both guide consumers' search through product recommendations and influence sellers' targeted advertising decision. Our model unifies the analysis of personalized product recommendation and targeted advertising under the...
Arturas Rozenas (NYU)
Toulouse: IAST, May 7, 2024, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
The conventional wisdom says that representation pacifies politics by replacing bullets with ballots. We contest this claim by highlighting how institutionalized congregation enables the representatives to exercise their collective power, making the threat of a revolt more credible and raising the...
Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building, May 6–7, 2024
Augusto Ospital (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, May 3, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 5
Countries are increasingly turning to non-tariff barriers that are hard to measure and often illegal under WTO rules. What are the impacts of these policies, and what do they reveal about market power in international trade? We study a comprehensive system of discretionary import licenses imposed...
Sebastian Engelke (Université de Genève)
Toulouse: TSE, May 2, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5
Machine learning methods perform well in prediction tasks within the range of the training data. These methods typically break down when interest is in (1) prediction in areas of the predictor space with few or no training observations; or (2) prediction of quantiles of the response that go beyond...
Toulouse, May 2–3, 2024
Jiaying Gu (University of Toronto)
TSE, April 30, 2024, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
This paper provides a unified framework for partial identification of counterfactual parameters in a general class of discrete outcome models allowing for endogenous regressors and multidimensional latent variables, all without parametric distributional assumptions. Our main theoretical result is...
David Martinez-Miera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
April 30, 2024, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room 4GH & Online
We provide evidence that bank loan supply reactions to monetary policy changes are market-specific, emphasizing the importance of banks’ local specialization. We analyze the U.S. mortgage market and find that, when monetary policy eases banks increase new mortgage lending growth more in markets in...
