Economics serving society

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Thursday June 15, 2017

9h-9h30 : Welcome coffee in the PSE hall

9h30-9h45 : Welcome address - Pierre-Yves Geoffard (Director) and Jean-Pierre Danthine (President)

.....Session Chaired by Philippe Jehiel (Ecole des Ponts-PSE)

9h45-10h35 : Jörgen Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics)
“Morality: evolutionary foundations, experimental support, and economic implications”

10h35-11h25 : Thomas Philippon (New-York University)
“Investment-less growth”

Break

11h50-12h40 : Paul Klemperer (Oxford University)
“Parisian geometers and equilibrium”

Lunch

.....Session Chaired by Gilles Saint-Paul (ENS-PSE)

14h00-14h50 : Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
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14h50-15h40 : Alberto Bisin (New-York University)
“On the joint evolution of culture and institutions” (joint with Thierry Verdier)

Break

16h10-17h00 : David Card (UC Berkeley)
“The role of firms in the labor market”

17h00-17h50 : Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University)
“Assortative Matching and Human Capital Investment”

Cocktail


Friday June 16, 2017

.....Session Chaired by Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (EHESS-PSE)

9h00-9h50 : Esther Duflo (MIT)
“The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana” (with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer)

9h50-10h40 : Martin Ravallion (Georgetown University)
“Informational Constraints on Targeted Antipoverty Policies in Africa”

Break

11h10-12h00 : Xavier Gabaix (Harvard University)
“Sparsity-based bounded rationality in micro and macro”

12h00-12h50 : Ricardo Caballero (MIT)
“A Model of Fickle Capital Flows and Retrenchment” (joint with Alp Simsek)

Lunch

.....Session Chaired by Jean-Marc Tallon (CNRS-PSE)

14h10-15h00 : Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology)
“The End of Rentiers ; Wealth and Wealth inequality in Paris 1872-1957” (joint with Thomas Piketty and Gilles Postel-Vinay

Break

15h30-16h20 : “The World Inequality Lab and the World Wealth and Income Database” (WID.world) - Facundo Alvaredo (PSE), Lucas Chancel (PSE), Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley)

16h20-17h10 : Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley)
“Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States”

17h10-18h00 : Thomas Piketty (EHESS-PSE)
“Rising inequality and globalization”