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Joseph Gagnon (PIIE)
9 mars 2023, 11h30–12h30, BDF, Paris, salle C021 & Online
For about 25 years before the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation was very low and stable in most advanced economies. A little noticed dark side of this impressive achievement is that unemployment rates were almost always higher than needed to keep inflation low. This widespread and persistent policy...
Joseph Salmon (Université de Montpellier)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 mars 2023, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3
In supervised learning – for instance in image classification – modern massive datasets are commonly labeled by a crowd of workers. The obtained labels in this crowdsourcing setting are then aggregated for training. The aggregation step generally leverages a per worker trust score. Yet, such worker...
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Federal Reserve Board;CEPR)
8 mars 2023, 11h00–12h00, BDF, Paris, salle C021 & Online
We provide a framework for understanding banks’ demand for central bank reserves. The main reserve demand drivers are: The spread between market rates and the interest rate on reserves, banks’ liquidity needs (implying that reserves generate a convenience yield), and bank balance sheet costs. Given...
Roger Koenker (University College, London)
TSE, 7 mars 2023, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
7 mars 2023, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
Biased recommendations arise naturally in a market with heterogeneous consumers: a seller oers a product to a mix of consumers who can purchase through an intermediary or directly from a seller. \Picky" consumers are uncertain about match quality, which they observe only after purchase, while \...
Iris Lorscheid (University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE))
Toulouse : IAST, 7 mars 2023, 11h30–12h30, salle Auditorium 4 (First floor TSE building)
Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a modeling technique to analyze complex systems by simulating the interactions of individual agents with their surroundings. ABM enables the simulation of complex systems with emergent properties resulting from agent interaction. The modeling approach can be used to...
Fiona Burlig (Chicago University)
Toulouse : TSE, 6 mars 2023, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 4
Electricity blackouts impose substantial costs on developing countries. We advance a new explanation for their continued prevalence in India, the world’s third-largest power sector. Constructing a novel dataset spanning the sector, we demonstrate that wholesale power demand is downward-sloping:...
Yale School of Management - Connecticut, du 23 février, 09h00 au 24 février 2023
Madrid, 21 février 2023
Tembinkosi Bonakele (South African Competition Commission )
Toulouse : TSE, 17 février 2023, 15h30–17h30, salle Auditorium 4
South Africa is a country with history of racial and economic exclusions, and now ranks as the most unequal in the world. In adopting its competition law South Africa sought to balance the efficiency and equity issues. The provision of the law follow the normal competition tests, such as the rule...
