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Shumiao Ouyang (Saïd Business School - University of Oxford)
Toulouse: TSE, March 1, 2024, 14:00–15:15, room Auditorium 4
This paper investigates how cashless payment affects credit access for the underprivileged using Alipay, a BigTech platform that offers various financial services to over 1 billion users. Leveraging a natural experiment and a representative Alipay user sample, I find that cashless payment adoption...
Charlotte Cavaillé
Toulouse: IAST, March 1, 2024, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
In 1925, of the 22 countries that could be classified as democracies, only four —France, Belgium, Portugal and Switzerland— had yet to extend suffrage to women. France is an intriguing exception: as a co-belligerent in WWI, the country experienced the type of social upheavals most commonly...
Rikke Riber Rasmussen
TSE & IAST, February 28, 2024, 12:30–13:30, Auditorium A4
Marten Van Oordt (Vrije UNiversiteit Amsterdam)
February 27, 2024, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room 4GH & Online
We study the desirability of programmable payments where transfers are automatically executed conditional upon preset objective criteria. Our results show that optimal payment arrangements for long-term economic relationships consist predominantly of simple direct payments. Direct payments increase...
Giulia Andrighetto (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of Italy)
Toulouse: IAST, February 27, 2024, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Global challenges like the climate crisis and pandemic outbreaks require collective responses that quickly adapt to changing circumstances. Social norms are potential solutions, but only if they are capable of adapting themselves. Despite a large literature showing the potential of social norms to...
Stefano Eusepi (UT-Austin)
February 13, 2024, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room 4GH & Online
Modern macroeconomic models impose a tight link between expected future short rates and the term structure of interest rates via the expectations hypothesis. Yet, the prevailing empirical evidence has shown the Expectations Hypothesis to be consistently rejected in the data. One possible...
Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse School of Economics)
February 8, 2024, 14:30–16:00, BDF, Paris, room 4 (espace conférence)
Jacopo Gambato (Mannheim University;ZEW, Mannheim)
February 6, 2024, 14:00–15:00
We analyze consumers’ voluntary information disclosure in a platform setting. For given consumer participation, the platform and sellers tend to prefer limited disclosure of consumer valuations, in contrast to consumers. With endogenous consumer participation, seller and platform incentives may be...
February 3, 2024, room Manufacture des tabacs
Cyril Hariton
Toulouse: TSE, February 1, 2024, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
Understanding how theoretical knowledge learned at the university can be applied in real-life situations can be challenging. This presentation aims to illustrate how economic methods can be used to assist clients facing competition challenges, using parts of two real-life cases Positive Competition...
