Calendrier du 21 septembre 2021
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 21/09/2021 de 17:00 à 18:15
On line
MOBARAK Musfiq (Yale University)
The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar
écrit avec with C. Austin Davis, Paula Lopez- Pena and Jaya Wen
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 21/09/2021 de 17:00 à 18:00
BONNEAU Cécile (PSE)
Unequal access to higher education based on parental income: evidence from France
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 21/09/2021 de 14:45 à 16:15
Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405
GRASSI Basile (Bocconi University - CEPR)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Markup Estimation
écrit avec Maarten De Ridder and Giovanni Morzenti
How do estimates of firm-level markups that rely on production function estimations depend on common data limitations? With a tractable analytical framework, simulation from a quantitative model, and firm-level administrative production and pricing data, we study biases due to the use of revenue instead of quantity, and due to production function misspecification. Estimates from revenue mismeasure the level of markups, but do contain useful information about true markups. Conversely, misspecified production functions have little effect on the estimated average markup but reduce their information content. Finally, revenue and quantity markups display similar correlations with variables such as profitability and market share in our data.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 21/09/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
GUILLOT Malka ()
Is Charitable Giving Political? New Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Returns
écrit avec Julia Cagé
What are the determinants of philanthropic and political giving? Are donations to charities and parties driven by the same incentives? In this article, we use new administrative household panel data to quantify empirically the motivations for giving, depending on donors’ characteristics and tax incentives. Our dataset includes all the households filling their income tax and/or their wealth tax returns in France between 2006 and 2019. In France, both charitable and political donations benefit from income tax deductions, but only the charitable ones are eligible to the wealth tax credit. We exploit the 2018 wealth tax reform – a change in the taxable base that led to a drop by two thirds in the number of liable households – to estimate the cross-price elasticity of charitable and political giving at different levels of the income and wealth distributions. We provide new evidence of substituability between charitable and political donations: according to our estimates, a one-percent increase in the price of charitable giving leads to a 19 to 25% increase in political donations. The magnitude of this effect is particularly strong among the top 20% of the wealth taxpayers.