PSE-CEPR Policy Forum : Previous editions

Chair: Katheline Schubert (PSE, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

9:00-09:15 – Introduction
Esther Duflo (PSE, MIT, CEPR)

09:15-10:15 – Documentary Projection:

• Water wars Episode 1: The Land of good intentions
• Water wars Episode 2: The Eternal Swamp

Presented by the film maker, Sarnath Banerjee

10:15-10:45 – Coffee break

10:45-11:45 – Invited research paper
Climate adaptation and inequality
Kelsey Jack (UC Santa Barbara, CEPR)
Discussant: Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (PSE, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

11:45-12:45 – Presentations by PhD students selected by the CEPR call for papers

Climate supervisory shocks and bank lending: Empirical evidence from microdata
Maria Alessia Aiello (Banca d’Italia, LUISS)

What Doesn’t Kill You Slows Your Green Stride: Technological Change After Hurricane Katrina
Yuan Hu (Imperial College Business School)

Gone with the Wind: Renewable Energy Infrastructure, Welfare, and Redistribution
Milan Quentel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Consistency or Transformation? Finance in Climate Agreements
Sebastian Rink (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

Sovereign debt sustainability, the carbon budget and climate damages
Caterina Seghini (PSE Guest PhD, University of Geneva)

The Marginal Impact of Emission Reductions: Estimates, Beliefs and Behavior
Christoph Semken (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

12:45-13:45 – Lunch break and Poster Session by PhD students

13:45-14:45 – Invited research paper
The Global Inequality of Climate Damages
Ishan Nath (San Francisco Fed)
Discussant: Katrin Millock (PSE, CNRS)

14:45-15:15 – Coffee break and Poster Session by PhD students

15:15-16:15 – Keynote Lecture
Esther Duflo (PSE, MIT, CEPR)

16:15-17:15 – Policy Conversation

• Shameran Abed (Executive Director of BRAC International)
• Esther Duflo (PSE, MIT, CEPR)
• Moderated by Kelsey Jack (UC Santa Barbara, CEPR)

17:15-17:30 – Break

17:30-18:30 – Daniel Cohen Prize
Ceremony Award Winner of the Daniel Cohen Prize

• Presentation of the Daniel Cohen Prize to Nina Buchmann, doctoral student at Stanford University, by Michel Cohen, Daniel Cohen’s brother
• In the presence of Esther Duflo, chair of the award committee
• In the presence of the the association des anciens élèves de l’École normale supérieure (A-Ulm) which is funding this year’s prize

Chair: Sylvie Lambert (PSE, INRAE)

09.15-09:30 – Introduction – Research Session
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT, CEPR)

09:30-10:30 – Invited research paper
Social Protection: Evidence from Indonesia
Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School, CEPR)
Discussant: Luc Behaghel (PSE, INRAE)

10:30-11:00 – Coffee break

11:00-12:00 – Invited research paper
Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries
Dean Karlan (Northwestern University, USAID, CEPR)
Discussant: Karen Macours (PSE, INRAE, CEPR)

12:00-13:00 – Presentations by PhD students selected by the CEPR call for papers

A Travesty of Justice: Unintended Consequences of Anti-Corruption Efforts
Ali Bakhtawar (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

Subsidy, Shirking, and Strategy: Assessing the Effects of Consumption Subsidies on Worker Effort and Intervening Strategies
Ratchanon Chotiputsilp (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Heterogeneous Impacts of Education Policies by Gender and Culture
Kotaro Fujisaki (UCL – London’s Global University)

Closing the Gender Gap: Evidence from Private School Participation in Free Secondary Education in Uganda
Simeon Lauterbach (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Campaign Finance Quotas and Descriptive Representation: Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2022
Felipe Lauritzen (Sciences Po)

Scorching Heat and Shrinking Horizons: The Impact of Rising Temperatures on Marriages and Migration in Rural India
Manisha Mukherjee (Maastricht University, UNU-MERIT)

13:00-14:15 – Lunch break and Poster Session by PhD students

14:15-15:15 – Invited research paper
Should cash transfers be universal, basic, or income?
Paul Niehaus (UC San Diego)
Discussant: Liam Wren-Lewis (PSE, INRAE)

15:15-16:00 – Coffee break and Poster Session by PhD students

16:00-17:00 – Keynote Lecture
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT, CEPR)

17:00-18:00 – Policy Conversation

• Iffath Sharif (Global Director for Social Protection and Jobs at the World Bank)
• Abhijit Banerjee (MIT, CEPR)
• Moderated by Thomas Melonio (AFD)

Chair: Marc Fleurbaey (PSE, CNRS)

09:00 – Registration and welcome coffee

09:30-11:00 – Keynote lecture: “Inequality and sustainability : a comparative and historical perspective”
Thomas Piketty (PSE, CEPR)

11:00-11:30 – Coffee break

11:30-12:30 – Invited research paper
“Global inequality and climate change”
Lucas Chancel (Sciences Po)
Discussant: Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

12:30-14:15 – Lunch break and Poster Session of the Junior researchers

14:15-15:15 – Presentations of the Junior researchers selected by the CEPR call for papers

How market structure shapes entrepreneurship and inequality
Shubhdeep Deb (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

The firm as tax shelter: using business resources for final consumption
David Leite (PSE, EHESS)

The take-up of in-work benefits: evidence from a french program
Claire Leroy (CREST)

The college melting pot: peers, culture and women’s job search
Federica Meluzzi (CREST)

