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EQUIPRICE papers

The following papers benefited from the support of the ERC-sponsored project EQUIPRICE.

Working papers

Stable and extremely unequal. With Octavia Ghelfi and Marc Henry. Manuscript available on arxiv.

Published or forthcoming papers

Yogurts choose consumers? Identification of Random Utility Models via Two-Sided Matching. With Odran Bonnet, Yu-Wei Hsieh, Keith O’Hara, and Matt Shum. Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies. Available here.
A note on the estimation of job amenities and labor productivity. With Arnaud Dupuy. Forthcoming Quantitative Economics. Available here.
Cupid’s Invisible Hand: Social Surplus and Identification in Matching Models. With Bernard Salanié. Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies. Available here.
SISTA: learning optimal transport costs under sparsity constraints. With Guillaume Carlier, Arnaud Dupuy and Yifei Sun. Accepted for publication, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. Available here.
On the representation of the nested logit model. Accepted for publication, Econometric Theory. Available here.
Single market nonparametric identification of multi-attribute hedonic equilibrium models. With Victor Chernozhukov, Marc Henry, and Brendan Pass. Accepted for publication, Journal of Political Economy. Available here.
Fritz John’s equation in mechanism design (2021). Economic Theory Bulletin 9, pp. 1–5. Available here.
Taxation in matching markets. With Arnaud Dupuy, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Kominers. Forthcoming, International Economic Review. Available here.

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EQUIPRICE: Equilibrium methods for Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing. European Research Council consolidator grant (ERC-CoG) No. 866274, 2020-2025.

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EQUIPRICE code

TraMEPy Project

The TraME software (Transportation Methods for Econometrics, http://www.trame-project.com/) is a collection of libraries for solving problems of equilibrium computation and estimation in consumer demand and matching frameworks via the Mass Transportation Approach. It will be completely revamped to accommodate for the equilibrium flow problem in its full generality (beyond bipartite networks), novel equilibrium algorithms added, enhanced HPC capabilities, and a new Python implementation.

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EQUIPRICE: Equilibrium methods for Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing. European Research Council consolidator grant (ERC-CoG) No. 866274, 2020-2025.

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EQUIPRICE scientific agenda

The EQUIPRICE project seeks to build an innovative economic toolbox (ranging from modelling, computation, inference, and empirical applications) for the study of equilibrium models with gross substitutes, with applications to models of matching with or without transfers, trade flows on networks, multinomial choice models, as well as hedonic and dynamic pricing models. While under-emphasized in general equilibrium theory, equilibrium models with gross substitutes are very relevant to these problems as each of these problems can be recast as such.
Thus far, almost any tractable empirical model of these problems typically required making the strong assumption of quasi-linear utilities, leading to a predominance of models with transferable utility in applied work. The current project seeks to develop a new paradigm to move beyond the transferable utility framework to the imperfectly transferable utility one, where the agent’s utilities are no longer quasi-linear.
The mathematical structure of gross substitutes will replace the structure of convexity underlying in models with transferable utility.
To investigate this class of models, one builds a general framework embedding all the models described above, the “equilibrium flow problem.” The gross substitute property is properly generalized and properties (existence of an equilibrium, uniqueness, lattice structure) are derived. Computational algorithms that rely on gross substitutability are designed and implemented. The econometrics of the problem is addressed (estimation, inference, model selection). Applications to various fields such as labor economics, family economics, international trade, urban economics, industrial organization, etc. are investigated.
The project touches upon other disciplines. It will propose new ideas in applied mathematics, offer new algorithms of interest in computer science and machine learning, and provide new methods in other social sciences (like sociology, demography and geography).

Seven scientific challenges

Challenge 1. How to build a single framework to be able to reformulate matching models with or without (or with imperfect) transfers, hedonic models, models of multinomial choice, and models of international trade as problems of competitive equilibrium with gross substitutes?

Challenge 2. How to extend the framework investigated in challenge 1 to handle dynamic, Markov versions of these problems (both in the finite-horizon and stationary case)?

Challenge 3. How to extend the notion of gross substitutes to allow for the possibility of indifference between preferred alternatives, i.e. consider the case of set-valued excess demand / supply?

Challenge 4. Build and analyze a set of algorithms for the equilibrium problem with gross substitutes to handle the problems described in the previous Challenges.

Challenge 5. Implement these algorithms into a compiled, parallelized software library.

Challenge 6. Develop a novel inferential theory based on minimax regret estimation for the estimation of equilibrium models with Gross Substitutes, to handle inference in the previous problems.

Challenge 7. In the minimax regret estimation framework of challenge 6, extend the estimation and inference theory to handle sparsity constraints.

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EQUIPRICE: Equilibrium methods for Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing. European Research Council consolidator grant (ERC-CoG) No. 866274, 2020-2025.

