Calendrier du mois de septembre 2024
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Semaine du 2024-01-22 au 2024-01-28 |
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 26/01/2024 de 13:00 à 14:00
R1-09
PAREDES-CASTRO Héctor (PSE)
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Du 25/01/2024 de 16:00 à 17:00
R1.14
VIALLET - THEVENIN Scott ()
"Le réseau des grandes entreprises coloniales françaises de 1885 à 1939"
JOB MARKET
Du 25/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:45
R2-01
WIDMER Philine (PSE)
Is propaganda front-page news?
Thursday, January 25th, R2-01, 12.30pm-1.45pm
Econometrics; Law and Economics; Public Economics; Political Economy
Is propaganda front-page news?
Paris Migration Economics Seminar
Du 25/01/2024
Keynote: Toman Barsbai (Bristol University), "Humans as animals: The natural geography of economic behavior" (with A. Pondorfer )
Lucile Dehouck (PSE), "Thirsting for Solutions: the Impact of Water Scarcity on Migration in Ethiopia"
Clément Imbert (Sciences Po), "Floating population: migration with(out) family andthe spatial distribution of economic activity" (avec J. Monras, M. Seror, Y. Zylberberg)
Antony Edo (CEPII), "Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants" (avec G. Borjas)
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 24/01/2024 de 16:00 à 17:30
R1.10
ABE DE Jong (University of Groningen)
Why are corporations terminated?
écrit avec Christopher L. Colvin,Philip T. Fliers,Florian Madertoner
We identify all 196 Dutch exchange-listed corporations that halted their operations and ceased to
exist between 1903 and 1996. We then explain these terminations using unique hand-collected
accounting and governance data and novel regression techniques that allow us to conduct long-run
comparative analysis. Dutch bankruptcy laws remained remarkably stable during this period. The
main termination method used was shareholder-induced voluntary liquidation until WWII, and
creditor-instigated bankruptcy thereafter. We argue this shift was a consequence of a change in the
societal purpose of the corporation: the results of our binomial regression analysis is consistent with
the idea that a stakeholder-focused paradigm replaced the liberal shareholder-centric paradigm
among the Netherlands’ business elites in the decades following WWII. Our results demonstrate how
a change in corporate purpose has profound consequences, even when legal institutions remain
unchanged.
JOB MARKET
Du 24/01/2024 de 13:00 à 14:15
R2-21
SCHULZE TILLING Anna (University of Bonn)
Changing consumption behavior with carbon labels: Causal evidence on behavioral channels and effectiveness
Wednesday, January 24th, R2-21, 1pm-2.15pm
Environmental; Ag. Econ.; Experimental Economics; Public Economics; Behavioral Economics
Changing consumption behavior with carbon labels: Causal evidence on behavioral channels and effectiveness
Anna SCHULZE TILLING (University of Bonn)
Economic History Seminar
Du 24/01/2024 de 12:00 à 13:30
R1.09
ALFANI Guido(Bocconi University )
ALFANI Guido(Bocconi University )
The rich and the top wealth shares: a long-term perspective
Over the last ten years or so, many efforts have been made at reconstructing measures of economic inequality (including top shares of wealth and/or income) for a growing range of preindustrial societies, especially but not exclusively in Europe. The seminar will offer an updated overview of this research, focusing on the rich – but it will go beyond a presentation of top wealth shares per se, seeking an answer to a broader range of questions. Who were the rich, in history, and how did they obtain their wealth? Did they play the same role in society, and were they perceived in the same manner, in the past as today? And are changes in the perception of the rich across history somewhat connected to the extent of their wealth, in absolute and/or in relative terms?
The seminar will build upon a recently published book, As Gods Among Men. A History of the Rich in the West (Princeton 2023), which highlights —despite the different paths to wealth in different eras— fundamental continuities in the behavior of the rich and public attitudes towards wealth across Western history. It also offers a novel perspective on current debates about wealth and income disparity.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 23/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2-21
DE MEULENAER Chloe (LSE)
Family first? Persuasion, polarisation, and the inheritance tax
Despite its redistributive potential and rather widespread support among economists, the inheritance tax regularly proves to be one of the most unpopular taxes. In this project, I explore this unpopularity and the effectiveness of different arguments to move preferences. I run a survey experiment on a sample of the French population and expose respondents to one of two quotes: a Fairness argument, stating that the inherited wealth distribution is starkly unequal, and a Family argument, celebrating the inherent right of parents to transfer the fruit of their hard work to their children. First, I find that self-interest plays a minor role in explaining support for the inheritance tax, and that support is very politically polarised, more so than for other taxes. Second, using text analysis methods on respondents' answers to an open-ended question, I find that the Family argument is way more prevalent in respondents' first thoughts about the tax, and that it gathers more support than the Fairness argument. Third, I find that despite this support, the Family argument does nothing to move preferences of respondents, while the Fairness argument significantly increases support for the tax. That increase is concentrated among left-wing and centre respondents, and especially strong among respondents who mention distributional concerns in their answers to the open-ended question. I suggest that those effects can be explained by a form of saturation of the Family argument; by comparison, the Fairness argument reinforces the support of those who already agree with it, increases the support of those who feel they lack information, without antagonising those who disagree with it. Taken together, these results highlight the importance of distinguishing between arguments that are top-of-mind and those that are persuasive; and that on a heated, polarised topic like that of the inheritance tax, economic arguments may still be more effective than emotional ones.
JOB MARKET
Du 23/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:45
R2-01
ROLDAN BLANCO Pau (Banco de España)
Dual Labor Markets and the Equilibrium Distribution of Firms
Tuesday, January 23th, R2-01, 12.30pm-1.45pm
Development; Growth; Industrial Organization; Macroeconomics; Monetary; Computational Economics
Dual Labor Markets and the Equilibrium Distribution of Firms