In family’s footstep: do we gain from occupational persistence?
Maria Ventura (London School of Economics)

The impact of youth centres on crime
Carmen Villa-Llera (University of Warwick)

16:15-17:00 – Coffee break and Poster Session of the Junior researchers

17:00-18:00 – Policy conversation

• Thomas Piketty (PSE, CEPR)
• Orsetta Causa (OECD)
• Moderated by Tim Phillips (CEPR VoxTalks)

Chair: Gilles Saint-Paul (PSE, ENS-PSL)

09:30 – Registration and welcome coffee

10:00-11:30 – Keynote lecture: “The inflation burst. An (anticipatory) autopsy”
Olivier Blanchard (PSE, CEPR)

11:30-12:00 – Coffee break

12:00-13:00 – Presentations of the Junior researchers selected by the CEPR call for papers

The granular origins of inflation and its international co-movement
Santiago Alvarez-Blaser (University of Basel)

Energy prices and household heterogeneity: monetary policy in a gas-TANK
Jenny Chan (Bank of England)

Curtailment of economic activity and labour inequalities
Erminia Florio (University of Rome)

A non-homothetic price index and cost-of-living inequality
Philipp Hochmuth (Stockholm University)

Optimal monetary policy in a currency area with differential financial development
Kadir Özen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Winners and losers from unexpected inflation
Filippo Pallotti (University College London)

13:00-14:45 – Lunch break and Poster Session of the Junior researchers

14:45-16:00 – Invited research paper
“Inflation distorts relative prices : theory and evidence”
Klaus Adam (University of Mannheim, CEPR)
Discussant: Magali Marx (Banque de France)

16:00-17:15 – Invited research paper
“Macroeconomic expectations and limited awareness”
Luigi Iovino (Bocconi University, CEPR)
Discusant: Tobias Broer (PSE, CEPR)

17:15-18:00 – Coffee break and Poster Session of the Junior researchers

18:00-19:00 – Policy conversation

• Olivier Blanchard (PSE, CEPR)
• François Villeroy de Galhau (Banque de France)
• Moderated by Natacha Valla (Sciences Po, CEPR)

Chair: Thierry Verdier (PSE, EHESS)

09:00 – Registration and welcome coffee

09:30-11:00 – Keynote lecture: “Nation building : big lessons from successes and failures”
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE, CEPR)

11:00-11:30 – Coffee break

11:30-12:30 – Invited research paper
“Fact-checking politicians”
Andrea Mattozzi (University of Bologna, CEPR)
Discussant: Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po, CEPR)

12:30-14:15 – Lunch break and Poster Session of the Junior researchers

14:15-15:15 – Presentations of the Junior researchers selected by the CEPR call for papers

The consequences of a trade collapse: economics and politics in Weimar Germany
Björn Brey (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Clan culture, Internet search and political participation: evidence from China
Sixuan Li (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Party lines or voter preferences? explaining political realignment
Nicolas Longuet Marx (Columbia University)

Sanctions and misallocation. How sanctioned firms won and Russia lost
Dzhamilya Nigmatulina (HEC Lausanne)

Affirming the racial divide? The political consequences of affirmative action in Brazil
Laura Perez-Cervera (Queen Mary University of London)

Corporate bankruptcy and banking deregulation: the effect of financial leverage
Ludovico Rossi (CUNEF Universidad)

15:15-16:15 – Invited research paper
“The political economy of alternative realities”
Ferenc Szucs (Stockholm University)
Discussant: Ruben Durante (INSEAD, UPF, CEPR)

16:15-17:00 – Coffee break and Poster Session of the Junior researchers

17:00-18:00 – Policy conversation

• Antoine Bozio (PSE, IPP, CEPR)
• Paul Johnson (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
• Moderated by Tim Phillips (CEPR VoxTalks)

Chair: Katheline Schubert (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

08:30 – Registration and welcome coffee

09:00-10:30 – Keynote lecture: “Is green growth possible ?”
Philippe Aghion (PSE, CEPR)

10:30-11:00 – Coffee break

11:00-12:00 – Presentations of the Junior researchers selected by the CEPR call for papers

Institutional factors behind the reallocation between manufacturing and service
Tommaso Bighelli (Halle Institute for Economic Research)

Transition to clean energy technologies
Claudia Gentile (University of Zurich)

Environmental regulation and productivity growth in the Euro area: testing the porter hypothesis
Martin Groiss (Goethe University Frankfurt)

The social cost of carbon under climate volatility risks
Xu Lin (University of Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute)

Do policymakers update their views and who do they listen to? Lobbying and participatory democracy in the EU
Rosanne Logeart (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

China’s manufacturing pollution, environmental regulation and trade
Dan Xie (Queen Mary University of London)

12:00-14:00 – Lunch break and Poster Session of the Junior researchers

14:00-15:00 – Invited research paper
“Advantageous selection as a policy instrument : unraveling climate change”
David Hemous (University of Zurich, CEPR)
Discussant: Fanny Henriet (PSE, CNRS)

15:00-16:00 – Invited research paper
“Knowledge spillovers from clean and emerging technologies in the UK”
Ralf Martin (Imperial College London, CEPR)
Discussant: Antoine Dechezlepretre (OECD)

16:00-17:00 – Coffee break and Poster Session of the Junior researchers

17:00-18:00 – Policy conversation

• Beatrice Weder di Mauro (CEPR)
• Jean Pisani-Ferry (Sciences Po, CEPR)
• Moderated by Jean-Marc Vittori (Les Echos)