Calendrier du mois de septembre 2024
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Semaine du 2024-09-30 au 2024-10-06 |
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 04/10/2024 de 13:00 à 14:00
R1-09
NORITOMO Yuma (Cornell University)
Does the Timing of Productivity Shocks in Childhood Affect Educational Attainment?
EU Tax Observatory Seminar
Du 04/10/2024 de 12:00 à 13:00
R1-14
LANGENMAYR Dominika (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Navigating the Amazon: The Incidence of Digital Service Taxes
Large digital firms pay little profit tax in many countries, prompting several countries to introduce digital services taxes on these firms to indirectly tax their profits. We study the incidence of digital service taxes using data on Amazon, the largest online retailer. We find that Amazon increased its fees by almost the exact amount of the digital service tax. Firms using Amazon as a platform have largely been able to pass these increased costs onto consumers. On average, the incidence of digital service taxes falls almost entirely on consumers, though there is significant heterogeneity among countries.
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 03/10/2024 de 16:00 à 17:15
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21
BAYER Christian (U Bonn)
Distributional Dynamics
écrit avec Luis Calderon, University of Bonn and Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim CEPR, and IZA
We develop a new method for deriving high-frequency synthetic distributions of con-
sumption, income, and wealth. Modern theories of macroeconomic dynamics identify the
joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth as a key determinant of aggregate
dynamics. Our novel method allows us to study their distributional dynamics over time.
The method can incorporate different microdata sources, regardless of their frequency and
coverage of variables, to generate high-frequency synthetic distributional data. We extend
existing methods by allowing for more flexible data inputs. The core of the method is to
treat the distributional data as a time series of functions that follow a state-space model,
which we estimate using Bayesian techniques. We show that the novel method provides
the high-frequency distributional data needed to better understand the dynamics of con-
sumption and its distribution over the business cycle
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PEPES (Paris Empirical Political Economics) Working Group
Du 03/10/2024 de 12:30 à 13:45
R2-01
GIRAY AKSOY CEVAT ((EBRD & Kings College London))
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TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 03/10/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
R1-14
VELLODI Nikhil (PSE)
A Theory of Self-Prospection
écrit avec Polina Borisova (PSE)
A present-biased decision maker (DM) faces a two-armed bandit problem whose risky arm generates random payoffs at exponentially distributed times. The DM learns about payoff arrivals through informative feedback. At the unique stationary Markov perfect equilibrium of the multi-self game, positive feedback supports greater equilibrium welfare than both negative and transparent feedback. Regardless of the form of feedback, the DM's behavior exhibits indecision, deriving from their desire to procrastinate. We relate our findings to the theory of {it self-prospection} --- the process of imagining future goals and outcomes when seeking motivation in the present.
Behavior seminar
Du 03/10/2024 de 11:00 à 12:00
R2-21
CALCAGNO Riccardo (Politecnico di Torino)
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Behavior Working Group
Du 03/10/2024 de 10:00 à 11:00
R2-21
DAGORN Etienne (INED)
The Roots of Gendered Behaviour : online experiment with teachers
Evidence shows that teachers interact differently with boys and girls, grade them differently and provide different feedback and career advice. These gendered teaching practices have significant effects on boys' and girls' school achievement and educational choices, especially in scientific subjects where strong gender stereotypes prevail. However, little is known about the behavioral roots of such gendered practices. We first develop a theoretical model to rationalize teachers' potential gendered behaviour. We then empirically test those mechanisms using an online experiment with secondary education teachers from several subjects. Teachers are asked to evaluate fictitious school transcripts for which we randomly change the information displayed, namely the student's gender (to measure the extent of their gendered practices). Then, they are invited to play a set of gender-blind and gender-revealed dictator games (to measure gender identity) and to take an implicit association test (to measure gender implicit biases). The preliminary results will be presented during the talk.
Development Economics Seminar
Du 02/10/2024 de 16:30 à 18:00
R2-01
VOENA Alessandra (Stanford University)
Traditional Institutions in Modern Times: Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate
écrit avec Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, Corinne Low
This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India – dowry
– can enable male migration by increasing liquidity at the time of marriage. We
hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support
structures, where sons co-reside with parents and care for them in their old age.
Dowry can attenuate this cost by providing sons and parents with a liquid transfer
that eases constraints on income sharing. To test this, we collect two novel datasets
on property rights over dowry among migrants and among families of migrants. Net
transfers of dowry to a man’s parents are common. Consistent with using dowry
for income sharing, transfers occur more when sons migrate, especially when they
work in higher-earning occupations. Nationally representative data confirms that
migration rates are higher in areas with stronger historical dowry traditions. Finally,
exploiting a large-scale highway construction program, we show that men from areas
with stronger dowry traditions have a higher migration response to a reduction in
migration costs. Despite its potential negative consequences, dowry may play a role
in facilitating migration and therefore, economic development.
