Mardi | 2018-05-22 Salle B103 16h – 17h20 José De SOUSA – Muriel NIEDERLE Vertical gender segregation is one of the most stubborn features of labor markets: high-ranking positions are primarily held by men in Business, Politics and Science. Can we implement pro-active steps to erase this segregation? We try to answer this question by investigating the effects of a clear affirmative action for women, where we have a good measure of “ability” even of people who did not directly […]

Mardi | 2018-05-15 Salle B103 16h – 17h20 Ludovic DESMEDT Entre août 1945 et juillet 1946, la Hongrie a connu la pire crise inflationniste jamais recensée. Dans les derniers jours de cet épisode, les prix augmentèrent de 150.000% par jour. Dès les travaux de Kaldor ou Nogaro sur cette expérience, plusieurs facteurs ont été mis en avant expliquer le phénomène : dérive des finances publiques, anticipations des acteurs ou introduction d’une monnaie indexée. L’objectif de cet article consiste à revenir […]

Mardi | 2018-04-24 Salle des thèses 16h – 17h20 Mickael MELKI Electoral reforms affecting the incentives to vote modify the composition of the electorate, potentially overrepresenting specific interests in policy implementation. Due to the age turnout gap, they may bias intergenerational redistribution in favor of the elderly. We exploit a natural experiment provided by the repeal of mandatory voting in Austria to study how a change in the incentive to vote affects intergenerational redistribution through pro-young public education spending. We […]

Mardi | 2018-04-19 Salle B103 12h – 13h30 Theodore PANAGIOTIDIS We investigate the effect of economic uncertainty on investment. We employ a sample consisting of annual data from 25000 Greek firms’ balance sheets covering the period from 2000 to 2014. A dynamic factor model is employed to proxy uncertainty. The investment performance of 14 sectors is examined within a dynamic investment model. Robust GMM estimates of the investment rate model reveal a high degree of heterogeneity among these sectors. Overall […]

Mardi | 2018-04-17 Salle des thèses 16h – 17h20 Olivier BOS We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction and the second-price sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information through their bidding behaviour to an outside observer. We consider two different information settings: the auctioneer reveals either the identity of the winning bidder only, or she also reveals the winner’s payment to an outside observer. We find that the first-price sealed-bid auction in which […]

Mardi | 2018-04-10 Salle des thèses 16h – 17h20 Pierre-Charles PRADIER Que valent les jetons virtuels comme les Bitcoins ou les centaines de nouvelles variétés émises à l’occasion des Initial Coin Offerings qui se sont multipliées depuis 2017 ? En tant qu’actif immatériel, un jeton devrait valoir la somme actualisée des flux futurs qu’il promet. Mais cette valeur fondamentale est difficile à déterminer concrètement, et il faut pouvoir rendre compte des écarts sans considérer chacun d’eux comme des bulles. Pour […]

Mardi | 2018-04-03 Salle des thèses 16h – 17h20 François PANNEQUIN This paper compares the Holt and Laury’s risk attitude elicitation with a risk attitude classification associated with insurance behavior. The standard Holt and Laury’s procedure (2002) is implemented in the loss domain, while the second tool is based on contextualized experimental hedging choices for insurance and loss reduction (secondary prevention). Our findings highlight the high consistency between the two procedures for more than two-thirds of the subjects, both measures […]

Mardi | 2018-03-27 Salle des thèses 16h – 17h20 Marine DE TALANCé This paper explores the relationship between compulsory education, educational attainment and fertility. More specifically, we focus on a law implemented in Indonesia that lengthened compulsory education by three years and we use the IFLS database. Empirically, we rely on a difference-in-differences model with a continuous treatment defined by the initial level of education in the individual’s region of birth. We find that the law increased junior secondary school […]

Mardi | 2018-03-20 Salle des thèses 16h – 17h20 Defining retirement as a discontinuity in the labor supply of the agent, this paper resolves the retirement consumption puzzle in a very general model of intertemporal choice of consumption and savings of a fully rational, forward looking, agent. Building on a specific version of Bellman (1957) principle of optimality, it provides a very general and parsimonious formula for determining the optimal age of retirement taking into account the possible discontinuity of […]

Mardi | 2018-02-27 Salle des thèses 16h – 17h20 Laura HERING – Julien GOURDON – Stéphanie MONJON – Sandra PONCET Compared to most countries, China’s value-added tax (VAT) system is not neutral and makes it less advantageous to export a product than to sell it domestically. However, the large and frequent changes to the VAT refunds which are offered to exporters have led China to be accused of providing its firms with an unfair advantage in global trade. We use […]