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Marcelle Chauvet (University of California, Riverside, CA, USA)

June 16, 2026, 11:30–12:30, Banque de France, room Online and in Room 4

This paper examines the impact of geopolitical risks (GPR) on oil price volatility over the past three decades, using specifications that capture both long-term patterns and short-term disruptions during periods of stability and crisis. In particular, we analyze oil price volatility’s response to...

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Alberto Acerbi (University of Trento)

Toulouse: IAST, June 16, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 5 (Second floor - TSE Building)

Most research on social media considers them as supports for transmission of information, explaining online success (and pathologies) by focusing on consumers’ biases and interests. In my talk I will present a different perspective, applying ideas from an ecological approach to culture to social...

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Auditoriums A3-A4, June 16–17, 2026

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Kevin Grieco

Toulouse: IAST, June 12, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)

Weak states often coexist alongside non-state traditional political institutions (TPIs) in "dual polities," where citizens maintain simultaneous social contracts with both state and non-state authorities. While it is well known that state-building transforms individuals' relationship with the state...

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Antoine Chambaz (Université Paris Cité)

Toulouse: TSE, June 11, 2026, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5

A medical policy can help personalize treatment recommendations based on patients' characteristics. Classical definitions of such policies are often grounded in a causal framework involving a single clinical outcome. In the common setting where several outcomes must be considered simultaneously,...

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Nour Meddahi

June 11, 09:00 to June 12, 2026, 17:00, room Auditorium Jean-Jacques Laffont

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Rebecca Saxe (MIT)

Toulouse: IAST, June 9, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building)

In human society, punishment can sometimes teach and enforce social norms of behavior, but other times backfires and undermines the authority's legitimacy. These seemingly contradictory effects of punishment can only be understood by considering the cognitive processes in the minds of human...

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Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh)

Toulouse: TSE, June 9, 2026, 11:00–12:15, room Audtorium 5

We study the role of informational complexity on the higher-order rationality of agents in Bayesian games of incomplete information. In a class of dominance solvable Bayesian chain games, we find evidence that informational environments that rely on more private information, and are therefore more...

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June 9–10, 2026, room Auditorium A4

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Emilio Calvano (LUISS)

TSE, June 8, 2026, 15:30–17:00, room Auditorium 4

We present a methodology for analyzing the impact of algorithmic recommendations on product market competition, addressing concerns that have been raised in both academic and policy circles regarding their potential anti-competitive effects. Our analysis demonstrates that recommender systems (RSs)...

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