Calendrier du mois de mai 2017
Economic History Seminar
Du 31/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
SPITZER Yannay (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Pale in Comparison The Economic Ecology of the Jews as a Rural Service Minority
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Du 31/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
SPITZER Yannay (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Pale in Comparison The Economic Ecology of the Jews as a Rural Service Minority
écrit avec Felix MEIERZU SELHAUSEN & Remi JEDWAB
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 30/05/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
Salle R1-16, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CASANUEVA ARTIS Annalí (PSE)
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Paris Trade Seminar
Du 30/05/2017 de 14:30 à 16:00
Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01
MORROW Peter (U. of Toronto)
* Endowments, Factor Prices, and Skill-Biased Technology: Importing Development Accounting into HOV
écrit avec Daniel Trefler (Toronto)
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 30/05/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
RUEDA Valeria (Oxford)
Sex and the Mission : the conflicting long-term effects of missionary activity on HIV prevalence
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 29/05/2017 de 17:00 à 18:30
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DUTTA Bhaskar (U of Warwick)
Coalition formation with history dependence
écrit avec joint with Hannu Vartiainen
Abstract. Farsighted formulations of coalitional formation, for instance by Harsanyi (1974) and Ray and Vohra(2015), have typically been based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern (1944) stable set. These farsighted stable sets use a notion of indirect dominance in which an outcome can be dominated by a chain of coalitional ‘moves’ in which each coalition that is involved in the sequence eventually stands to gain. Dutta and Vohra(2016) point out that these solu- tion concepts do not require coalitions to make optimal moves. Hence, these solution concepts can yield unreasonable predictions. Dutta and Vohra (2016) restricted coalitions to hold common, history independent expectations that in- corporate optimality regarding the continuation path. This paper extends the Dutta-Vohra analysis by allowing for history dependent expectations. The pa- per provides characterization results for two solution concepts corresponding to two versions of optimality. It demonstrates the power of history dependence by establishing non-emptyness results for all finite games as well as transferable utility partition function games. The paper also provides partial comparisons of the solution concepts to other solutions.
Régulation et Environnement
Du 29/05/2017 de 12:00 à 14:00
Salle R1-15, Nouveau Bâtiment, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
GAVAZZA Alessandro (London School of Economics)
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Development Economics Seminar
Du 24/05/2017 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard jourdan, 75014 paris
MEGHIR Costas (Yale University)
Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Colombia
écrit avec Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons and Marta Rubio-Codina
Abstract
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention
in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a
sample of disadvantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline. We estimate the
determinants of material and time investments in these children and evaluate the im-
pact of the treatment on such investments. We then estimate the production functions
for cognitive and socio-emotional skills. The effects of the program can be explained
by increases in parental investments, which have strong effects on outcomes and are
complementary to both maternal skills and child's baseline skills.
Economic History Seminar
Du 24/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
VON GLAHN Richard (UCLA)
Modalities of the fiscal state in imperial China in comparative perspective
Du 24/05/2017
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 23/05/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ARTOLA Miguel (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Executive Remuneration in Europe: From gentlemanly capitalism to the rise of the super-manager (1920-2000)
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 22/05/2017 de 17:00 à 18:30
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
GUO Yingni (Northwestern)
The Interval Structure of Optimal Disclosure
écrit avec Eran Shmaya
Abstract
A sender persuades a receiver to accept a project by disclosing information regarding
a payoff-relevant state. The receiver has private information about the state, referred
to as his type. We show that the sender-optimal mechanism takes the form of nested
intervals: each type accepts on an interval of states and a more optimistic type’s in-
terval contains a less optimistic type’s interval. This nested-interval structure offers
a simple algorithm to solve for the optimal disclosure and connects our problem to
monopoly screening problems. The mechanism is optimal even if the sender conditions
the disclosure mechanism on the receiver’s reported type.
GSIELM (Graduate Students International Economics and Labor Market) Lunch Seminar
Du 22/05/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
Salle S/19, MSE, 106 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris
WIBAUX Pauline (Paris 1 - PSE)
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Régulation et Environnement
Du 22/05/2017 de 09:00 à 13:00
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 paris
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 18/05/2017 de 15:45 à 17:00
Salle R2-21, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
GALO Nuno ()
“Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents.”
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 18/05/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
salle R1-11, campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, Paris 14e
PEJSACHOWICZ Leonardo (Paris 1)
Breadth versus Depth.
Abstract.
We consider a fundamental trade-off in search: when choosing between multiple unknown alternatives, is it better to learn a little about all of them (breadth) or a lot about a single one (depth)? In choice settings where a distribution is exogenous, we find that breadth is optimal for ``small'' problems and that depth is optimal for ``large'' ones. But in IO settings, where firms endogenously choose distributions, we find breadth to be always optimal. Finally, we consider extensions to fat-tails and correlation, and find that in these extensions, breadth is superior.
