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Marieke Bos ( Stockholm School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 26 avril 2024, 14h00–15h15, salle Auditorium 4
. In the developed world, the diagnosis of mental illness is widespread among young adults. This paper estimates the long-term causal effects of being diagnosed during young adulthood for those at the margin of diagnosis. We follow all Swedish men born between 1971 and 1983 matched to...
Gabriel Peyré (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 avril 2024, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
Understanding the geometric properties of gradient descent dynamics is a key ingredient in deciphering the recent success of very large machine learning models. A striking observation is that trained over-parameterized models retain some properties of the optimization initialization. This “implicit...
Bruxelles, 25 avril 2024, 10h00
TBS Education, 25–26 avril 2024
Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache et Sylvain Chabé-Ferret
24 avril 2024, 18h00–19h00, salle Médiathèque José Cabanis, Toulouse
Yassine Lefouili
Toulouse, 24 avril 2024
Barbara Biasi (Yale University)
TSE, 23 avril 2024, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
This paper examines how political institutions shape the size and composition of educational spending in the U.S. We study the case of school capital investments, which are funded by bonds issued by school districts, subject to approval in local referenda for which ten states require a...
Laura Gati (ECB)
TSE, 23 avril 2024, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
Does the Federal Reserve follow a communication rule? We propose a simple framework to estimate communication rules, which we conceptualize as a systematic mapping between the Fed’s expectations of macroeconomic variables and the words they use to talk about the economy. Using text analysis and...
Charley Wu (University of Tübingen)
Toulouse : IAST, 23 avril 2024, 11h30–12h30, salle Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Compositionality and cumulative culture are two key aspects of human intelligence that have been separately referred to as being the "singular" factor that differentiates us from other animals and AI. While these two phenomena are usually studied in isolation, I will explore the role that...
Elizabeth Baldwin (Oxford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 avril 2024, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
Product-mix auctions are sealed-bid mechanisms for trading multiple units of multiple differentiated goods. They implement competitive-equilibrium allocations based on the preferences that participants express in an easy-to-use-and-understand geometric language. All concave substitutes (...
