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Botond Koszegi (University of Bonn, Germany)
5 mars 2024, 16h00–17h15, salle Auditorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building)
Many consumers care about climate change and other externalities associated with their purchases. We analyze the behavior and market effects of such “socially responsible consumers” in three parts. First, we develop a flexible theoretical framework to study competitive equilibria with rational...
Gabrielle Fack (Paris School of Economics)
TSE, 5 mars 2024, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
This paper tests if and how students react to partial information provision in France’s centralized university admissions. We exploit the Orientation Active policy, which provides applicants to some non-selective programs with a negative, positive, or mixed assessment of their program-specific...
Michèle Tertilt (Mannheim University)
TSE, 5 mars 2024, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
During the first half of the 20th century, the US introduced state laws that imposed restrictions on women's labor market opportunities. This so-called `protective legislation' included minimum wage laws for women, maximum hours laws, requirements to provide chairs for female employees, and...
Rafael Jimenez-Duran (Bocconi University;Chicago Booth Stigler Center)
5 mars 2024, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For example, not using social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury brands can be associated with having a low social status. We show that, in the presence of such spillovers to non-users, standard...
Jose Gallegos Dago (Bank of Spain)
5 mars 2024, 11h30–12h30, BDF, Paris, salle 4GH & Online
vast literature has documented that US inflation persistence has fallen in recent decades, but this finding is difficult to explain in monetary models. Using survey data on inflation expectations, I document a positive co-movement between ex-ante average forecast errors and forecast revisions (...
Eeva Mauring (Bergen University)
TSE, 4 mars 2024, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
Consumer-tracking technology offers new tools for price discrimination in digital markets. We examine the impact of sellers using this technology to adjust prices according to a buyer’s prior search length in a competitive search market where buyers differ in patience. We find “Coasian equilibria”...
Cédric Perret (University of Lausanne)
Toulouse, 4 mars 2024, 14h00–15h15, salle Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
The sociopolitical organization of human societies has widely varied during human evolutionary history, ranging from relatively egalitarian small-scale societies to strongly hierarchical states. My research aims to understand the causes behind the rise or decline of political and economic...
Shumiao Ouyang (Saïd Business School - University of Oxford)
Toulouse : TSE, 1 mars 2024, 14h00–15h15, salle Auditorium 4
This paper investigates how cashless payment affects credit access for the underprivileged using Alipay, a BigTech platform that offers various financial services to over 1 billion users. Leveraging a natural experiment and a representative Alipay user sample, I find that cashless payment adoption...
Charlotte Cavaillé
Toulouse : IAST, 1 mars 2024, 12h45–13h45, salle Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
In 1925, of the 22 countries that could be classified as democracies, only four —France, Belgium, Portugal and Switzerland— had yet to extend suffrage to women. France is an intriguing exception: as a co-belligerent in WWI, the country experienced the type of social upheavals most commonly...
Rikke Riber Rasmussen
TSE & IAST, 28 février 2024, 12h30–13h30, Auditorium A4
