Jump to navigation
Jason C.Y. Wong
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2024, 17h00–18h00, salle Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont
How do long-distance commercial flight links affect social connectedness? Using a novel quantitative measure of friendship links developed by Bailey et al. (2018), we study how aviation affects the social ties between U.S. regions and foreign countries. To address issues of endogeneity between...
Patrick Kehoe (Stanford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2024, 15h30–17h00, salle Auditorium 3salle Auditorium 3
Catherine Molho (Vrije UNiversiteit Amsterdam)
Toulouse, 21 mars 2024, 14h00–15h15, Auditorium 3 JJL, salle Auditorium 3 JJL
Regulating norm violations is key for the evolution and maintenance of large-scale human cooperation. Across societies, people are sometimes willing to punish norm breakers via direct confrontational tactics or via indirect means such as gossip and ostracism. At the same time, there is substantial...
Michael Carter (University of California - Davis)
21 mars 2024, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 4
Poverty reduction programs modeled on BRAC's graduation approach build up both tangible productive assets and intangible psychosocial assets such as self-confidence and the aspiration for upward mobility. The goal of this paper is to better understand how psychosocial factors operate and shape the...
Flore Sentenac (CREST, ENSAE)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2024, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
We investigate online maximum cardinality matching, a central problem in ad allocation. In this problem, users are revealed sequentially, and each new user can be paired with any previously unmatched campaign that it is compatible with. Despite the limited theoretical guarantees, the greedy...
Elena Pastorino (Stanford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mars 2024, 11h00–12h30, Auditorium 3, salle Auditorium 3
We develop a dynamic macroeconomic framework with worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and putty-clay adjustment frictions in order to study the distributional impact of labor market policies in the short and long run. Our model helps reconcile the tension between low short-run and high long-run...
Ingar Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics)
19 mars 2024, 16h00–17h15, salle Auditorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building)
Qualitative interviews are one of the fundamental tools of empirical social science research and give individuals the opportunity to explain how they understand and interpret the world, allowing researchers to capture detailed and nuanced insights into complex phenomena. However, qualitative...
Claudia Noack (University of Bonn, Germany)
TSE, 19 mars 2024, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
Empirical regression discontinuity (RD) studies often use covariates to increase the precision of their estimates. In this paper, we propose a novel class of estimators that use such covariate information more efficiently than the linear adjustment estimators that are currently used widely in...
Kevin Munger (Penn State University)
Toulouse, 19 mars 2024, 14h00–15h15, Auditorium 3 JJL, salle Auditorium 3 JJL
We demonstrate that fabricated videos of public officials synthesized by deep learning(“deepfakes”) are credible to a large portion of the American public – up to 50% of a representative sample of 5,750 subjects – however no more than equivalent misinformation in extant modalities like text...
Ciaran Rogers (HEC, Paris)
TSE, 19 mars 2024, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
This paper studies the role of local banking systems in the propagation of ECB Quantitative Easing (QE) programs. I firstly document that local deposit markets are fragmented across country lines, but the assets held by banks backing the deposits are in more integrated markets. I then consider a...
