Calendrier du 20 novembre 2019
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 20/11/2019 de 17:00 à 19:00
Salle R1.10 Campus Jourdan, 48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
BONHOURE Emilie (Kedge Business School )
ATELIER DFIH : Emilie Bonhoure sur les règles de distribution des profits
Development Economics Seminar
Du 20/11/2019 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2.01 Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
DE ROCHAMBEAU Golvine (Sciences Po Paris)
Access-to-demand Frictions and Firm Growth: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
écrit avec Jonas Hjort and Vinayak Iyer
We hypothesize that many productive firms in poor countries stagnate due to informational barriers to accessing existing demand. To investigate, we gave a randomly chosen subset of Liberian firms the opportunity to participate in a seven day-long training program. The program exclusively teaches how to bid on contracts from large buyers that are awarded through a formal procurement process. Overall, the program increased the number of bids firms submit; the total number and quality of contracts won; and the number of contracts won through other channels than a formal bidding process. We then show via a regularization procedure that, relative to otherwise similar firms, the impact of the program is especially large for firms that use the Internet at baseline. We interpret these results through a simple theoretical framework in which a “keys-to-the-door” training program facilitates firms’ growth by boosting their ability to win contracts they bid on, and firms that face lower costs of finding and selecting appropriate contracts to bid on—for example those that use the Internet—benefit more. This interpretation is supported by the way in which the differential impact of the program for firms that use the Internet varies with the share of tenders for contracts published after treatment that are published online. In sum this paper’s findings suggest that, to grow, firms need both knowledge of how to win contracts and the technology necessary to cost-effectively access demand.
Economic History Seminar
Du 20/11/2019 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
ALSAN Marcella (HARVARD Kennedy School)
The Rise and Fall of the Know Nothing Party
écrit avec Greg Niemesh and Katherine Eriksson
The Know-Nothing Party was the first major nativist political party in U.S. History. It swept to power in the 1850s on a staunchly anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic platform. In this paper, we discuss the postulated factors that played a role in the rise of the Know-Nothings -including three factors closely related to the influx of low-skill Irish immigrants: (1) labor market competition (2) fiscal burden on the state and (3) the enfranchisement and voting behavior of foreigners with competing allegiances. We also examine the role of structural change in the economy and the shift to factory production. Evidence suggests that, while both sets of factors played a role, labor market competition and industrialization were of particular importance. Our research contributes to scholarship on the politics of populism and deepens our understanding of what fuels cycles of anti-immigrant behavior.