Journees Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet 2016

Welcoming Coffee and Registration

A1 - State and Local Government

Room 003 - G. Dandelot

Chair: Nicolas Gravel

› The Flypaper Effect in Municipal Finance: A Regression Kink Design - Gabriel Loumeau, ETH Zürich 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Municipality mergers - 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› The impact of local government size on the flypaper effect: evidence from the 2008 fiscal refom in Italy - masimiliano ferraresi, University of Ferrara 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Optimal territorial design and decentralization - Marie Breuillé, CESAER 10:15-10:40 (25min)

› If you want me to stay, pay: a model of asymmetric federalism in centralised countries - Peter Claeys, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 10:40-11:05 (25min)

A2 - Tax avoidance

Room 004 - T. Arbeau

Chair: Gareth Myles

› Voluntary Disclosure Schemes for Offshore Tax Evasion: An Analysis - Matthew Rablen, Brunel University 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Fiscal consolidation and tax compliance - Francesco Pappada, Centre de recherche de la Banque de France 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Limited Commitment to Enforcement and the Evolution of Tax Compliance - Marisa Ratto, Universite Paris-Dauphine 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Are poorer countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance? - Thomas Tørsløv, University of Copenhagen 10:15-10:40 (25min)

A3 - Household (non)cooperation, information & transfers

Room 005 - J. Dalcroze

Chair: Roberta Ziparo

› Consumption Dynamics and Allocation in the Family - Alexandros Theloudis, Department of Economics 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Income Hiding and Informal Redistribution: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Senegal - Karine Marazyan, IEDES-P1 UMR D&S 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Noncooperative household consumption with caring - Bram De Rock, ECARES 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Household Responses to Cash Transfers - Denni Tommasi, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics 10:15-10:40 (25min)

› An empirical Bayes method to estimate resource shares of household members - Alexander Wolf, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics 10:40-11:05 (25min)

A4 - Gender, norms & institutions

Room 102 - J-M. Damase

Chair: Claudia Senik

› Stereotypes, Underconfidence and Decision Making with an Application to Gender and Math - Elyes Jouini, Univ. Paris-Dauphine 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Modern Family: Female Breadwinners and the Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Norms - Panos Mavrokonstantis, Department of Economics 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Are Women Better Police Officers? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Uganda - Natascha Wagner, Erasmus University Rotterdam 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Undoing Gender with Institutions. Lessons from the German Division and Reunification - Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics 10:15-10:40 (25min)

A5 - Public sector & performance

Room 103 - B. Martinu

Chair: Renaud Bourlès

› The targets of State Capitalism: international firm-level evidence (2005-2012) - Carlo Fiorio, University of Milan 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Organizational change and employee labor market outcomes - Mette Gørtz, University of Copenhagen 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Private Protection and Public Policing - Steeve Mongrain, Simon Fraser University 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Mission-Oriented Firms, Motivated Workers, and Screening - 10:15-10:40 (25min)

A6 - Housing & land

Room 104 - B. Bartok

Chair: Robert Joyce

› Demographic Cycle, Migration and Housing Investment: a Causal Examination - Clara Wolf, Sciences Po 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Financing public capital through land rent taxation: A macroeconomic Henry George Theorem - Linus Mattauch, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) Berlin 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› The Housing Cost Disease - Pietro Reichlin, LUISS G. Carli 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Is Capital Back? The Role of Land Ownership and Savings Behavior - Max Franks, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Technische Universität Berlin [Berlin] 10:15-10:40 (25min)

› The curious incidence of rent subsidies: evidence from administrative data - Robert Joyce, Institute for Fiscal Studies 10:40-11:05 (25min)

A7 - Health, Care and Insurance

Room 521 - L. Jouvet

Chair: Helmuth Cremer

› Explicit vs implicit rationing in health care provision: a welfare approach - ROSELLA LEVAGGI, Department of Economics, University of Brescia 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Cancer risk valuation: To treat, or to prevent, that is the question! - Daniel Herrera-Araujo, Hospinnomics 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Measuring inequities in health over the lifecycle: age-specific or lifecycle perspective? - 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Think about it, and decide: Do active-decision mechanisms increase organ donations? - Simona Grassi, Université de Lausanne 10:15-10:40 (25min)

› Long-term care social insurance. How to avoid big losses? - Justina Klimaviciute, Universite de Liege 10:40-11:05 (25min)

