Our weekly seminars, conferences, workshops, and other events organized or co-organized by Thema members.
Empowering Parents in the Digital Age While economic research documents substantial negative effects of social media on youth outcomes, the role of parents in mediating these effects remains largely unexplored. We propose digital parenting as a new form of human capital investment and test whether interventions can shift parents' beliefs and practices, as well as […]
Title: Efficiency in DeFi Lending: Interest Rate Mechanisms and Liquid Staking Abstract: Liquid staking, a notable recent innovation in decentralized finance (DeFi) allows to delegate and redeploy capital which was traditionally locked and has thus been promoted for its “capital efficiency” virtues. In the context of DeFi lending, we build a tractable general equilibrium model […]
Optimal Taxation of Undistributed Profits (with Etienne Lehmann) We study the optimal combination of corporate and dividend taxes when retained earnings can be used to avoid taxation. We show that eliminating dividend taxes while raising the corporate income tax can increase total revenue without affecting investment. Our simulations indicate revenue gains of 0.1–0.5\% of GDP. […]
Family Planning and Ethnic Heritage: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (with Arcangelo Dimico and Chiara Falco) Using ethnographic, ecological, and folklore data for sub-Saharan Africa, we investigate the role played by postpartum sexual abstinence, an extensively documented practice that in preindustrial societies finds its biological justification as a means to safeguard child survival. We show that […]
Redistributive Labor Income Taxation with Directed Technical Change in a Unionized Economy What are the implications of endogenous directed technical change for the design of redistributive income taxes in a unionized economy ? I study this within a general equilibrium framework featuring two types of labor that supply labor along the extensive margin. Wages are […]
Acquiring Patents in Secret: Disclosure Timing in Markets for Technology Markets for technology provide a vibrant channel through which firms purchase ownership rights to patented inventions. Although such transactions enable firms to secure access to intangible assets originating beyond their borders, they also provide cues to competitors regarding the purchasing firm’s technological investments. This study […]
Registration to the workshop is free but mandatory. Please make sure to register using this link before December 5 Program The workshop will be held on the CYU campus, in the Auditorium of the Maison de la Recherche SHS. 12:30-13:00: Welcome Buffet Lunch and Coffee 13:00-14:00: “Children are a Poor Women’s Wealth: How Inheritance Rights […]
Room A406.
Utilisation des technologies d’IA générative pour améliorer l’auto-formation des patients dans leur parcours de santé A406
La co-création à l’épreuve du temps : le cas de deux projets de développement de nouveaux produits sur la plateforme de co-création de Décathlon" Salle A403
Does employee ownership affect firm debt maturity? Evidence from French listed firms Room A406
Regards croisés des parties prenantes sur l’intelligence artificielle explicable dans les pratiques du recrutement Salle A423