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 18/05/2017 de 13:00 à 14:15
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DURANTON Gilles (Wharton)
Measuring the cost of congestion in a highly congested city: Bogotá
écrit avec Prottoy A. Akbar
We provide a novel approach to estimate the deadweight loss of congestion. We implement it for road travel in the city of Bogotá using information from a travel survey and counterfactual travel data generated from Google Maps. For the supply of travel, we find that the elasticity of the time cost of travel per unit of distance with respect to the number of travellers is on average about 0.06 for our area of study. It is close to zero at low levels of traffic, then reaches a maximum magnitude of about 0.20 as traffic builds up and becomes small again at high levels of traffic. This finding is in sharp contrast with extant results for specific road segments. We explain it by the existence of local streets which remain relatively uncongested and put a floor on the time cost of travel. On the demand side, we estimate an elasticity of the number of travellers with respect to the time cost of travel of 0.40. Although road travel is costly in Bogotá, these findings imply a small daily deadweight loss from congestion, equal to less than 1% of a day’s wage.
Behavior seminar
Du 18/05/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle R2-01, Nouveau Bâtiment, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
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Economic History Seminar
Du 17/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ALVAREDO Facundo (PSE)
Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century
écrit avec Anthony B. Atkinson, and Salvatore Morelli
Du 17/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 16/05/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MONTALBO Adrien (SUSSEX)
The influence of economic activities on primary schools presence in the early nineteenth-century France
Du 16/05/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
Salle R2-07, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 16/05/2017 de 16:30 à 19:00
Salle R1-16, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BERTOLI Simone(Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, CERDI, IZA, ICM)
PAILLACAR Rodrigo(Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Migration and co-residence choices
Human capital externalities, trade openness and migration in Brazil
écrit avec Elie Murard
Human capital externalities, trade openness and migration in Brazil
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 16/05/2017 de 14:30 à 16:00
Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01
DONALDSON Dave (MIT & CEPR)
*“Sector-Level Economies of Scale: Estimation Using Trade Data”.
écrit avec D. Bartelme (Michigan), A. Costinot (MIT) and A. Rodriguez-Clare (Berkeley)
PEPES (Paris Empirical Political Economics) Working Group
Du 16/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle H201, Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris
MICHALOPOULOS Stelios (Brown University)
The Consequences of Emigration during the French Revolution in the Short and Longue Duree
écrit avec Raphael Frank
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Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 16/05/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
GASPARE TORTORICI (Trinity College Dublin)
Globalisation, agricultural markets, and mass emigration, 1876 - 1912
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 15/05/2017 de 17:00 à 18:30
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
SAMUELSON Larry (Yale)
Agreeing to Disagree in Large Worlds
écrit avec Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler
Du 15/05/2017 de 12:00 à 14:00
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BERTHOD Mathias (PSE, Paris I)
Smart tariff for smart customers? Evidences from the lab and A bargaining agreement between non-renewable resource producers: stability versus asymmetry
A bargaining agreement between non-renewable resource producers: stability versus asymmetry
Régulation et Environnement
Du 15/05/2017 de 12:00 à 14:00
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BERTHOD Mathias(PSE, Paris I)
MAYOL Alexandre(PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne )
A bargaining agreement between non-renewable resource producers: stability versus asymmetry
Within a linear quadratic differential game framework with economic depletion inspired by Salo and Tahvonen (2001), we use recent results of Reddy and Engwerda (2013) to characterize a Pareto optimal bargaining agreement between two non-renewable resource producers. The main result is that incentive to cartelize will depend on the symmetry of the producers. In contrast to Salo and Tahvonen, we find that the concentration in supply could then increase over time while countries have more and more interest to bargain.
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 12/05/2017 de 12:45 à 13:45
R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
JOHN Anett (CREST&ENSAE)
Maintaining Repayment Discipline while Reducing Peer Pressure in Microfinance: Repayment Flexibility vs Social Insurance
brown bag Travail et Économie Publique
Du 11/05/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
Salle R1-09, Nouveau Bâtiment, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MORENO Heddie (PSE)
The effect of grandparents’ schooling on their children’s and grandchildren’s outcomes
This paper exploits a natural experiment from an armed conflict that occurred in Mexico in 1926 to provide causal evidence on the multi-generational transmission of human capital across three generations. The study uses a unique survey that gathers retrospective information on a national representative sample of adults and their children. The analysis allows comparing medium and long-run trends of economic mobility along the 20th century and provides useful policy insights for the design of anti-poverty programs aiming to cope with the adverse effects of armed conflict under an inter-generational perspective. Results show significant effects of the grandmothers’ education (instrumented with exposure to the conflict) on their children’s years of schooling, grade repetition and earnings. The influence of the grandparents’ educative legacy remains at least until the second generation, particularly for the granddaughters’ schooling. This indicates that the persistence of some part of the current inequality can be traced back to at least three generations.
