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Sydney Levine (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Toulouse: IAST, May 16, 2023, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
One of the most remarkable things about the human moral mind is its flexibility: we can make moral judgments about cases we have never seen before.Yet, on its face, morality often seems like a highly rigid system of clearly defined rules. Indeed, the past few decades of research in moral psychology...
Franck Portier (Toulouse School of Economics;UCL)
May 16, 2023, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room 4 Espace Conférence & Online
The way monetary policy is conducted is a key element in New Keynesian models, and crucially determines allocations’ properties. We show that assuming monetary authorities follow a Taylor rule may bias estimation of New Keynesian type models for two reasons. The first one is theoretically trivial,...
Xavier Gabaix (Harvard University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 16, 2023, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 6
We propose a theory of the complexity of economic decisions. Leveraging a macroeconomic framework of production functions we conceptualize the mind as a cognitive economy, where a task’s complexity is determined by its composition of basic cognitive operations, such as information retrieval and...
Marleen Marra (SciencesPo)
TSE, May 15, 2023, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
This paper explores the welfare impacts of introducing a market-based mechanism for the allocation of scarce airport take-off and landing slots. Instead of the usual revealed preference approach that recovers values from optimal bids, slot values are obtained as the incremental profit that an...
Josh Graff Zivin (University of California, San Diego)
Toulouse: TSE, May 15, 2023, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
We examine how exogenous changes in exposure to air pollution over the past two decades have altered the disparities in home values between Black and White homeowners. We find that air quality capitalization rates are significantly lower for Black homeowners. In fact, they are so much lower that,...
Esteban Aucejo (Arizona State University)
TSE, May 15, 2023, 09:30–10:50, room Auditorium 6
Balancing the demands of employment and schooling is a challenging task for an increasing number of students who have to pay their way through college. However, flexible learning and working environments could play an important role in easing many of the frictions associated with performing both...
TSE, May 15–17, 2023
Paris, Sciences Po, May 15–16, 2023
Stefano Lovo
Toulouse: TSE, May 12, 2023, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
Can a self-proclaimed socially responsible fund (SRF) improve social welfare despite its primary goal of asset accumulation? We consider a general equilibrium model with emissionnegative externalities, financial intermediation, and investors who care about both pecuniary and non-pecuniary...
Anne Degrave (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse)
Toulouse: IAST, May 12, 2023, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
What happens when states invest to acquire systematic information on citizens? Building land cadasters is an important way through which historical states have attempted to collect taxes more efficiently and to enforce property rights. However, there is little rigorous empirical evidence on the...
