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Claire Celerier (Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 novembre 2024, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 6
A long time series of individual faculty wages across public and private four-year institutions in the U.S. and Canada reveals increasing pay heterogeneity across disciplines, with economics - and especially finance - emerging as well-compensated fields. We identify a causal relationship between...
22 novembre 2024, 12h45–13h45, Toulouse : IAST
Samantha Burn (Imperial College London, Business School)
TSE, 22 novembre 2024, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
What is public health insurance for? The health policy community have long diverged from economists on this fundamental issue. Health policy frames insurance as promoting access to care, especially for the poor who cannot otherwise afford it. Economists frame insurance as a financial product,...
David Laborde (FAO)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 novembre 2024, 17h00–18h00, salle Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
Gérard Biau (Sorbonne Université)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 novembre 2024, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3
Deep learning has become a prominent approach for many applications, such as computer vision or neural language processing. However, the mathematical understanding of these methods is still incomplete. A recent approach is to consider neural networks as discretized versions of differential...
Guido Friebel (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
21 novembre 2024, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
Using rich data on personnel records, work assignments, and performance in a finan- cial institution, we uncover the mechanisms leading to promotion gaps in knowledge teamwork. We find a substantial promotion gap for women in early career stages. Analyzing over 10,000 investment projects reveals...
Dita Eckardt (Warwick University)
TSE, 19 novembre 2024, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
Apprenticeships play a key role in enabling successful school-to-work transitions in many countries but, in the presence of imperfect information, the specificity of this type of training may entail important costs for those working outside their training fields. I study this issue in one of the...
Wolfgang Lemke (ECB)
19 novembre 2024, 13h45–14h45, BDF, Paris, salle Salle 5GH and online
High excess liquidity – the amount of central bank reserves held by commercial banks over and above minimum reserve requirements – in the euro area interbank market tends to push money market rates down towards the deposit facility rate at which banks can park overnight liquidity with the European...
Nenad Kos (Bocconi University)
TSE, 18 novembre 2024, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
The model considers a monopolist who optimally chooses the design and price of a product on the Hotelling line. We characterize the set of prices and consumer surplus that can arise in the model across all distributions of tastes. In a stark departure from the monopoly model without product design...
Alessio Ozanne (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 novembre 2024, 12h30–14h00, salle Auditorium 5
Should credit scoring algorithms be transparent or opaque? I study this question in a model where the lender uses data shared by borrowers for pricing and rationing credit, and is privately informed about the data-generating process, on which he tailors his algorithm. I show that revealing the...
