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• Friday 3 May 2024 11:00-12:30

  MSE salle 116

  FLORES Ignacio (World Inequality Database, PSE) : Does Land Inequality Magnify Climate Change Effects? Evidence from France

  Abstract

  This paper investigates how the concentration of farmland mediates the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity, with direct implications on resilience to heatwaves. We use a unique combination of French cadastral data and satellite imagery to demonstrate that more unequally distributed land entail greater losses during and after climatic shocks, primarily due to a lack of crop diversity resulting from specialisation. Contrarily to what is found in natural ecosystems in the biology literature, we uncover a productivity-resilience tradeoff, according to which more unequal regions, i.e, less diverse, tend to be less resilient but more productive. Our findings have implications for farmers and policymakers, who should consider these tradeoffs to ensure food security and price stability in the face of the climate crisis.

• Friday 7 June 2024 11:00-12:30

  MSE, salle du 6e étage

  GARCIA-PENALOSA Cecilia (CNRS, Aix Marseille School of Economics, EHESS) ) : Female political rights and technological change: Evidence from Switzerland

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• Friday 5 April 2024 11:00-12:30

  MSE salle 116

  GAYON Vincent (Université Paris Dauphine, IRISSO) : Épistémocratie. Enquête sur le gouvernement international du capitalisme

  Abstract

  Bureaucrates, consultants et universitaires réunis à l’OCDE constituent un microcosme expert et opaque qui impose des politiques régressives à tous les pays dits développés. Ce livre est une plongée inédite dans le gouvernement international de l’économie. Il montre comment se légitime un ordre capitaliste qui fait du chômage et de la modération salariale le résultat des largesses de l’État social. Vincent GAYON, Épistémocratie. Enquête sur le gouvernement international du capitalisme, Collection Microcosmes, Raisons d'agir, 2022, 350 p.

• Friday 22 March 2024 11:00-12:30

  MSE, salle du 6e étage

  DELAINE Estelle (Université Rennes 2) : A l’Extrême droite de l’Hémicycle, Raisons d’agir 2023

  Abstract

  À partir d’archives parlementaires et partisanes, d’entretiens et d’observations, ce livre révèle comment les élus RN bénéficient en réalité des ressources et des réseaux de la démocratie européenne. Ils sont en effet liés quotidiennement à tous ceux qui s’engagent dans le travail parlementaire : lobbyistes, élu.es d’autres groupes, fonctionnaires, journalistes, etc. Technique, multiculturelle et élitaire, la politique européenne n’exclut pas d’emblée les militantes et militants nationalistes, à condition qu’ils en respectent les principes. Les parlementaires RN trouvent alors dans les procédures de proportionnalité ou dans la politique consensuelle de l’Europe des moyens de s’insérer dans les négociations politiques. Ce faisant, ils activent des pratiques qui n’avaient pas été imaginées par l’institution, mais qui ne sont pas fondamentalement incompatibles avec les usages et règlements. Ce militantisme en col blanc combine normalisation et subversion des règles du jeu parlementaire : c’est moins le moment d’une transformation du parti par l’Europe que celui de la formation de ses cadres aux activités de délibérations. L’étude des carrières, du travail et des représentations de membres d’équipes parlementaires RN montre ainsi la présence paradoxale de l’extrême droite au sein d’une institution démocratique.

• Friday 9 February 2024 11:00-12:30

  MSE, salle 116

  GRITTERSOVA Jana (University of California, Riverside, Department of Economics and Political Science) : The Great Recession and the Bank of England's Monetary Policy: The Political Ramifications of Ultra-Low Interest Rates

