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Daniel Redhead (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Toulouse, March 7, 2024, 14:00–15:15, room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
The evolution of inequality is a topic of perennial interest across the social, behavioural and evolutionary sciences. Major advances have been made on the cultural and ecological conditions, and individual differences that produce inequality in access to social, informational and material...
Olivier Faugeras (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, March 7, 2024, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
The evaluation and comparison of risks are basic tasks of risk analysis in Insurance and Finance. In this talk, we show how Optimal Transportation can be employed for this purpose. The first approach, based on {1], considers that risk is a relative notion between two distributions, quantifying...
Rodrigo Soares (INSPER)
March 7, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
We study a Force-down/Shoot-down intervention in Brazil that led drug-traffickers to shift from air to river routes when transporting cocaine produced in the Andes. Using a unique database with cocaine production, homicides, and the network of rivers in the Amazon, we provide evidence that violence...
Botond Koszegi (University of Bonn, Germany)
March 5, 2024, 16:00–17:15, room Auditorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building)
Many consumers care about climate change and other externalities associated with their purchases. We analyze the behavior and market effects of such “socially responsible consumers” in three parts. First, we develop a flexible theoretical framework to study competitive equilibria with rational...
Gabrielle Fack (Paris School of Economics)
TSE, March 5, 2024, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
This paper tests if and how students react to partial information provision in France’s centralized university admissions. We exploit the Orientation Active policy, which provides applicants to some non-selective programs with a negative, positive, or mixed assessment of their program-specific...
Michèle Tertilt (Mannheim University)
TSE, March 5, 2024, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
During the first half of the 20th century, the US introduced state laws that imposed restrictions on women's labor market opportunities. This so-called `protective legislation' included minimum wage laws for women, maximum hours laws, requirements to provide chairs for female employees, and...
Rafael Jimenez-Duran (Bocconi University;Chicago Booth Stigler Center)
March 5, 2024, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For example, not using social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury brands can be associated with having a low social status. We show that, in the presence of such spillovers to non-users, standard...
Jose Gallegos Dago (Bank of Spain)
March 5, 2024, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room 4GH & Online
vast literature has documented that US inflation persistence has fallen in recent decades, but this finding is difficult to explain in monetary models. Using survey data on inflation expectations, I document a positive co-movement between ex-ante average forecast errors and forecast revisions (...
Eeva Mauring (Bergen University)
TSE, March 4, 2024, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
Consumer-tracking technology offers new tools for price discrimination in digital markets. We examine the impact of sellers using this technology to adjust prices according to a buyer’s prior search length in a competitive search market where buyers differ in patience. We find “Coasian equilibria”...
Cédric Perret (University of Lausanne)
Toulouse, March 4, 2024, 14:00–15:15, room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
The sociopolitical organization of human societies has widely varied during human evolutionary history, ranging from relatively egalitarian small-scale societies to strongly hierarchical states. My research aims to understand the causes behind the rise or decline of political and economic...
