Calendrier du 06 février 2019
Development Economics Seminar
Du 06/02/2019 de 16:30 à 18:00
salle R2.01 Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
JAMISON Julian (University of Exeter Business School)
Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: Evidence from Simultaneous Field Experiments
écrit avec Varun Gauri, Nina Mazar, Owen Ozier, Shomikho Raha and Karima Saleh
Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in clinics in two Nigerian states, replicating the intervention—implemented by a single organization—on bureaucrats performing identical tasks in both states. Social recognition improved performance in one state but had no effect in the other, highlighting both the potential and the limitations of behavioral interventions. Differences in observables did not explain cross-state differences in impacts, however, illustrating the limitations of observable-based approaches to external validity.
Economic History Seminar
Du 06/02/2019 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MAIFREDA Germano (U. of Milano)
Using the Past, Building Trust Ethnicity, the Risorgimento, and the Relationship Lending between the Weill-Schott Bankers and Prime Minister Francesco Crispi in Nineteenth-Century Italy
This paper explores the relation between the Weill-Schott brothers’ private bank and Francesco Crispi (1818-1901), an architect of Italy’s unification in 1860 and one of the most important and controversial figures in modern Italian history. I mean to look into the modalities of building up, maintaining, and dissolving a fiduciary relationship which was, at once, private and professional; and illuminate some paths followed by the politician and his bankers in forming trustworthiness through a careful use of shared political experience (the Italian Risorgimento), Jewish 'ethnicity', and different layers of ‘familial' ties: biological, friendly, and Masonic.
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