  Abstract

  How and why do politicians' monetary policy preferences differ from that of autonomous central banks? When and why do politicians support and criticize central banks? This paper examines the extent to which the weights on inflation and employment in the preferred monetary policy reaction functions differ between the Bank of England and British politicians in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. I construct a novel database containing politicians' statements about the Bank of England's monetary policy from 2007 to 2017. These are statements extracted from newspaper articles and newswire reports regarding the Bank of England's monetary policy (interest rates and quantitative easing) made by government officials (prime minister and all ministers and Members of Parliament). The paper yields two main findings. First, in contrast to the existing literature, I find that British politicians give more importance to price stability (i.e., call for higher interest rates) and place a lower weight on unemployment in times of crisis. This result may seem less surprising in light of the political and distributional consequences of unconventional monetary policies implemented by central banks as emergency measures after the 2008 global financial crash. Asset price appreciation and rising wealth inequality amid wage stagnation, partly from unorthodox monetary policies of ultra-low interest rates, fueled public discontent and the populist surge across democratic societies. Right-wing populist leaders, drawing on public skepticism toward experts, technocrats, and elites, have emerged as the most outspoken critics of central banks. I argue that established political parties facing dissatisfied voters experiencing economic hardship also shifted their attention from traditional left-right issues to the distributional consequences of exceptional monetary policies as a self-preservation strategy. Second, I also find that the relative weight of inflation performance in politicians' preferred reaction functions decreases in favor of lower interest rates when their re-election chances are high, when a left party is in power, when the public trust in the BoE is low, and when the British pound appreciates.

• Friday 19 January 2024 11:00-12:30

  MSE, salle du 6e étage

  WAGNER Anne-Catherine ((Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CESSP - Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique)) : Les Scop et la fabrique de l'intérêt collectif

  Abstract

  Les Scop, sociétés coopératives et participatives, sont des entreprises qui appartiennent à leur personnel salarié. S'y élabore ainsi une définition originale du capital : lié au travail, attaché à l'entreprise et à sa territorialisation, indépendant des actionnaires extérieurs. C'est sur les conditions sociales d'appropriation de ces dispositifs que porte la recherche. A partir de la présentation d'une enquête auprès de Scop contrastées, on cherchera à rendre compte de la diversité des rapports à la propriété collective et des conceptions de l'intérêt collectif

• Friday 8 December 2023 11:00-12:30

  MSE, salle S/18

  VLANDAS Tim ((University of Oxford, Dpt of Social Policy and Intervention)) : Grey Power and Economic Performance

  Abstract

  Democracies have experienced profound population ageing in the last decades. Yet we still know little about the political consequences of ageing for economic performance. This project develops a theoretical framework linking ageing to lower economic growth through two mechanisms: first, grey power pushes elected governments to expand consumption policies thereby ‘crowding out’ investments; second, ageing populations weaken the electoral penalty for lower growth performance leading to ‘economic unaccountability’. Using microdata from four cross-national survey of preferences and vote choices, I show that elderly individuals care more about pensions, but less about education, and they are less likely to penalize governments for low growth. Using macrodata on 21 advanced economies since the 1960s, OLS and instrumental variable regressions provide evidence that ageing leads to more spending on consumption policies but less on social investment policies, and lower growth. Ageing countries may paradoxically become economically inefficient because they are politically efficient.

• Friday 10 November 2023 11:30-12:30

  MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, salle S/18) 75013 Paris

  VIENNOT Mathilde ((France Stratégie)) : La mutualisation des risques climatiques affectant les biens particuliers

  Abstract

  L’impact du changement climatique sur la survenance de ces évènements climatiques questionne la soutenabilité économique et sociale de notre assurance contre les risques climatiques. Alors qu’une note de France Stratégie s’est déjà intéressée à cet impact sur les réseaux et infrastructures, ce projet questionne celui-ci sur les valeurs résidentielles et son coût supporté par les ménages. Tout d’abord, il est possible qu’un grand nombre de ménages ne puissent pas supporter l’augmentation des primes d’assurances dans des budgets déjà fortement contraints et qui le seront probablement davantage avec le renchérissement du coût du carbone ; ensuite, certains logements en zones particulièrement à risque d’aléas naturels pourraient perdre de la valeur, voire ne plus être assurables ; enfin, le partage du coût des dommages entre ménages, collectivités locales et Etat central n’est pas tranché. Ce projet pose donc la question suivante : peut-on inventer des mécanismes de solidarité collective face à la multiplication des aléas naturels et peut-on mutualiser les risques climatiques sur les biens comme on a mutualisé les risques sociaux ?

• Friday 20 October 2023 11:00-12:30

  MSE salle de 6ème étage

  POLLAK Catherine (DREES-Min. de la Santé) : Behavioral interventions to promote adherence to clinical guidelines

  Abstract

  The talk will discuss some insights from a yearlong research project analyzing the use of behavioral science to improve clinicians’ prescriptions and adherence to clinical guidelines, in particular : What is the potential for nudges to improve guideline adherence ? What can we learn from successful and failed interventions ? How should we design RCTs for evidence-based policies ? And what are the next challenges for behavioral interventions ?

