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Roberto Galbiati (SciencesPo)
14 mars 2024, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
We study the impact of the Roman Inquisition on science during the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. A structural model of occupation and location decisions enables the quantification of causal mechanisms and counterfactual historical experiments in a setting where a reduced-...
Principat d'Andorra, 14–15 mars 2024
Kinshuk Jerath
TSE & IAST, 13 mars 2024, 12h30–13h30, Auditorium A4
“Retail media” refers to ads served to consumers on retailers’ websites. From being essentially non-existent a decade ago, this market is projected to grow to $100 billion by 2026 in the US, which would be more than 20% of all US ad spend. Retail media has important implications for advertisers (...
Francisco Garrido (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM))
TSE, 12 mars 2024, 15h30–17h00, salle Auditorium 4
I use an Iterated Strict Dominance (ISD) argument to build bounds on the distribution of outcomes of games and use them to pin down an identified set for the parameters of interest. These bounds (ISD Bounds) are robust to equilibrium multiplicity, pure and mixed, and to any non-equilibrium play as...
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...
