Journees Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet 2016

Welcoming Coffee

C1 - Political Economy

Room 003 - G. Dandelot

Chair: Antonin Macé

› Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes - Jo Thori Lind, University of Oslo 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Render Unto Caesar: Welfare, Charity, and Political Islam - 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› It's a matter of confidence. Institutions, government stability and economic outcomes. - 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Targeted Campaign Competition, Loyal Voters, and Supermajorities - Pierre Boyer, Ecole Polytechnique [Palaiseau] 10:15-10:40 (25min)

C2 - Migration & Political Economy

Room 004 - T. Arbeau

Chair: Habiba Djebbari

› Emigration as a Pacifying Force? - Veronica Preotu, University of Geneva - Department of Economics 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Welfare state, immigration policy, and political parties formation - Chiara Canta, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Immigration to the U.S.: A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats? - Walter Steingress, Banque de France 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› The Impact of Local Income Inequality on Local Redistribution through Public Goods: Evidence from French Municipalities - Brice Fabre, Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 10:15-10:40 (25min)

C3 - Marriage & household decisions

Room 005 - J. Dalcroze

Chair: Frederic Vermeulen

› Assortative mating and earnings inequality in France - Nicolas Fremeaux, Université Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Household consumption when the marriage is stable - Frederic Vermeulen, University of Leuven 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Development policies when accounting for the extensive margin of fertility - Thomas Baudin, Université Catholique de Louvain - Center for Demographic Research 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› More than just friends? Diversity in schools and interracial relationships - Luca Paolo Merlino, Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne 10:15-10:40 (25min)

› Nonparametric welfare and demand analysis with unobserved individual heterogeneity - Thomas Demuynck, University of Maastricht 10:40-11:05 (25min)

C4 - Education

Room 102 - J-M. Damase

Chair: Christian Schluter

› Short-Term Efects of Secondary School Tracking in Germany: A Dis-Aggregated Synthetic Control Approch - 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Teacher Quality, Test Scores and Non-cognitive Skills: Evidence from Primary School Teachers in the UK - Sarah Fleche, Department of Economics 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Evaluating Professor Value-added: Evidence from Professor and Student Matching in Physics - Ryo Nakajima, Keio University 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Where are the schools of opportunity? - 10:15-10:40 (25min)

› Teachers, Electoral Cycles and Learning in India - 10:40-11:05 (25min)

C5 - Optimal taxation

Room 103 - B. Martinu

Chair: François Maniquet

› Consumption taxes and taste heterogeneity - fanny Henriet, CNRS, Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Efficiency-enhancing taxation and nonlinear pricing - Antonio Russo, ETH Zurich 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Financing Unemployment Insurance Benefits over the Business Cycle - Raphaël Lardeux, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique, INSEE Paris, CRED 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Well-Being Poverty and Labor Income Taxation: Theory and Application to Europe and the US - Francois Maniquet, Université Catholique de Louvain 10:15-10:40 (25min)

C6 - Wealth

Room 104 - B. Bartok

Chair: André Masson

› Land is back...and it must be taxed - Alain Trannoy, Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS and EHESS 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Panel Income Changes and Changing Relative Income Inequality - Gary S. Fields, Cornell University and IZA 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› The distribution of wealth in Spain: Evidence from capitalized income tax data - Clara martínez-toledano toledano, PhD student 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Reforming Household Wealth Taxes: Towards Solidarity Deals - André Masson, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques 10:15-10:40 (25min)

› Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance: Evidence from multiple generations - Daniel Waldenström, Department of Economics, Uppsala University 10:40-11:05 (25min)

C7 - Intergenerational links

Room 521 - L. Jouvet

Chair: Elise Huillery

› Why does birthplace matter so much? Sorting, learning and geography - Bosquet Clément, Théorie économique, modélisation et applications 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Sex and the Mission: The Conflicting Effects of Early Christian Investments on sub-Saharan Africa's HIV Epidemic - Valeria Rueda, Pembroke College - University of Oxford (UK) 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Destructive intergenerational altruism - Geir B. Asheim, University of Oslo 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Aspirations and the Perpetuation of Social Inequalities: Evidence from Academic Paths in France - Elise Huillery, Département d'économie 10:15-10:40 (25min)

C8 - (Un)employment

Room 522 - S. Bernhardt

Chair: Bruno Decreuse

› Duration Dependence, Dynamic Selection and the Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits - Mario Meier, University of Mannheim 09:00-09:25 (25min)

› Dealing with job insecurity - Peter Van der Meer, Utrecht University - UU (NETHERLANDS) 09:25-09:50 (25min)

› Country-Specific Preferences and Employment Rates in Europe - Simone Moriconi, Università Cattolica di Milano 09:50-10:15 (25min)

› Access to Labor Courts & Unemployment: Evidence from French Labor Courts - Romain Espinosa, Centre de Recherches en Economie et Droit 10:15-10:40 (25min)

Coffee break

François Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics) "Development Aid and Governance" - Chair: Alain Trannoy