• Friday 15 September 2023 11:00-12:00

  MSE à Paris 1. Salle S18

  JABKO Nicolas : The politics of monetary regime change

  Abstract

  From the 1970s through the 2010s, changes in monetary regime change occurred against a background of important changes in political economy. This paper links the movement from tight money to easy money with the waxing and waning of technocratic neoliberalism. Central bankers’ evolving practices cannot be merely understood as economic learning, since they were attuned to political realities as well as to changing ideas in the economics profession. Neither were these practices simply determined by the ideological environment or the institutional structures in which central bankers operated, since they enjoyed broad autonomy in interpreting institutional rules and in deploying new policy tools. Central bankers acted within the boundaries of their relatively narrow mandates; and at the same time they were highly creative in overcoming the limits of their assigned role. After focusing on the changing repertoires that central bankers perform, I turn to the consequences of these changing repertoires for changes in monetary regimes and in political economy

• Friday 16 June 2023 11:00-12:30

  MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, salle du 6ème étage) 75013 Paris

  DARCILLON Thibault (LED, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis) : Workers’ bargaining power, job quality, and institutional investors: evidence from 20 OECD countries, 1980-2017

  Abstract

  This article investigates the relationship between the share of assets held by different institutional investors as a share of GDP and a synthetic index of job quality in 19 OECD countries from 1990 to 2017. Our first contribution is to provide a new multidimensional composite indicator of job quality based only on objective dimensions. According to this measure, a continuous decline in job quality has been observed in many OECD countries. Second, the emergence of institutional investors as new central financial actors since the 1980s have significantly affected labour relations. To this regard, we argue that the increasing influence of institutional investors through their effects on wages and jobs has contributed to changes in job quality. Using fixed effects OLS regressions, we find some evidence of our main prediction : the share of holdings of assets by institutional investors, especially pension funds, is found to be correlated with a decline in job quality. Finally, we find some evidence for a complementarity effect between unions' bargaining power and job quality: the reducing-effect of the share of assets held by institutional investors is more pronounced in countries which have experienced a decline in unions' bargaining power

• Friday 26 May 2023 11:00-12:30

  salle 116 à la MSE

  HUBERMAN Michael (U.Montreal) : There Goes the Neighborhood: The Contrary Example of Social Housing in Red Vienna, 1923-1933

  Abstract

  Between 1923 and 1933, the Social Democratic municipal council of Vienna constructed 335 apartment houses or community buildings (Gemeidenbauten). About 200,000 inhabitants, or 11 percent of the Vienna’s interwar population, occupied roughly 60,000 flats. My claim is that Red Vienna’s investment boom constituted a “big push.” A hub of activity, the Gemiendebauten gave rise to housing externalities. Business enterprises clustered in neighborhoods adjacent to the apartment blocks because they were a source of consumer demand and a readily available labor supply. Workers flocked to the buildings because of the material and nonmaterial amenities they afforded, and because of their proximity to employment prospects and low priced goods. The quality of neighborhoods improved. The concentration of activity sustained a resilient economic model of growth and redistribution that was cut short by external events.

• Friday 24 March 2023 11:00-12:30

  Salle 1 (rez-de-chaussée), MSE 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  TASSINARI Arianna (University of Bologna) : Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange and wage boosting policies in semi-peripheral economies

  with Assaf Bondy (Haifa University) and Erez Maggor (Tel Aviv University).

