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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...
Shumiao Ouyang
Toulouse, 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
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...
