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Bruxelles, April 25 to April 25, 2024
TBS Education, April 25–26, 2024
Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, and Sylvain Chabé-Ferret
April 24, 2024, 18:00–19:00, room Médiathèque José Cabanis, Toulouse
Yassine Lefouili
Toulouse, April 24 to April 24, 2024
Barbara Biasi (Yale University)
TSE, April 23, 2024, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
This paper examines how political institutions shape the size and composition of educational spending in the U.S. We study the case of school capital investments, which are funded by bonds issued by school districts, subject to approval in local referenda for which ten states require a...
Laura Gati (ECB)
TSE, April 23, 2024, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
Does the Federal Reserve follow a communication rule? We propose a simple framework to estimate communication rules, which we conceptualize as a systematic mapping between the Fed’s expectations of macroeconomic variables and the words they use to talk about the economy. Using text analysis and...
Charley Wu (University of Tübingen)
Toulouse: IAST, April 23, 2024, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Compositionality and cumulative culture are two key aspects of human intelligence that have been separately referred to as being the "singular" factor that differentiates us from other animals and AI. While these two phenomena are usually studied in isolation, I will explore the role that...
Elizabeth Baldwin (Oxford University)
Toulouse: TSE, April 23, 2024, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
Product-mix auctions are sealed-bid mechanisms for trading multiple units of multiple differentiated goods. They implement competitive-equilibrium allocations based on the preferences that participants express in an easy-to-use-and-understand geometric language. All concave substitutes (...
Marek Jarocinski (ECB)
April 23, 2024, BDF, Paris
Joseph Harrington (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, April 22, 2024, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
The development of algorithmic pricing has led to a growing market in the supply of pricing algorithms by data analytic companies. While there is an efficiency rationale for a firm outsourcing its pricing decision, anticompetitive concerns have been expressed when competitors in a market adopt a...