  Abstract

  Growth models scholarship posits that wage-led growth has become increasingly difficult to achieve in advanced capitalist economies since the demise of Fordism. The constraints to the pursuit of policies compatible with a wage-led growth strategy could be expected to be even more stringent in peripheral growth models, which rely on exports, suppression of domestic demand and labour disempowerment to relax their current account constraints and achieve integration into global markets. Yet, empirical experience shows that even peripheral economies embarked on export-led growth strategies can experience occasional boosts in domestic demand fuelled by wage increases and social transfers, which might lead to a change of their growth models. How can we explain the emergence of such wage boosting policies in the context of peripheral export-oriented economies? Drawing on the cases of Israel, Poland and Spain since the Great Recession, we identify one common explanatory mechanism for this unlikely outcome: the contingent political incorporation of organized labour through cross-class political exchange in the coalition supporting a country’s model of accumulation. We identify two scope conditions that enable the implementation of such wage-boosting policies in unlikely contexts. Domestic political instability, coupled with a contingent relaxation of prior economic constraints, leads governing parties of both left and right orientation to activate political exchange with unions, resulting in the implementation of diverse policies boosting both salaries and the social wage. Nonetheless, the depth and durability of such changes remains conditioned and fragile. The findings develop our understanding of the role of, and structural limits to, organized labour agency to achieve wage growth in export-oriented peripheral economies.

• Friday 10 February 2023 11:00-12:30

  salle 116, MSE 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  KOREH Michal (University of Haifa, School of Social Work, Israël) : The politics of social insurance sutnability

  Abstract

  The paper looks at the 'politics of social insurance sustainability' and specifically examines the decision making process behind failed attempts to introduce actuarial balancing rules. While I use the Israeli case to develop and test my assumptions, one of the motivation behind the study was a survey, done by ISSA (International social security association) that has found that in 50% of the social security institutions that participated in the survey actuarial equilibrium standards and the measures to assess them were not defined in legislation. Furthermore in 65% of the institutions, countries did not specify the actions/measures to be taken if and when interruptions to actuarial equilibrium are forecasted. Building on the welfare - finance literature, the paper argues and finds that Actuarial rules tap into intra-institutional relations, affect state agencies respective ability to fulfill their missions, and hence become a terrain of intra-state conflict. These conflicts, at least in the Israeli case, explain why actuarial rules in the Israeli social insurance system were never adopted, despite repeated attempts to install them.

• Friday 20 January 2023 11:00-12:30

  salle du 6e, MSE, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  DUBOIS Vincent (U.Strasbourg, Sciences Po, SAGE) : Contrôler les assistés. Genèses et usages d’un mot d’ordre

  Abstract

  Contrôler les assistés s’est imposé à partir des années 1990 en France comme un mot d’ordre politique, bureaucratique et moral. Jamais les bénéficiaires d’aides sociales, et parmi eux les plus précaires, n’avaient été aussi rigoureusement surveillés, ni leurs illégalismes ou leurs erreurs si sévèrement sanctionnés. Ce renforcement du contrôle n’est cependant pas réductible à des préoccupations financières. Ainsi, moins sévèrement réprimés, l’évasion fiscale ou les défauts de paiement des cotisations sociales par les employeurs atteignent des montants sans commune mesure avec ceux qui concernent les erreurs ou abus des bénéficiaires d’aides sociales, traqués sans relâche. Un mécanisme implacable à plusieurs facettes sous-tend cette spirale rigoriste à l’égard des assistés?: des leaders politiques qui pourfendent la fraude sociale et qui parviennent à stigmatiser leurs contradicteurs comme naïfs ou complices?; des administrations qui surenchérissent dans des technologies de contrôle toujours plus performantes?; une division du travail bureaucratique qui déréalise et déshumanise le traitement des cas?; le fonctionnement interne de commissions où la clémence est toujours plus difficile à défendre que la sévérité?; le point d’honneur professionnel du contrôleur de la caisse locale qui traque la moindre erreur au nom de l’exactitude des dossiers. Au nom de la responsabilisation individuelle, de la lutte contre l’abus, de la maîtrise des dépenses, un service public fondamental qui vise à garantir des conditions de vie dignes à tous les citoyens contribue désormais à un gouvernement néopaternaliste des conduites qui stigmatise et précarise les plus faibles.

