Calendrier du 28 mars 2023
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 28/03/2023 de 17:00 à 18:00
R1-13
DIAZ BOTIA Oscar Mauricio (PSE)
School Segregation and Social Cohesion
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 28/03/2023 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01
BORUSYAK Kirill (university College London)
Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks: Theory and Evidence from the United States
écrit avec R. Dix-Carneiro and B. Kovak
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 28/03/2023 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.21
MOREAU-KASTLER Ninon (ENS Paris-Saclay)
Due Diligence and Legal Havens: Conflict Minerals Exports in Africa’s Great Lake Region
This paper studies how « conflict minerals » trade flows react to due diligence policies imposing sourcing guidelines for importers, in the presence of legal havens. Dodd-Frank Act Conflict Mineral Rule (2010) imposed sourcing disclosure and name and shame for U.S. importers using 3T (tantalum, tin and tungsten) from conflict areas in Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring countries. Comparing treated 3T trade flows to non-treated products and non-treated exporters within the structural gravity framework, I find that this policy decreased DRC and neighbours 3T exports value, creating a new trade barrier for these exporters. However, 3T flows are diverted to legal havens. Legal havens are countries adopting laws allowing economic agents to « hide illicit activity and to exempt themselves from legal obligations linked to their economic activities ». After the Dodd-Frank Act, D.R.C. and neighboring countries export share of 3T to legal havens increases. 3T trade flows also increase from legal havens to the United States after 2010, which could point to regulation avoidance.