Our weekly seminars, conferences, workshops, and other events organized or co-organized by Thema members.
This paper studies the impact of increasing minimum contract length on tenant stability and rental market outcomes. We exploit a 2019 reform in Spain that extended rental contracts from three to five years for individual landlords and to seven years for corporate landlords, using the universe of rental agreements in Catalonia (2016–2024) and a regression […]
Differentiated Products with Endogenous Choice Sets This paper extends the equilibrium model of Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (BLP, 1995) by endogeneizing the consumers’ choice sets. We introduce an entry stage preceding the Bertrand pricing game where firms choose which products to offer. We show that the demand and cost parameters are identified under selectively offered […]
On April 27, 2026, Grégory Verdugo will organize the REGINEQ Workshop at CY Cergy Paris University. The workshop marks the conclusion of the ANR project “Inégalités de revenu nationales et régionales : harmonisation et analyse de données de plusieurs pays.” It will present new research on the measurement and comparison of national and regional income […]
Room A402.
The seminar has been postponed to a later date.
Title : News Selection by News Aggregators and Incentives for Newspapers to Invest in Journalism: The Case of South Korea Abstract: We study news selection by two prominent Korean news aggregators. For this purpose, we collect all online news articles of 52 national newspapers from South Korea for the year 2015, along with all the […]
Algorithmic Transparency and Portfolio Choices: Field Evidence (with Alexis Direr and Mehdi Louafi) This paper studies whether profile-based explanations influence investors’ acceptance of algorithmic risk recommendations in a randomized controlled trial embedded directly in the platform’s interface of a leading French robo-advisor. Users were assigned either to see graphical explanations of the drivers underlying their […]
Fiscal Fragmentation and the Evolution of Global Misallocation Resource misallocation is central to development, yet distortions are typically unobserved. We measure and characterise the evolution of a major source of global misallocation using more than a century of field-level data on production, inputs, and tax payments in a single sector -- the global oil and […]
The Household Demand for Leisure, the Price of Time and the Full Cost of Children: A Structural Model and Evidence from the PSID Abstract: We propose a novel approach to estimating the full cost of children - the sum of monetary and time costs - by endogenizing the price of parental time rather than assuming […]
This workshop, held May 27-28 at CY Cergy-Paris University aims to explore and foster the cutting-edge applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Text Mining, Web Mining, Data Visualization, and other innovative techniques in all the fields of Economics. Econom'IA brings together researchers from the academic world as well as entrepreneurs that use innovative techniques to analyse […]
The Conference in Development and Climate Economics is jointly organised by SITES, AICC and the Fondazione Tor Vergata of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. It will be held at Villa Mondragone, Frascati, Rome, Italy, from May 27th to 29th, 2026 The accelerating climate crisis poses complex and uneven challenges for societies across the globe. Understanding […]
Title : Teacher Value Added and Higher Education Choices Abstract : We study the role of teachers in shaping students' higher education choices in France. Focusing on "principal" teachers, we estimate their value added across a range of outcomes capturing students' post-secondary decisions, drawing on administrative data on higher education choices from 2012 to 2022. […]
