Calendrier du 15 octobre 2019
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 15/10/2019 de 17:00 à 18:00
VANNIER Brendan ()
Dark clouds hanging over economic activity: Novel elements for a typology of crisis, discontinuities and volatility
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 15/10/2019 de 16:30 à 19:00
PSE, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris, Salle R1-09
BATISTA Catia(Nova School of Business and Economics.)
TURATI Riccardo (UCLouvain)
Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 15/10/2019 de 14:30 à 16:00
Maison des Sciences Economiques, Université Paris 1, 106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital, 75013 Paris (M° Campo-Formio), salle du 6ème
GROSSMAN Gene (Princeton)
The 'New' Economics of Trade Agreements: From Trade Liberalization to Regulatory Convergence?
écrit avec Phillip McCalman, and Robert W. Staiger
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 15/10/2019 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CARPETTINI Bruno (University of Zurich )
The electoral impact of wealth redistribution: Evidence from the Italian land reform
écrit avec Lorenzo Casaburi
Governments often implement large-scale redistribution policies to gain political support. However, little is known on whether such policies generate sizable gains, whether these gains are persistent, and why. We study the political consequences of a major land redistribution program in Italy. Using a panel spatial regression discontinuity design, we show that the reform generated large electoral gains for the incumbent Christian Democratic party, and similarly large losses for the Communist party. The electoral effects persist over four decades, during a period in which the agricultural sector shrank dramatically. We explore several mechanisms for this persistence. Analysis of fiscal transfers, public sector employment, and referendum outcomes suggests that the reform initiated a repeated exchange: the incumbent party continued promoting the interests of treated towns even after the land redistribution ended and the voters continued supporting this party. Additional analysis finds less support for other potential mechanisms, including voters' long-term memory, changes in voters' beliefs, and mechanical correlation in voting over time.