PEPES (Paris Empirical Political Economics) Working Group
Du 11/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Sc Po - TBD
WACZIARG Romain (UCLA)
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Du 11/05/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
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Du 11/05/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
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NGOs, Development and Globalization
Du 09/05/2017 de 14:30 à 17:30
Campus Jourdan (nouveau bâtiment) 48, boulevard Jourdan - 75014 Paris - Salle R1-16
14:30-15:20 Gaëlle Balineau (AFD - French Development Agency)
Title to be confirmed
15:20-16:10 Vera Danilina (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
”Trade Integration, and the Polarisation of Eco-labelling Strategies”
16:10-16:40 Coffee Break
16:40-17:30 François Libois (Paris School of Economics)
NGOs as commitment device for rent-seeking governments”
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 09/05/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MONTALBAN-CASTILLA José (PSE)
The role of need-based grants on higher education achievement
Little evidence exists on the specific contribution of performance-based incentive components to the effect of need-based financial aid on student's outcomes. This paper aims at elucidate the causal effect of financial aid on the academic performance of low-income students in higher education, using administrative micro-data from Carlos III University of Madrid. Under the propitious Spanish national means-tested grant program, I am able to disentangle the impacts from two different grant schemes with different intensities of performance-based incentives. I use the sharp discontinuities that are induced by family income thresholds to estimate the effect of being eligible to different categories of scholarships, and exploit the fact that academic performance requirements (i.e. having passed a certain number of credits in the previous academic year) became more stringent for students who applied for the Spanish need-based grant after 2012. I find no effects of the large means-tested grant on students' academic performance with weak achievement component. However, I find positive effects on students' academic performance when the achievement component is more demanding, for those students who are more entitle to the grant. Students' also enhance their fraction of turned-up exams and their average GPA on subjects showed-up to final exam. No evidence is found on students' subjects selection and dropout effects that might contaminate the results.
EPCI (Economie politique du changement institutionnel) Seminar
Du 05/05/2017 de 11:00 à 12:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 04/05/2017 de 13:00 à 14:15
Campus Jourdan, Salle R1-09 (48, blv Jourdan-75014 Paris)
TRANNOY Alain ()
Health, Working Time and Growth: The American Puzzle
écrit avec T. Lefur
Du 04/05/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
Salle R2-07, Nouveau Bâtiment, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Behavior seminar
Du 04/05/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle R1-15, Nouveau Bâtiment, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
GALLO Edoardo (Université de Cambridge)
Financial Contagion in Networks: A Market Experiment
écrit avec Syngjoo Choi & Galloy Brian Wallace
EPCI (Economie politique du changement institutionnel) Seminar
Du 04/05/2017 de 11:00 à 12:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Development Economics Seminar
Du 03/05/2017 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BACHAS Pierre (ESSEC, EU Tax Observatory )
Banking on Trust: How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More
écrit avec Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins & Enrique Seira
Abstract
Trust is an essential element of economic transactions, but trust in financial institutions is
especially low among the poor. Debit cards provide not only easier access to savings, but also
a mechanism to monitor bank account balances and thereby build trust. We study a natural
experiment in which debit cards are rolled out to beneficiaries of a Mexican conditional cash
transfer program whose benefits are directly deposited into a savings account. Using adminis-
trative data on over 340,000 bank accounts over four years, we find that prior to receiving a
debit card, beneficiaries do not save in these accounts. After receiving a debit card, beneficiaries do not increase their savings for the first 9_12 months, but after this their savings increase over time. During this initial period, however, they use the card to check their balances frequently; the number of checks decreases over time as their reported trust in the bank increases. Using household survey panel data, we find the observed effect represents an increase in overall savings. After 1_2 years, the debit card causes the savings rate to increase by 3_5 percent of income.
Economic History Seminar
Du 03/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
RAFF Dan (Wharton)
The Book Trade in America: Some Business and Economic History of Twentieth-Century American Culture I. Preliminary Matters and Culture, Reading, and Books as a Business
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 02/05/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
Salle R2-07, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BARRERA Oscar (PSE)
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Du 02/05/2017 de 16:30 à 19:30
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MURTIN Fabrice(OECD)
BEKKOUCHE Yasmine (PSE)
Inequalities in longevity by education in OECD coutries: Insights from new OECD estimates
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 02/05/2017 de 14:30 à 16:00
MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, salle du 6ème étage) 75013 Paris
BOSKER Maarten (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Iceberg transport costs in the Frozen Water Trade
écrit avec Eltjo Buringh
Iceberg transport costs are one of the main ingredients of modern trade
and economic geography models: transport costs are modelled by assuming
that a fraction of the goods shipped "melts in transit''. In this paper,
we investigate whether the iceberg assumption applies to the costs of
transporting the only good that literally melts in transit: ice. Using
detailed information on Boston's worldwide nineteenth-century Frozen
Water Trade, we show that iceberg transport costs in practice were a
combination of a true ad-valorem (iceberg) cost: melt in transit, and
per unit freight and (off)loading costs. The physics of the melt process
and the practice of insulating the ice in transit imply an immediate
violation of the iceberg assumption: shipping ice is subject to
economies scale.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 02/05/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BEKKOUCHE Yasmine (PSE)
The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France, 1993-2014
écrit avec Julia Cagé (Sciences Po Paris)
Du 02/05/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
MURTIN Fabrice(OECD)
BEKKOUCHE Yasmine (PSE)
On the Evolution of Party Financing in France, 1976-2014
écrit avec Julia Cagé