Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques - UMR8545 - Séminaires - Agenda du 6 au 10 novembre 2017
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DEVOTO Florencia : Three Essays in Development Economics
Directeur de thèse GURGAND Marc
Co-authors : Margot Hovsepian
Abstract : We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are the main driver of technological improvements. Firms’ beliefs and consumers’ anticipations drive the path of the economy. We derive the optimal policy of investment subsidy and the expected time and likelihood of reaching a targeted level of environmental quality under economic uncertainty. This allows us to estimate the value that should be given to the environment in order to avoid an environmental catastrophe as a function of the strength of spillover effects.
Co-authors : Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College)
BEHNENDA Asma (PSE) : Absence, Substitutability and Productivity : Evidence from Teachers
Paris trade | 14:45-16:15
Salle H405, ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405
O’ROURKE Kevin (Oxford) : * Empire, distance, and British exports 1700-1900
PITON Sophie (PSE) : Economic Integration and the Non-tradable sector : the European Experience
BHARADWAJ Prashant (UCSD) : Displacement and Development : Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India.
The partition of British India in 1947 resulted in one of the largest and most rapid migrations in human history. This paper examines how areas affected by the partition fare in the long run. Using migrant presence as a proxy for the intensity of the impact of the partition, and district level data on agricultural output between 1911-2009, we find that areas that received more migrants have higher average yields, are more likely to take up high yielding varieties (HYV) of seeds, and are more likely to use agricultural technologies. These correlations are more pronounced after the Green Revolution in India. Using pre-partition data, we show that migrant placement is uncorrelated with soil conditions, agricultural infrastructure, and agricultural yields prior to 1947 ; hence, the e ?ects are not solely explained by selective migration into districts with a higher potential for agricultural development. Migrants moving to India were more educated than both the natives who stayed and the migrants who moved out. Given the positive association of education with the adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds we highlight the presence of educated migrants during the timing of the Green Revolution as a potential pathway for the observed effects.
Les manifestations socio-économiques du chômage de masse et les réaménagements des budgets de ménage pour y faire face. Le cas de la Grande Récession espagnole (2008-2015). Directeur de thèse : BOURDIEU Jérôme
Salle R2-21, Campus Jourdan, 48, bld Jourdan 75014 PARIS
BANERJEE Abhijit (MIT) : Information Delivery under Endogenous Communication : Experimental Evidence from the Indian Demonetization
Co-authors : Emily Breza, Arun Chandrasekar and Ben Golub
Macro Workshop | 14:00-15:00
PINTER Julien (Paris 1) : Breaking the Swiss Franc peg : afraid of financial losses ?
Salle R2-21, PSE - 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CHALLE EDOUARD (polytechnique)
Essays in firm dynamics, productivity and innovation.
Salle 17, MSE, 106 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Economie politique du changement institutionnel | 11:00-12:30
ROOM 116, MSE, 106 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris