Calendrier du mois de septembre 2024
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Semaine du 2024-01-29 au 2024-02-04 |
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 02/02/2024 de 13:00 à 14:00
R1-09
DESBUREAUX Sebastien (Center for Environmental Economics- Montpellier)
Accelerating the adoption of green technologies in low-income countries: impact and mechanisms for electric cooking in the D.R. Congo
Charcoal remains the primary cooking-fuel of one-third of humanity, with important negative consequences for forests, wildlife and climate change. As access to electricity is steadily increasing, our randomized control trial asks whether electric cooking can become a credible alternative to charcoal in the context of a low-income country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We study the impact on the demand for charcoal and mechanisms that could encourage adoption. Our first results show that the adoption of energy-efficient electric cookers lead to a 21% increase in electricity consumption in the 12 months following the start of the experiment, and in a 30% decrease in charcoal consumption after 6 and 12 months. They highlight that it can be profitable for energy distributors to subsidize the initial purchase of a cooker ($80) and reimburse themselves through increased electricity revenues (+$115 over five years using a 10% discount rate) and carbon finance (over 6t CO2eq per cooker, $10-15/t). As credit constraints are a key barrier preventing households to transition towards green, reliable but expensive cooking technologies, such business model has the potential to accelerate the transition towards clean cooking, with important benefits for all beings, whether they are human or not.
Du 02/02/2024 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle R1-14
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EU Tax Observatory Seminar
Du 02/02/2024 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle R1.14
NAVARRA Elisa (ECARES - Université libre de Bruxelles)
(JOB TALK) The Effects of Corporate Subsidies Along Supply Chains
The increasing use of corporate subsidies by governments worldwide raises concerns about their trade effects. In this paper, I study the effects of corporate subsidies on exports, both direct (in subsidised industries) and indirect (in industries connected through input-output linkages). To this end, I use a unique dataset on all federal subsidies introduced by the United States since 2000. I document that, against multilateral trading rules, only a fraction of these subsidies are notified to the World Trade Organization. To identify causal effects, I exploit exogenous political shocks driven by changes in the identity swing states across electoral terms. I find that politically motivated subsidies foster exports in industries directly and indirectly exposed to them. Employment also increases. Contrary to the existing jurisprudence, the positive effects along supply chains stem from increased investments rather than price suppression. My analysis contributes to the ongoing debate about reforming multilateral trading rules on subsidies by advocating enhanced transparency and a broader interpretation of pass-through effects.
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Du 01/02/2024 de 16:00 à 17:00
R1.14
MARTIN Jamie ()
en ligne, autour de son livre The Meddlers...
JOB MARKET
Du 31/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:45
R2-21
ONUCHIC Paula (OXFORD UNIVERSITY)
Disclosure and incentives in teams
Paula ONUCHIC (Oxford University)
Wednesday, January 31th, R2-21, 12.30pm-1.45pm
Microeconomics; Theory
"Disclosure and incentives in teams"
Economic History Seminar
Du 31/01/2024 de 12:00 à 13:30
R1.09
CASSIER Maurice (CNRS, Cermes3)
Il y a des alternatives: pour une autre histoire des médicaments (XIXe-XXIe siècles) (Seuil, 2023)
Ce livre porte sur l’histoire du médicament et sur l’histoire de la propriété intellectuelle, et il montre qu’il n’y a pas de fatalité à la monopolisation des industries de santé par quelques grands laboratoires pharmaceutiques. Il se propose de rouvrir l’espace des possibles pour inventer et produire des médicaments sans monopole, en limitant et en maitrisant les profits, en instaurant une profitabilité sociale et en s’émancipant des exclusivités de marché. D’une certaine manière, l’histoire du médicament est une histoire des alternatives à la propriété exclusive et aux monopoles. Ces utopies pharmaceutiques, en termes de partage des technologies pour inventer des biens publics ou communs, sont aussi anciennes que l’invention des droits de propriété intellectuelle à la fin du 18ème siècle. C’est précisément l’objet de ce livre d’en faire l’histoire et d’en inventorier les types. Ces alternatives sont expérimentées dans un contexte où les droits intellectuels sont incomplets dans la période 1790-1950, puis dans un contexte de globalisation croissante des brevets, particulièrement depuis les années 1990.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 30/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.21
WEBB Duncan (PSE)
Silence to Solidarity: Using Group Dynamics to Reduce Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India
Individual-level discrimination is often attributed to deep-seated prejudice that is difficult to change. But at the societal level, we sometimes observe rapid reductions in discriminatory preferences, suggesting that communication about a minority might drive such shifts. I examine whether discrimination can be reduced by two types of communication about a minority: (i) horizontal communication between majority-group members, or (ii) top-down communication from agents of authority (e.g., the legal system). I run a field experiment in urban India (N=3,397) that measures discrimination against a marginalized community of transgender people. Participants are highly discriminatory: in a control condition, they sacrifice 1.9x their daily food expenditure to avoid hiring a transgender worker to deliver groceries to their home. But horizontal communication between cisgender participants sharply reduces discrimination: participants who were earlier involved in a group discussion with two of their neighbors no longer discriminate on average, even when making private post-discussion choices. This effect is 1.7x larger than the effect of top-down communication, informing participants about the legal rights of transgender people. The discussion’s effects are not driven by virtue signalling or correcting a misperceived norm. Instead, participants appear to persuade each other to be more pro-trans, partly because pro-trans participants are the most vocal in discussions.
JOB MARKET
Du 29/01/2024 de 13:00 à 14:15
R2-21
BEIGELMAN Marie (ETH Zurich)
Impact of Enslavement Conditions on Families
Monday, January 29th, R2-21, 1pm-2.15pm
Development, Political Economy, and Economic History
"Impact of Enslavement Conditions on Families"