Mardi | 2013-05-07 B103 Christophe PERIGNON – Boris VALLEE We examine the toxic loans sold by investment banks to local governments. Using proprietary data, we show that politicians strategically use these products to increase chances of being re-elected. Consistent with greater incentives to hide debt, toxic loans are utilized significantly more frequently within highly indebted local governments. Incumbent politicians from politically contested areas are also more likely to turn to toxic loans. Using a difference in-differences methodology, we show that […]

Mercredi | 2013-04-30 Sully 4 Cem ERTUR – Marion NICOLUCCI

Mercredi | 2013-04-19 B103 Eric YAYI – Alexis DIRER Les épargnants d étenant des titres nanciers risqu es ont-ils tendance a investir à contretemps sur les march és boursiers, achetant au sommet et vendant dans les creux ? R éduisent-ils leur exposition au risque avec l’âge et en particulier à l’approche de la retraite ? Nous r épondons à ces deux questions à l’aide des donn ées d’un grand assureur fran cais répertoriant les souscriptions de contrats Madelin entre 2002 […]

Mardi | 2013-04-16 B103 Nathalie GUILBERT – Karine MARAZYAN In Senegal, 16% of young mothers have given births out-of-wedlock. In a country, where fecundity is mainly thought inside the marriage institution, this proportion is rather surprising. In this paper, we are interested in testing the existence of a stigmatization on both the mother and the out of wedlock child. To investigate this question, we examine the consequences of premarital births on women’s marital trajectory and on children’s health in Senegal. […]

Mercredi | 2013-04-10 B103 Sylvain BENOIT The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of choosing the level of the system (global, european or national) when dealing with systemic risk. Up to now, additional supervision and regulation were established for global systemically important banks, G-SIBs. The paper highlights the need for managing domestic systemically important banks, D-SIBs. This issue is central when focusing on Europe where each country should identify its D-SIBs whereas the Basel Committee on Banking […]

Mercredi | 2013-03-27 B103 Désiré KANGA Cet article analyse les effets des politiques d’assouplissement conduites par la Banque Centrale Européenne (BCE) sur l’activité de crédit au sein de la zone euro en répondant à deux questions. La première identifie les facteurs de transmission de ces politiques tandis que la seconde aborde la problématique des conditions de crédit. Il ressort que les politiques d’assouplissement conduites par la BCE ont eu un impact significatif sur l’offre de crédit dans les pays analysés […]

Mardi | 2013-03-26 B103 Ujjayant CHAKRAVORTY – Beyza Ural MARCHAND – Martino PELLI This paper studies the effects of increased access to electricity in rural India on household income. We examine the effect of electrification at the intensive margin as well as from connecting to the grid – the extensive margin. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel of more than 10,000 households. We use the district-level variation in land elevation and the district-level density of […]

Mardi | 2013-03-19 B103 Leonardo BECCHETTI – andrew CLARK – Elena GIACHIN RICCA This paper attempts to establish the value of good relationships between countries by considering their effect on a group of individuals who are arguably intimately affected by them: immigrants. We appeal to an index of conflict/cooperation which is calculated as an annual weighted sum of news items between two countries. This index is matched to a sample of immigrants to Germany in the SOEP data. The index […]

Mercredi | 2013-03-13 B103 Ismaël ISSIFOU

Mercredi | 2013-03-06 B103 Abdellah BOUCHELLAL Using a unique data set of credit file retrieved from one of the three major French banks, we investigate whether banking competition affects the loan officer production of particular form of information considering the whole of bank-firm relationship framework. Our data set allows us to introduce direct measure of hard and soft information used by loan officer during the credit underwriting process, as well as the other sources of bank revenues from its relationship […]