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Chiara Zanardello
Toulouse : IAST, 14 novembre 2025, 12h45–13h45, salle Auditorium 6 (Third Floor - TSE Building)
While good ideas can emerge anywhere, it takes a community to develop and disseminate them. In premodern Europe (1084-1793), there were approximately 200 universities and 150 academies of sciences, which were home to thousands of scholars and created an extensive network of intellectual exchange....
Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics)
13 novembre 2025, 11h30–12h30, BDF, Paris
The thesis of this essay is that, in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics, the assumption of rational expectations about equilibrium prices is unrealistic and should be replaced. Rational expectations imply that decision makers forecast equilibrium prices like interest rates by forecasting cross-...
Amma Panin (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
13 novembre 2025, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
Ethnonationalist governments frequently adopt policies that challenge the status of ethnic minorities as equal members of the nation. We propose that such policies – even when purely symbolic – have tangible consequences for the groups they target through a previously understudied channel. Exposure...
Martin Mugnier (Paris School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 novembre 2025, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 6
We consider the problem of performing inference on the mathematical expectation of unknown quantile-cdf transforms of a random variable. A prominent instance where this problem arises is the Changes-in-Changes model for causal inference developed by Athey and Imbens (2006), in which the average...
Zhijun Chen (Monash University)
TSE & IAST, 12 novembre 2025, 12h30–13h30, Auditorium 4
This paper develops a theoretical model to study how data monetization influences digital innovation and competition in data-driven mergers. Data monetization generates additional revenue for digital firms but imposes privacy costs on consumers, and heterogeneity in these costs reshapes market...
12–15 novembre 2025
Anna Russo (Harvard University)
TSE, 10 novembre 2025, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
Market mechanisms aim to reduce environmental degradation at low cost, but they are undermined when participants’ conservation actions are not marginal to the incentive — or “additional” — as the lowest-cost participants may not be the highest social value. We investigate this challenge in the...
Anne Degrave
Toulouse : IAST, 7 novembre 2025, 12h45–13h00, salle Auditorium 4 (First Floor - TSE Building)
Why do elites choose to support or undermine a nascent democracy, and are voting rights and civil liberties similarly threatened in this process? To explain the historical emergence and stabilization of the first wave of European democracies, a vast political economy literature has emphasized the...
Stefan Pollinger (SciencesPo)
TSE, 7 novembre 2025, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 4
The German solar programme was a very prominent example of a deployment subsidy for a nascent green technology. To contain its substantial fiscal costs, the subsidy was nonlinear in the capacity of adopted solar panels. This paper finds that an optimal nonlinear schedule could further decrease...
Renjie Bao (Princeton University)
6 novembre 2025, 14h00–15h00, Zoom, salle Zoom
I study self-control problems in media consumption and their amplification by short-form content. Using microdata from a U.S. short drama series, I show viewers watch 23 episodes (82%) more than intended and overspend by $5.51 (23%). A structural model reveals that temptation lasts an average of 6....