A8 - Macroeconomics

Room 522 - S. Bernhardt

Chair: Alice Fabre

› Asset Price Volatility, Wealth Distribution and Spirit of Capitalism: The Role of Heterogeneity - Lise Clain-Chamosset-Yvrard, Théorie économique, modélisation et applications 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Deficit Rules and Monetization in a Growth Model with Multiplicity and Indeterminacy - 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Why Risky Sectors Grow Fast - Basile GRASSI, Nuffield 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› FOREIGN EXCHANGE INTERVENTIONS AS AN (UN)CONVENTIONAL MONETARY POLICY TOOL: MID-TERM EVALUATION - Lubomir Lizal, CNB 10:15-10:40 (25min)

› Workers' Remittances, Capital Accumulation and Efficiency in Developing Countries - Nicolas Destrée, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 10:40-11:05 (25min)

Coffee break

Forewords

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Kai Konrad (Max Planck Institute) "Brothers in Arms - Theory and Experimental Evidence on Alliances" - Chair: Nicolas Gravel

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Keynote 1

Lunch

B1 - Response to taxes

Room 003 - G. Dandelot

Chair: Marc Sangnier

› Regional payroll tax cuts and individual wages: Heterogeneous effects across education groups - hildegunn stokke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Corporate Flat Tax Reforms and Businesses' Location Choices. Evidence from Switzerland - Agustin Redonda, Council on Economic Policies 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› The Sensitivity of Estimating Taxable Income Responses - carina woodage, Centre for European Economic Research, University of Mannheim 14:50-15:15 (25min)

B2 - Tax avoidance II

Room 004 - T. Arbeau

Chair: Kai Konrad

› How long-lasting are the effects of audits? - William Elming, Institute for Fiscal Studies 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Does E-government improve public sector capability? Evidence from tax administration and public procurement - Anna Kochanova, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› The Effects of Auditing Announcements on Tax Fraud - 14:50-15:15 (25min)

B3 - Social interactions

Room 005 - J. Dalcroze

Chair: Yann Bramoullé

› The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply - Emma Tominey, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion: Evidence from an Information Intervention. - 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Necessary Luxuries: A New Social Interactions Model, Applied to Keeping Up With the Joneses in India - Arthur Lewbel, Department of Economics, Boston College 14:50-15:15 (25min)

B4 - Gender, discrimination & segregation

Room 102 - J-M. Damase

Chair: Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa

› Don't Touch My Road. Evidence from India on Affirmative Action and Everyday Discrimination. - Victoire Girard, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Job opportunities and women's empowerment in Egypt - Clémentine Sadania, Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Segregation and the perception of the minority - Florent Dubois, Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 14:50-15:15 (25min)

B5 - Wages & Minimum Wage

Room 103 - B. Martinu

Chair: Steve Bazen

› Wages, Labor Costs, Taxes and Technological Determinants of Inequalities: France 1976-2010 - Thomas Breda, Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Industry-Level Wage Bargaining in France - Sébastien Roux, Banque de France & CREST 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Estimating a Structural Equilibrium Job Search Model to Evaluate the Introduction of a Uniform Minimum Wage in Germany - Maximilian Joseph Blömer, Centre for European Economic Research 14:50-15:15 (25min)

B6 - Environment I

Room 104 - B. Bartok

Chair: Olivier Chanel

› The Curse of Low-valued Recycling - Norimichi Matsueda, Kwansei Gakuin University 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› A Carbon tax and the Risk of Inequity - Emmanuel Combet, Centre Internationa de Recherche sur l'Environement et le Développement 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Amazonian Deforestation, Environmental Kuznets Curve and Deforestation Policy:A Cointegration Approach - Philippe Polome, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique 14:50-15:15 (25min)

B7 - Health, Care and Insurance II

Room 521 - L. Jouvet

Chair: Lars-Erik Borge

› Social insurance with competitive insurance markets and risk misperception - Helmuth Cremer, Toulouse School of Economics 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Long-Term Care and Births Timing - Gregory Ponthiere, University Paris 12 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Unintended consequences of a grant reform: How the action plan for the elderly affected the budget deficit and services for the young - 14:50-15:15 (25min)

B8 - Search & matching

Room 522 - S. Bernhardt

Chair: Gary Fields

› Estimating On-the-job Search as an Intensive Margin - Guillaume Wilemme, Sciences Po Paris - Institut d'études politiques de Paris 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Search frictions and (in)efficient vocational training over the life-cycle - Anthony Terriau, Groupe d'Analyse des Itinéraires et des Niveaux Salariaux 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Directed search with phantom vacancies - Bruno Decreuse, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 14:50-15:15 (25min)

Coffee break

Pierre-André Chiappori (Colombia University) "Partner Choice, Investment in Children, and the Marital College Premium" - Chair: Yann Bramoullé

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Keynote 2

Concert

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Break

Transfer with private bus

Gala Dinner