Economic History Seminar
Du 02/10/2024 de 12:30 à 14:00
R1-09
SARKAR Jayita ( University of Glasgow)
An Anti-Decolonization Bloc. Rössing in Apartheid Namibia
Transnational capital developed Ro?ssing Uranium Limited in South Africa-controlled apartheid Namibia in the 1960s and 1970s. While official newspapers in Windhoek claimed that Ro?ssing was an outcome of renewed hopes of a nuclear energy renaissance after the 1973 oil shock, a closer look at the archives presents a different story. As international pressure increased on the South African government to relinquish its illegitimate control of Namibia—— evident in the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion in June 1971, activism of Sean MacBride as the UN Commissioner for Namibia, and the UN Decree 1 of December 1974—— foreign mining companies increased their extractivism of Namibian natural resources, including uranium. Fearing that an independent and universal Namibia would evict them, these companies began overmining, exporting raw materials and continuing to dispossess Black labor. Ro?ssing was similar but different: it was a combination of the old and the new. Built through majority funding from the Anglo- Australian Rio Tinto Zinc along with contributions from Canadian Rio Algom, French Total Compagnie Minie?re et Nucle?aire, and South African Industrial Development Corporation, it functioned as a secretive and repressive proto-state, while also coopting the language of corporate social responsibility of the 1970s through its philanthropic Ro?ssing Foundation. It was a joint-stock company established with White capital that was closely aligned locally with the German Sudwester settler identity of Swakopmund while dispossessing Black Native laborers toiling in Arandis, Damaraland. Based on corporate and business archives (Ro?ssing, Total Energies, and National Association of Manufacturers), international archives (UNESCO, UNCN, and United Nations), and activists’ collections (Barbara Rogers papers and CANUC), this chapter presents Ro?ssing as a transimperial reactionary bloc throughout the 1970s and 1980s determined first, to prevent independence of Namibia and second, to survive unscathed should independence arrive anyway.
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 01/10/2024 de 17:30 à 18:30
R1-14
GPET Seminar
Du 01/10/2024 de 13:30 à 16:00
R2-21
13.30 Pot de rentrée Group GPET (terrasse 2ème étage)
14:15 Andrea Cornejo “Improving linguistic acquisition for migrant students”
15:00 Hannes Tepper : “Do This or Do That? A Model to Prioritize Reforms”
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 01/10/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
R221
WACH Oliver (Freie Universität Berlin)
Building Socialism on Abandoned Land: Collectivization and Civic Engagement in Poland
This article examines the long-term impact of collectivized agriculture in Poland on civic engagement and political preferences. Contrary to the belief that socialism eroded social capital, my findings indicate a positive legacy of collectivized farming on contemporary social capital and left-wing political leanings.
For identification purposes I exploit the historical fact that collectivization was more successful on areas that experienced the deportation of the ethnic minorities between 1944 and 1947 and employ an instrumental variable and regression discontinuity approach. An alternative instrumental approach that exploits spatial variation in the 1944 land reform confirms the results. I provide evidence that places with collective farms became the center of village social life and developed a distinct culture. Furthermore, this study utilizes new datasets from interwar and socialist Poland and introduces a novel municipal crosswalk enabling consistent historical analysis with data from century of Polish history.
Du 01/10/2024 de 09:00 à 12:30
R1-15
• Andrea Cornejo
• Hannes Tepper
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 30/09/2024 de 16:00 à 17:15
R1-09
CORRAO Roberto (MIT)
Optimally Coarse Contracts
écrit avec Joel Flynn and Karthik Sastry
We study a principal-agent model with imperfectly contractible actions and a cost of determining what is contractible. If contractibility costs satisfy a monotonicity property---implied by any arbitrarily small difficulty in distinguishing actions when writing the contract---then optimal contracts are necessarily coarse, specifying finitely many actions out of a continuum. By contrast, costs of enforcing a contract affect allocations but yield complete contracts. We provide first-order conditions that describe the structure of optimally incomplete contracts. Applying these results, the model rationalizes discrete pay grades in employment contracts. The presence of private information about productivity coarsens the optimal pay scale.
Econometrics Seminar
Du 30/09/2024 de 16:00 à 17:15
ZOOM
RITZWOLLER David (Stanford University)
TBA
Régulation et Environnement
Du 30/09/2024 de 11:00 à 12:15
R1-09
SINGER Gregor (LSE)
"Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency?”
The transition from traditional labor intensive to modern capital intensive production is a key factor for industrial development. Using half a million observations from Indian manufacturing plants, I analyze the effects of a secular decrease in industrial electricity prices through the lens of a model with technology choices and complementarities between electricity and capital inputs. Using instrumental variables, I show how lower industrial electricity prices can increase both labor productivity and electricity productivity. Apart from positive effects on firm economic and environmental performance, cost-price pass through significantly benefitted consumers, and the productivity improvements limited increases in carbon emissions.