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Xavier Venel (LUISS Guido Carli University)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 mars 2025, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3
In many control problems there is only limited information about the actions that will be available at future stages. We introduce a framework where the Controller chooses actions a0, a1, ..., one at a time. Her goal is to maximize the probability that the infinite sequence is an element of a given...
Matias Cattaneo (Princeton University)
TSE, 11 mars 2025, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
Boundary discontinuity designs are used to learn about treatment effects along a continuous boundary that splits units into control and treatment groups according to their bivariate score variable. These research designs are also called Multi-Score Regression Discontinuity designs, a leading...
Kenza Benhima (Université de Lausanne;HEC, Lausanne)
TSE, 11 mars 2025, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
We examine the welfare-based opportunity cost of foreign exchange (FX) intervention when both CIP and UIP deviations are present. We consider a small open economy that receives international capital flows through constrained international financial intermediaries. Deviations from CIP come from...
Fiery Cushman (Harvard, United States)
Toulouse : IAST, 11 mars 2025, 11h30–12h30, salle Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Cumulative culture is a cornerstone of human intelligence. Currently, two models give contrasting explanations of how it works. According to one, humans build causal models and innovate by reasoning over them; culture acts as a repository of these accomplishments. According to another, humans...
Gaurab Aryal (Boston University)
TSE, 10 mars 2025, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
We consider the problem of aggregating individual preferences over alternatives into a social ranking. A key feature of the problems that we consider—and the one that allows us to obtain positive results, in contrast to negative results such as Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem—is that the alternatives...
Adelina Barbalau (University of Alberta)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 mars 2025, 12h30–14h00, salle Auditorium 6
We develop a theory of optimal security design for financing green investments in the presence of greenwashing. Green outcomes are uncertain and can be obtained through the implementation of tangible projects and/or intangible effort-based strategies. When manipulation is not possible, the optimal...
Ellen Bruno (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 mars 2025, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 4
Adaptation to environmental change can carry negative externalities. We document one such case: farmers in California respond to heat and drought by extracting more groundwater, harming access to drinking water for nearby residents. Using yearly variation we show that surface water scarcity and...
Farid Farrokhi (Boston College)
TSE, 7 mars 2025, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
This paper develops a framework for embedding carbon pricing policies into existing international trade agreements, which have historically evolved without consideration for climate change. Using a model of international trade with input-output linkages that incorporate detailed fossil fuel energy...
Maria Micaela Sviatschi
6 mars 2025, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
In this paper we study an alternative approach to reduce the expansion of criminal organizations: preventing gang recruitment at schools, where criminal organizations commonly target children. To do so, we exploit the staggered implementation of a preventive program in El Salvador that increased...
Pierre Le Bris (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)
Toulouse : TSE, 6 mars 2025, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3
Propagation of chaos is a phenomenon according to which, in a system of N interacting particles, two given particles become « more and more » independent as N goes to infinity. Proving such a phenomenon, with hopefully a quantitative rate, allows one to boil down the study of large systems of...
