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Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
Toulouse : IAST, 12 mars 2024, 11h30–12h30, salle Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
What are the sources of social divisions? Many empirical and experimental studies show that social divisions negatively impact economic outcomes. This experiment reverses the causal arrow and asks if economic settings affect how individuals perceive one another. Subjects receive information about...
Matthew Mitchell (Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto)
TSE, 11 mars 2024, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
We study a social media platform that is monetized through selling “verified” status to content providers. Providers on the platform come in two types, ones that are valued by content consumers and ones that are not. Providers value attention from consumers; consumer attention depends on a producer...
Gabriela Demarchi (CIRAD, UMR CIRED)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 mars 2024, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 4
In Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, incentive payments conditional on zero deforestation do not always match the time profile of landowners' opportunity costs. In this study, we examine the impact of adding some flexibility to PES contracts to allow landowners the possibility of...
David Thesmar (MIT)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 mars 2024, 14h00–15h15, salle Auditorium 4
Since 1967, all French firms with more than 100 employees have been required to share a fraction of their excess-profits with their employees. Through this scheme, firms with excess-profits distribute on average 10.5% of their pre-tax income to workers. In 1990, the eligibility threshold was...
Philipp Koch (Université Toulouse I Capitole - TSE-R)
Toulouse : IAST, 8 mars 2024, 12h45–13h45, salle Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Can we use data on the biographies of hundreds of thousands of historical figures to estimate the GDP per capita of countries and regions? Here we introduce a machine learning method to estimate the GDP per capita of dozens of countries and hundreds of regions in Europe and North America for the...
Iona-Elena Oana (European University Institute)
Toulouse, 8 mars 2024, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3 JJ LAFFONT
In recent years the EU and its member states have faced a series of major crises and threats. On the one hand, the asymmetric effects of these crises can fuel between-country and within-country divisions, triggering discontent and protest, and undermining the legitimacy of the EU and of national...
Ellen Ryan (ECB)
7 mars 2024, 14h30–16h00, Bdf, Paris, salle 4 (espace conférence)
Daniel Redhead (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Toulouse, 7 mars 2024, 14h00–15h15, salle Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
The evolution of inequality is a topic of perennial interest across the social, behavioural and evolutionary sciences. Major advances have been made on the cultural and ecological conditions, and individual differences that produce inequality in access to social, informational and material...
Olivier Faugeras (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 mars 2024, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
The evaluation and comparison of risks are basic tasks of risk analysis in Insurance and Finance. In this talk, we show how Optimal Transportation can be employed for this purpose. The first approach, based on {1], considers that risk is a relative notion between two distributions, quantifying...
Rodrigo Soares (INSPER)
7 mars 2024, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
We study a Force-down/Shoot-down intervention in Brazil that led drug-traffickers to shift from air to river routes when transporting cocaine produced in the Andes. Using a unique database with cocaine production, homicides, and the network of rivers in the Amazon, we provide evidence that violence...
