Année : 2011

Labor Market Frictions and the Balassa-Samuelson Model

Mardi | 2011-04-12 B103 Romain RESTOUT – Olivier CARDI This paper addresses the role of labor market frictions in the transmission process of sectoral productivities shocks to the relative price of nontradables. The Balassa-Samuelson model based on frictionless labor markets predicts (i ) proportionality between relative prices and the cross-sectoralproductivity differential and (ii ) wage equalization across sectors. Using panel cointegration and unit root tests applied to a panel of fourteen OECD economies, our empirical evidence does not support these […]

Etranges assurances

Mardi | 2011-04-05 B103 Cyrille PIATECKI L’essentiel des contrats d’assurance qui sont souscrits sur les marchĂ©s correspondentĂ  la description qui en est faite dans la plus part des manuels et des articlesconsacrĂ©s Ă  la thĂ©orie des assurances. Pourtant, il existe des contrats Ă©trangesqui sont rĂ©ellement Ă©changĂ©s et qui correspondent rarement aux critĂšres d’assurabilitĂ©et d’autres contrats qui nous Ă©tonnent peut ĂȘtre simplement parce quenous n’imaginions pas qu’on puisse trouver un assureur acceptant de courir lerisque ou simplement qu’il existe des individus […]

Deep Habits and the Macroeconomic Effects of Government Debt

Mardi | 2011-03-29 B103 Rym ALOUI In this paper, we study the effects of government debt on macroeconomic aggregates in a non-Ricardian framework. We develop a micro-founded framework which combines time-varying markups, endogenous labor supply and overlapping generations based on in
nitely-lived families. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a new transmission mechanism of public debt through the countercyclical markup movements induced by external deep habits. We analyze the e€ects of debt-
nanced tax cuts. We show that the […]

Maximum Benefits Duration and Older Workers’ Transitions out of Unemployment: a Regression Discontinuity Approach

Mardi | 2011-03-29 B103 Florent FREMIGACCI – RĂ©mi BAZILLIER This paper investigates the relationship between the length of Unemployment Insurance (UI) entitlement and transitions out of unemployment. Our focus is on older job seekers who usually access to longer benefit periods and may withdraw from the labour force via early retirement. We exploit the 2003 reform of the French UI system that involved substantial cuts in benefits for this specificgroup. The design of the reform naturally leads us to adopt […]

Risque de Données et Backtesting de la Value-at-Risk

Mercredi | 2011-03-16 B103 Sylvain BENOIT Les autoritĂ©s de rĂ©glementation bancaire imposent aux banques de dĂ©tenir un niveau minimum de fonds propres pour couvrir leur risque de marchĂ©. Ce montant est calculĂ© par les banques elles-mĂȘmes Ă  partir de leur modĂšle interne d’Ă©valuation du risque. Il est alors primordial pour les rĂ©gulateurs et les banques de s’assurer de la validitĂ© de ces modĂšles. L’ensemble de ces techniques de validation est appelĂ© le Backtesting. Elles permettent de vĂ©rifi er que les […]

InĂ©galitĂ©s de niveaux de vie des actifs et des retraitĂ©s : une multi-dĂ©composition de l’indice de Gini appliquĂ©e au cas Français

Mardi | 2011-03-15 B103 BĂ©rangĂšre LEGENDRE Les retraitĂ©s subviennent Ă  leurs besoins Ă  l’aide de revenus de remplacement pour la plupart d’entre eux, et non plus de revenus d’activitĂ©. Or en France, comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays d’Europe, les pensions sont dĂ©sormais indexĂ©es sur les prix. Les retraitĂ©s ne bĂ©nĂ©ficient donc plus directement des fruits de la croissance Ă©conomique. Les revenus de remplacement dĂ©pendant des rĂšgles de fonctionnement des systĂšmes de retraite, il est donc pertinent pour le dĂ©cideur public […]

Economic Integration Agreements: An International Political Perspective

Mercredi | 2011-03-09 B103 Arslan Tariq RANA This study examines the effect of bilateral interstate cooperation and economic and geographical characteristics in determining their effect on the different forms of integration agreements. A large sample of 185 countries, for a period 1990 – 2004, to identify domestic and international political and economic motivations contributing in the formation of trading agreements, is analyzed. The results of this study indicate that interstate dyadic cooperation plays a vital role in determining the move […]

The Impact of Different Types of Resource Transfers on Individual Well-Being: An Analysis of Quality of Life using CASP12

Mardi | 2011-03-08 B103 Victoria ATECA-AMESTOY – Arantza UGIDOS In this paper, we use data for Spain from the Survey of Health, Ageingand Retirement in Europe (SHARE, release 2.3.1) to model the determi-nants of quality of life of the elderly, paying special attention to theirintergenerational relations. We propose to study the CASP12 (a socialfunctional index) and explore the e€ect of interdependency in terms ofthe transfers of the resources of time and money that the eldest do to andreceive from other […]

Un modĂšle simple de Croissance EndogĂšne avec Corruption et Evasion Fiscale

Mardi | 2011-02-22 B103 Leila ALI AGA – Patrick VILLIEU Cet article prĂ©sente un modĂšle de croissance endogĂšne intĂ©-grant les dĂ©penses publiques et la corruption. Les mĂ©nages ontrecours Ă  la corruption a
n de rĂ©duire le montant de leurs impĂŽts.Ainsi, dans ce papier, la corruption se traduit par de l’évasion fis-cale.Les rĂ©sultats du modĂšle suggĂšrent qu’une fiscalitĂ© Ă©levĂ©e tendraitĂ  encourager la corruption contrairement au coĂ»t (mesurĂ© parl’attachement de l’Etat Ă  la lutte anti-corruption) qui est asso-ciĂ©e Ă  celle-ci. Par ailleurs, la […]