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Keynote 3

Lunch

D1 - Conflicts & contests

Room 003 - G. Dandelot

Chair: Nicolas Berman

› Contributing to public defense in a contest model - Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› COMPARING CONTEST SUCCESS FUNCTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM VIRTUAL WORLDS - Antoine Pietri, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Reputational concerns in repeated rent seeking contests - Francesco Fallucchi, University of East Anglia and NIBS 14:50-15:15 (25min)

› Strategic Compromise in Contests with Two-Dimensional Policy Spaces - Luna Bellani, University of Konstanz 15:15-15:40 (25min)

D2 - Tax competition

Room 004 - T. Arbeau

Chair: Jean Hindriks

› Corporate Tax Rates and Regional Integration. Evidence from the Transition Countries - Aleksandra Klofat, University Witten Herdecke 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› The supermodularity of tax competition - Gregoire Rota-Graziosi, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Tax Effects of Amalgamations: Evidence from Swiss Municipalities - Florian Chatagny, ETH Zurich 14:50-15:15 (25min)

› Can revenue equalisation mitigate tax competition? Ad valorem, residence-based taxation in a federation - Willem Sas, KU Leuven [Leuven] 15:15-15:40 (25min)

D3 - Fertility & household decisions

Room 005 - J. Dalcroze

Chair: Olivier Donni

› A Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Subsidized Child Care on Maternal Earnings - Ella Shachar, Bank of Israel/Bar Ilan University 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Modes of child care - Volker Meier, University of Munich 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Fertility and Labor Supply: New Evidence from the UK - Marion Leturcq, INED 14:50-15:15 (25min)

› Home production of childcare and labour supply decisions in a collective household model - helene turon, University of Bristol [Bristol] 15:15-15:40 (25min)

D4 - Time allocation, children & market constraints

Room 102 - J-M. Damase

Chair: Bram de Rock

› Child Labor and Market Access: Identifying Excluded Households - Samia BADJI, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› The response of parental time investments to the child's skills and health - Valentina Tonei, Department of Economics and Related Studies 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Liquidity constraints and labor supply - Serena Trucchi, University College London - London's Global University, CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto 14:50-15:15 (25min)

› Choosing Season of Birth: The Role of Biological and Economic Constraints - Damian Clarke, University of Oxford 15:15-15:40 (25min)

D5 - Normative Economics & axiomatics

Room 103 - B. Martinu

Chair: Alain Trannoy

› Beyond Equal Rights: Equality of Opportunity in Political Participation - Paul Hufe, Centre for European Economic Research 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› The Axiomatic Approach to Selection from Sets - Gianni De Fraja, University of Nottingham, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› A new index combining the absolute and relative aspects of income poverty: theory and application - Benoit Decerf, Bielefeld University, Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain] 14:50-15:15 (25min)

› Accounting for needs in cost sharing - Justin Leroux, HEC Montréal 15:15-15:40 (25min)

D6 - Environment II

Room 104 - B. Bartok

Chair: Agnès Tomini

› Strategic decentralization and the provision of global public goods - Cheng Wan, University of Oxford 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Spatial property-rights fisheries with potential regime shift - Nicolas QUEROU, Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› The Natural Resource Curse revisited: Theory and Evidence from India - Amrita Dhillon, King's College London 14:50-15:15 (25min)

› On volontary conservation agreements in fisheries - Hubert Stahn, Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille 15:15-15:40 (25min)

D7 - Ageing and work

Room 521 - L. Jouvet

Chair: Paul Bingley

› To Continue Working or not: The Case of Older Workers in Great Britain - Kadija Charni, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› Can I Stay or Should I Go? Mandatory Retirement and Labor Force Participation of Senior Workers - Rabaté Simon, Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Pension benefit reform and the substitution of younger for older workers - 14:50-15:15 (25min)

› The impact of employer's characteristics on the willingness to hire older workers: Evidence from a stated preferences experiment - Raymond Montizaan, Maastricht University 15:15-15:40 (25min)

D8 - Macroeconomics II

Room 522 - S. Bernhardt

Chair: Alain Venditti

› Quasi-hyperbolic discounting and the taxation of capital income - Gareth Myles, University of Exeter 14:00-14:25 (25min)

› A Competitive Idea-Based Growth Model with Shrinking Workers' Income Share - Carla Marchese, DiGSPES Università del Piemonte Orientale - Fabio Privileggi, Department of Economics and Statistics, Univerità di Torino 14:25-14:50 (25min)

› Public Capital Expenditure and Debt Dynamics: Evidence from the European Union - Alessandro Piergallini, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata 14:50-15:15 (25min)

› Public Debt under Excusable Default: Why do Governments Borrow so Much? - Michel Habib, University of Zürich, SFI, CEPR 15:15-15:40 (25min)

Break

Kaushik Basu (World Bank) "A New Approach to Law and Economics" - Chair: Olivier Bargain

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Keynote 4

Farewell drinks

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