• Friday 25 November 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle du 6e, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  PALOMBRINI Stéfano (U. Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis, LED) : Multidimensional social conflict and institutional change

  with Bruno Amable (Université de Genève)

  Abstract

  This paper proposes a political economy approach of social conflict, institutional change and crises based on the diversity of perceived interests among social groups. The multidimensional conflict includes ideology, (formal) institutions, and politics. Each of these dimensions corresponds to a relatively autonomous sphere, which has its own logic of functioning. Social groups may be in a dominant or dominated position in one or the other dimension, and the nature of social conflict reflects the differences in positions of the various social groups in these dimensions. Political stability hinges on the existence of a dominant social bloc., i.e. a social alliance supporting the ruling political actors. The implementation of (formal) institutional change by these political actors is driven by the search for such a support. Crisis situations correspond the rupture of the dominant social bloc. Attempts to emerge from the crisis with the reconstitution of a dominant social bloc will have more or less chance of success depending on the possibility of finding a political strategy that can make the expectations of social groups with different perceived interests compatible. Using examples from the French economic and political situation in recent decades, we show how the proposed analytical framework can inform the study of institutional change in situations of social crisis.

• Friday 14 October 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle du 6e, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  CARBONNIER Clément (U. Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis, LED & Sciences Po, LIEPP) : Décomposition de l’évolution des inégalités en France de 1970 à 2018

  Abstract

  La mesure des inégalités a connu de grandes avancées ces dernière décennies, avec la production de données détaillées et comparables intertemporellement et internationalement. Toutefois, ce grand détail et ces comparabilités se paient en partie par la mise en retrait de certaines dimensions, notamment démographiques et familiales, se focalisant sur des paramètres homogènes et continus : principalement le revenu et le patrimoine. L'objectif de la présente étude est de documenter l'évolution des inégalités de revenu en France sur longue période (de 1970 à 2018), en décomposant cette évolution entre plus dimensions : composition familiale, CSP des hommes, CSP des femmes, revenus du travail, autres revenus, prélèvements obligatoires, allocations et transferts.

• Friday 30 September 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle du 6ème, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  PUCCI-PORTE Muriel (U. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES et Sciences Po, OFCE) : Comment améliorer la situation financière des parents isolés ?

  Abstract

  L'expression "parent isolée" est relativement floue. Les parents auxquels l'étude s'intéresse sont ceux qui élèvent seuls leurs enfants exclusivement ou ceux qui ont opté pour un partage classique de leur résidence (3/4 ; 1/4). L'objectif de l'étude est de mettre à jour les atouts et les dysfonctionnements du système socio-fiscal pour ces parents isolés et d'évaluer des réformes alternatives pouvant être envisagées pour améliorer la situation de ces familles. L'évaluation repose en partie sur un méthode originale de cas types pondérés qui a permis de surmonter les lacunes de la statistique publique.

• Friday 24 June 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle 18, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  STURN Richard (University of Graz, Austria, Institute of Public Economics) : Collective action, public accountability, and decentralization: a framework for polycentric governance

  Abstract

  Based on the dimensions of (1) marketization, (2) political governance centralization, and (3) public accountability regarding technically compound choices (such as the provision of pure public goods), a “governance cube” is introduced for discussing the evolution of governance under polycentric dynamism and transformational challenges. I sketch some of the ways in which this framework is related to/is built upon relevant strands of theory, notably public good theory. It is shown to allow for a symmetric critical perspective on extreme (corner) “solutions”, as well as for distinctions such as the one between market failure and “failure of the market” which may help in steering clear of pitfalls in governance reforms under conditions of current transformational challenges.

• Friday 20 May 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle 18, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  EL RAFHI Bilal (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis, LED) : Like father, like son? The intergenerational transmission of preferences for taxation

  Abstract

  The literature abounds with studies highlighting the existence of strong inter generational correlations, some of which relate to economic preferences. This paper is the first to investigate empirically the intergenerational correlation of preferences for redistribution between parents and children. The main findings using the SOEP data suggest a substantial intergenerational transmission of preferences for taxation. In addition to the fact that the estimated correlations put parental preferences at the head of the determinants of individual attitudes towards taxation, our mediation analysis challenges the impact of some variables considered as key determinants in the literature. This study also shows that the absence of opinion on these taxation issues can be explained by the individual’s parents’ attitudes as well as by the individual’s level of education, gender and political orientation

• Friday 15 April 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan - 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris

  BERAMENDI Pablo (Duke University, Department of Political Science) : Resilient Democracies

  with Carles Boix and Daniel Stegmueller

  Abstract

  What makes democracy survive, particularly in countries beset by high economic inequality and political polarization? In this paper we analyze the drivers of democratic stability in the long run, showing that, while on average inequality and polarization foster social strife and jeopardize democratic life, their ultimate institutional consequences vary with each country’s level of development. Democratic institutions in developed countries remain by and large resilient despite the corrosive impact of inequality and polarization. Democracies in poor countries do not. We test our theory employing flexible semiparametric duration models that capture the potentially non-linear interplay between inequality and development in shaping the probability of democratic survival over time, while allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Our data, which consists of sovereign states and spans over more than a century, includes a novel approach at measuring inequality as both a function of the distributions of assets and flows and the relative weight of different assets in the overall structure of production.

