Calendrier du 27 février 2024
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 27/02/2024 de 17:00 à 18:00
R1-10
REITZMANN Léo (PSE)
Heterogeneous beliefs about climate change damages
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 27/02/2024 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01
DHINGRA Swati (LSE)
Citizen Training and the Urban Waste Footprint
écrit avec Fjolla Kondirolli and Stephen Machin
Waste management is key to the Sustainable Development Goal of making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Untreated waste contributes to methane emissions, groundwater pollution, marine litter and public health and safety hazards, and is a growing problem in cities in developing countries. Segregation of waste at the source of generation has been proposed as a low-cost solution for reducing the amount of waste that needs to be landfilled. This paper examines the potential of segregation and recycling at source in improving waste management in the city of Patna in India. Citizen training in circular economy principles of segregation at source and reduction, reuse and recycling of waste was implemented. The intervention was staggered over time to clusters of urban residences on routes covered by municipal waste trucks, in collaboration with the city administration. Waste observations were undertaken to examine the impacts of the training programme on waste practices. Segregation rates increased substantially among households that received the intervention, based on pre-post differences and staggered difference-in-differences estimates. The findings suggest that decentralised waste management can provide a low-cost solution for developing countries to reduce their waste footprint.
STEP (Seminar of Trade Economists in Paris)
Du 27/02/2024 de 13:00 à 14:00
R2-20
PARENTI Mathieu (PSE & INRAE)
An economic analysis of extra-territorial tax policy
écrit avec G. Zucman
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 27/02/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.21
BHERING Davi (PSE)
Luxurious Tax Cuts? Equity vs Efficiency of Indirect Taxation in India
écrit avec Pierre Bachas (ESSEC Business school) and Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
We study the equity-efficiency trade-off of differentiated commodity taxation in India. Combining monthly product level tax returns with sharp cuts to the tax rate of luxury goods, we show that (1) the sales of goods facing tax cuts only slightly rise; (2) firms do not substitute away close goods which did not face a rate cut, even for multi-product firms for whom mislabeling goods could be simple; (3) 60-80% of the tax cut is passed-through to consumers via lower prices. Contrary to common wisdom, we estimate a low efficiency cost of differentiated commodity tax rates and a high pass-through of tax cuts to consumers. In settings with constraints to direct taxes and transfers, higher indirect taxes on luxury goods could be desirable to achieve distributional goals.