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EQUIPRICE positions

Open positions

Post-doctoral researcher (TBA)

The post-doctoral researcher will be expected to contribute to the intellectual advancement of the project, interact with the PhD students, and participate in the organization of the seasonal events described below. The post-doctoral position is envisioned for four years; however, depending on individual circumstances, it may also be two consecutive two-year positions.

Two doctoral fellows

One doctoral fellow will have a focus on computational economics. The other doctoral fellow will focus on empirical economics.

Research assistants

March 14, 2021: Equiprice is looking for an intern in the field of data science and economics.

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EQUIPRICE: Equilibrium methods for Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing. European Research Council consolidator grant (ERC-CoG) No. 866274, 2020-2025.

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EQUIPRICE workshops

Upcoming workshops

Fall 2021: Workshop on optimal transport with applications to economics and statistics, blended, Sciences Po, Paris.

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EQUIPRICE: Equilibrium methods for Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing. European Research Council consolidator grant (ERC-CoG) No. 866274, 2020-2025.

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EQUIPRICE lectures

Upcoming lectures

February 26 2021, 2pm-4pm (Paris time): estimation of dynamic discrete choice problems

Speaker: Alfred Galichon

• Theory: Rust’s model; estimation; normalization issues
• Coding: maintenance choice.

March 12 2021, 2pm-4pm (Paris time): matrix games

Speaker: Alfred Galichon

• Theory: Nash equilibria; correlated equilibria; zero-sum games and LP formulation
• Coding: soccer data on penalty.

April 9 2021, 2pm-4pm (Paris time): kidney exchange problems

Speaker: Jules Baudet.

• Theory: Roth et al.
• Coding: an interactive multi-player simulator

Special lecture 5 (April 30, 2pm-4pm Paris time): traffic congestion

Speaker: Alfred Galichon

• Theory: Wardrop equilibria; price of anarchy
• Coding: traffic data.

Past lectures

February 5 2021, 2pm-4pm (Paris time): cloud computing

Speakers: Flavien Léger (Equiprice) and James Nesbit (NYU).

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EQUIPRICE: Equilibrium methods for Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing. European Research Council consolidator grant (ERC-CoG) No. 866274, 2020-2025.

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EQUIPRICE: Equilibrium methods for Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing

European Research Council consolidator grant (ERC-CoG) No. 866274, 2020-2025

CORE Equiprice team

Principal investigator:

Postdoctoral researchers:

Research assistants:

Jules Baudet (Masters student at ENS).
Projects: math+econ+code, equiprice lunches, replication, data analytics
Gabriele Buontempo (Masters student at Sciences Po). Projects: data analytics, dissemination
Nour Cherif (College student at Sciences Po). Projects: math+econ+code, dissemination
Akshaya Jose Devasia (Masters student at Sciences Po). Projects: math+econ+code, dissemination
Bastien Patras (Masters student at Sciences Po, Centrale-Supélec and ENS Paris-Saclay). Projects: replication, data analytics

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EQUIPRICE lunch seminars

Equiprice lunch seminars are hybrid (in person and / or virtual, depending on the COVID context) lunch seminars designed to serve as technical tutorials or presentation of work in progress in relation to the scientific agenda of the ERC-sponsored project EQUIPRICE. Unless noted ‘internals,’ seminars are public and open to all, but registration to the in person event is required 48 hours before.

Note: All times indicated on this page refer to the Paris time zone.

Upcoming talks:

Past talks:

  • February 10 2022, 12pm-1pm (online), Mert Unsal (Ecole Polytechnique) will present ‘running C++ on jupyter notebook: the xeus cling kernel’.
  • February 3 2022, 12pm-1pm (online), Professor Claire Mathieu (CNRS, Irif) will present “Stable Matching in Practice”.

  • ***Wednesday*** January 12 2022, *** 2pm-3pm *** (online), Dr. Antoine Jeanjean (OPT2A) will present “Operations research: a love story between mathematics and computer science.”
  • December 16 2021, 12pm (online), Dr. Denis Merigoux (INRIA) will present “Turning law into micro-simulation code with the Catala programming language”.

  • December 9 2021, 12pm (online), Anatole Gallouet (Grenoble INP) will present “Numerical resolution of semi-discrete Generated Jacobian equations”.

  • November 25 2021, 12pm (hybrid), Professor Benoit Rottembourg (INRIA) will present “Dynamic pricing: constraints, elasticity and algorithmic manipulation”. 
  • November 18 2021, 12pm (hybrid). Professor César Ducruet (Paris-Nanterre University) will present “Inter-city networks: a maritime perspective”.
  • October 7, 2021. Reading of Roth,  Rothblum and Vande Vate’s Stable Matchings, Optimal Assignments, and Linear Programming.
  • September 12 2021, 12:30pm. Pauline Corblet’s job market paper’s practice talk.
  • July 15 2021, 1pm. Loan Tricot on Bertsekas’ auction algorithm.
  • ***WEDNESDAY*** June 23 2021, ***12.30pm-2pm***. Pauline Corblet. Job market practice talk.
  • June 17, 1pm. Loan Tricot on “Reconstructing the order flow with optimal transport”.

