Calendrier du 26 mars 2024
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 26/03/2024 de 17:00 à 18:00
R2-01
HERNáNDEZ MELIáN Beatriz (PSE)
Local Public Finance and Extreme Climate Events
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 26/03/2024 de 17:00 à 18:00
Zoom
WAMBUGU NDIRANGU Anthony (University of Nairobi)
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Paris Trade Seminar
Du 26/03/2024 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01
CONCONI Paola (Oxford)
A Political Disconnect? Evidence From Votes on EU Trade Agreements?
écrit avec Florin Cucu, Federico Gallina, and Mattia Nardotto
It has been argued that public engagement in democracies has declined in the last decades due to a growing disconnect between citizens and their representatives. The European Union is a case in point, if not the most prominent example of an institution seen as suffering from a “democratic deficit”. Even the directly elected members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are often accused of being disconnected from the interests of European citizens. However, little is actually known about whether European legislators respond to their voters’ interests when making critical policy choices. We address this question by studying the determinants of MEPs’ votes on the approval of EU trade agreements. Against widespread Eurosceptic arguments, we find that these votes reflect the trade policy interests of MEPs’ constituencies. The results are robust to controlling for a rich set of variables and fixed effects to account for potential confounding factors, and using different sets of votes and econometric methodologies. An instrumental variable approach supports a causal interpretation of our findings.
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STEP (Seminar of Trade Economists in Paris)
Du 26/03/2024 de 13:00 à 14:00
R1-13
ANDRIEU Elodie (PSE)
Multi-establishment Firm Structure, Subsidies and Spillovers
écrit avec John Morrow
How do firms diffuse resources, and does this result in spillovers far from headquarters? We show subsidies induce French firms to hire new workers, mainly in new establishments and often in new commuting zones, with little evidence of reallocation. The most hiring responsive occupations are techies and support workers in line with R&D targeting. We estimate a subsidy employment spillover elasticity of .11 at the commuting zone level within industry, but weak effects in the commuting zone. Dispersed industries have half this elasticity and concentrated industries twice this elasticity. While subsidies are awarded to headquarters in advanced areas, firms redistribute effects more broadly.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 26/03/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.21
ELISEEVA Vitaliia ()
The New Soviet Woman: Long-term influence of WW2-induced changes in sex ratios on family formation
Using local variation in 17 million World War II military deaths in the USSR, I show that war-driven male scarcity led to a long-term increase in the marriage rates and decrease in the single parenting by females. Using survey data, I document that modern-day attitudes towards the importance of family formation and gender roles in the family are more conservative in historically more male-scarce localities. To explain why my main result goes against the literature, I show that it can be explained by both high pre-war Female Labor Force Participation and low post-war migration. Additionally, I present the evidence suggesting that new gender norms diffused vertically from parents to children rather than horizontally in affected locations.