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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
Marten Van Oordt (Vrije UNiversiteit Amsterdam)
27 février 2024, 11h30–12h30, BDF, Paris, salle 4GH & Online
We study the desirability of programmable payments where transfers are automatically executed conditional upon preset objective criteria. Our results show that optimal payment arrangements for long-term economic relationships consist predominantly of simple direct payments. Direct payments increase...
Giulia Andrighetto (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of Italy)
Toulouse : IAST, 27 février 2024, 11h30–12h30, salle Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Global challenges like the climate crisis and pandemic outbreaks require collective responses that quickly adapt to changing circumstances. Social norms are potential solutions, but only if they are capable of adapting themselves. Despite a large literature showing the potential of social norms to...
Stefano Eusepi (UT-Austin)
13 février 2024, 11h30–12h30, BDF, Paris, salle 4GH & Online
Modern macroeconomic models impose a tight link between expected future short rates and the term structure of interest rates via the expectations hypothesis. Yet, the prevailing empirical evidence has shown the Expectations Hypothesis to be consistently rejected in the data. One possible...
Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse School of Economics)
8 février 2024, 14h30–16h00, BDF, Paris, salle 4 (espace conférence)
Jacopo Gambato (Mannheim University;ZEW, Mannheim)
6 février 2024, 14h00–15h00
We analyze consumers’ voluntary information disclosure in a platform setting. For given consumer participation, the platform and sellers tend to prefer limited disclosure of consumer valuations, in contrast to consumers. With endogenous consumer participation, seller and platform incentives may be...
3 février 2024, salle Manufacture des tabacs