  • June 3 2021, 1pm. Bastien Patras on BLP and MPEC.
  • *** Tuesday*** May 25 2021, 1pm. Reading of The Contraction Mapping Approach to the Perron-Frobenius Theory: Why Hilbert’s Metric?.
  • May 20 2021, 1pm (public). Professor Guillaume Carlier (Paris-Dauphine University), on “the linear convergence of the multi-marginal Sinkhorn algorithm.”
  • April 29 2021, 1pm. Reading of Bubeck and Cesa-Bianchi’s Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems  chapters 1-3.
  • April 15 2021, 1pm. Flavien Léger on Bregman divergence and gradient descent (part 2).
  • April 8 2021, 1pm. Flavien Léger on Bregman divergence and gradient descent (part 1).
  • March 25 2021, 1pm. Pauline Corblet on the link between Gale and Shapley and some iterative methods in applied mathematics.
  • March 18 2021, 1pm. Jules Baudet on course allocation mechanisms (continued).
  • March 4 2021, 1pm. Pauline Corblet on many-to-one matching problems.
  • February 18 2021, 1pm (public). Jules Baudet on course allocation mechanisms (continued).
  • February 11 2021, *** 5pm *** (public). Professor Xin Chen (University of Illinois) on S-convexity.
  • January 14 2021, 1pm (public). Flavien Léger on Chambolle-Pock.
  • January 7 2021, 1pm (public). Jules Baudet on “the multi-unit assignment problem: matching students to course schedules”.
  • December 10 2020, *** 5pm *** (public). Professor Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA) on optimal transport in asset pricing problems.
  • November 26 2020, 1pm (public). Flavien Léger on computing large-scale regularized optimal transport problems.
  • November 12 2020, 1pm. Alfred Galichon on ‘EQUIPRICE: research program and challenges’.
  • October 29 2020, 1pm (public). Jules Baudet will be presenting on ‘Cloud Computing and Containers part 3: Understanding Docker containers, continued’.
  • October 22 2020, 1pm (public). Jules Baudet will be presenting on ‘Cloud Computing and Containers part 2: Understanding Docker containers’
  • October 15 2020, 1pm (public). Jules Baudet on kidney exchanges.
  • October 8 2020, 1pm (public). Flavien Léger on ‘The back-and-forth method in optimal transport’
  • September 24 2020, 1pm (public). Jules Baudet on ‘Cloud Computing and Containers part 1: Understanding Docker containers’

Sponsored by the European Research Council grant EQUIPRICE

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European Research Council consolidator grant (ERC-CoG) No. 866274, 2020-2025

Funded by the EU

Project description

This project seeks to build an innovative economic toolbox (ranging from modelling, computation, inference, and empirical applications) for the study of equilibrium models with gross substitutes, with applications to models of matching with or without transfers, trade flows on networks, multinomial choice models, as well as hedonic and dynamic pricing models.  Applications to various fields such as labor economics, family economics, international trade, urban economics, industrial organization, etc. are investigated.

This project is hosted by the department of economics at Sciences Po.

The scientific agenda

The EQUIPRICE project is built upon a rigorous scientific agenda at the intersection of economics, data science, mathematics and computation. See here.

Events

EQUIPRICE Lunch Seminars

The EQUIPRICE team meets bimonthly on Thursdays for lunch seminars that hold in person or remotely to discuss research in progress by the team members, or summarize existing research on a topic. Occasionally, an external researcher is invited to present. Some of these meetings are public. See schedule here.

Seasonal events

Winter: ‘math+econ+code’ January masterclass

A ‘math+econ+code’ masterclass is held over one week in the month of January. Topics usually revolve around the economic applications of optimal transport. Find out more information here.

Spring: EQUIPRICE lectures

Topical lectures by EQUIPRICE team members and invited researchers are given during the Spring semester. See a schedule here.

Summer: ‘math+econ+code’ June masterclass

Another ‘math+econ+code’  masterclass is held in June, on a theme which is in general complementary to the January class, typically dealing with Walrasian equilibrium with gross substitutes. More information here.

Fall: EQUIPRICE workshops

A research workshop is organized yearly in the Fall. See a list of past and upcoming workshops here.

EQUIPRICE code & Papers

Open-source code is developed a product of the EQUIPRICE research effort. Find out more here.

Publicly available manuscript version of the papers written with the support of EQUIPRICE are listed here.

The team

The core EQUIPRICE team is made of a principal investigator, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate student assistants. Meet the equiprice team!

Job posting for the EQUIPRICE project are advertised here.

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