Calendrier du 11 octobre 2023
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 11/10/2023 de 16:30 à 17:30
R2-01
ROGGE Lisa (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Institute of Economics)
Cost and Medical Uncertainty in Health Care Seeking
Cost and medical uncertainty in health care seeking (joint work with Alina Imping and Andreas Landmann)
Health care decisions are sometimes a matter of life and death, but also their financial consequences can be disastrous for many households around the world. While one can imagine how the fear of making an expensive mistake may deter households from making otherwise sensible health care choices, there is almost no scientific evidence on the importance and joint role of medical and financial uncertainty. In this paper, we first provide theoretical insights based on simulation exercises and develop a novel measurement instrument for medical and cost uncertainty using health vignettes. Initial analyses from data collected using this instrument with low-income households in Pakistan reveal that on top of many biases, both medical as well as cost uncertainty in health care decisions exist and may deter sensible health investments. As our results indicate potentially large dividends to providing accurate information, we are currently running an extended vignette survey that includes an RCT component with interventions targeted at changing medical and cost uncertainty separately and jointly.
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 11/10/2023 de 16:00 à 17:00
R1-16
BITTMANN Simon ()
Financing Exploitation. Colonial Capitalism and the Indochina Rubber (1916-1939)
Economic History Seminar
Du 11/10/2023 de 12:00 à 13:30
R1.09
CASTILLO GARCíA César (The New School for Social Research & PSE)
How Was Neoliberal Hegemony Constructed? Policy Networks and Free-Market Institutions in Peru (1930-1990)
écrit avec César Castillo-García (The New School for Social Research & PSE) with Luan Sánchez-Pérez (Universidad del Pacífico)
This paper analyzes the existent bonds between Peruvian experts and the transnational neoliberal network of the Walter Lippmann Colloquium/Mont Pèlerin Society during 1930-1990. We rely upon qualitative sources (member directories, institutional affiliations, board memberships) to construct a non-exhaustive database of 388 actors belonging to 295 relevant institutions for the period under study. Then, we apply social network analysis techniques to explore and visualize the nexus between personalities and organizations that pushed the free-market agenda and reacted to profit cycles in Peru during different historical periods that we call waves of neoliberalization. Our results demonstrate an increase in the participation of domestic actors in the Peruvian neoliberal network. Hence, six Peruvian intellectuals played the role of brokers transmitting the neoliberal discourse among different institutional settings: Pedro Beltrán, Rómulo Ferrero, Jacobo Rey Elmore, Roberto Abusada, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Likewise, this paper shows the organizational structure transmitting free-market ideas in Peru was heterogeneous and included government agencies, business associations, high-ed institutions, the press, and the Catholic Church. These findings demonstrate that organized actions of intellectuals, technocrats, and politicians have made neoliberal legacies prevail in the Peruvian public sphere during the second half of 20th century.