• Friday 1 April 2022 11:30-13:00

  Salle 18, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  BENGTSSON Erik (Lund University) : The Evolution of Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Sweden and the Road from Oligarchy to Democracy

  Abstract

  In the mid-twentieth century, Sweden distinguished itself as one of the most organized and participatory democracies in the world, with high levels of voting turnout and party membership. But in the late nineteenth century the situation was much the opposite – Sweden had for Western Europe a low degree of suffrage, and low political participation. To explain the turnaround, this paper explores extra-parliamentary political activity in the period of the very exclusive two-chamber system of 1866. The contribution of the paper is to explore and describe the evolution of political meetings in Sweden in the final third of the nineteenth century and in this way provide an analysis of the evolution of a democratic political culture, which widened the scope of those who could act and participate politically. The empirical material consists of digitalized newspapers from the south of Sweden in the period 1866 to 1900, studying about 2,700 articles that mention “popular meetings”, folkmöten, which was the contemporary description of political meetings. The findings highlight the existence of a farmer-centred democratic critique in the 1860s and 1870s, which combined proposals for widened suffrage locally and nationally with criticisms of banks and the bureaucracy. In the1880s and 1890s, the social base of the folkmöten widened as urban workers – socialist and anti-socialist – took a greater part, and the ideological composition of the meetings became more heterogeneous. The systematic investigation of newspaper coverage shows that folkmöten were numerous and involved large numbers of people. This indicates that the Swedish population was more politically active than one would infer from looking at the electoral participation, which captures only the activity of the enfranchised, a minority of the population. The folkmöten was a major arena for democratic socialization in a country with an oligarchical political system.

• Friday 11 March 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle 19, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  HÄUSERMANN Silja (University of Zurich, Department of Political Science) : Welfare State Politics in a Transforming European Party System

  Abstract

  The rise of the knowledge economy has changed the social policy agenda in Western Europe and the transformation of electoral competition in Europe has changed the set political movements and parties that shape welfare politics. The result is a new configuration of welfare politics in terms of issues and actors, with the potential to deeply transform social policies in Europe. The talk presents findings from a ongoing ERC-project. It will show that despite these transformations, European welfare politics is still profoundly shaped by a class divide. However, the object of this class divide relates less to the extent than to the type of social policy voters and parties prefer: while working class voters and constituencies priorities social transfers, middle class voters and constituencies emphasize social investment. The talk discusses different explanatory mechanisms for this class divide, putting forward an explanation based on differentials in perceived economic opportunities in the knowledge economy.

• Friday 11 February 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle 19, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  BLAVIER Pierre (CNRS, Université de Lille, CLERSE) : Les enseignements d’une approche longitudinale de la pauvreté. Le cas de la France au cours des deux premières décennies du XXIème siècle

  Abstract

  Cette présentation porte sur les trajectoires de pauvreté dans la France des deux premières décennies du XXIème siècle, afin de discuter notamment la sociologie de la pauvreté héritée des années 1990, centrée sur la disqualification sociale et l’assistance. Elle mobilise pour cela le volet longitudinal à neuf années de l’enquête SRCV (INSEE, 2004-2019), et dans une moindre mesure de l’EDP (2011-2019). Cela conduit à relever que pas moins de 30% de la population française connaît au moins un épisode de pauvreté au cours des neuf années de suivi, et à identifier deux grands types de trajectoires : d’une part une pauvreté transitoire qui se marque par un bref passage dans la pauvreté, et d’autre part une pauvreté chronique qui se traduit par une pauvreté plus durable et potentiellement plus profonde. Nous cherchons alors à préciser les liens entre ces formes de pauvreté longitudinale et celle en coupe, et à cerner leurs déterminants respectifs : les évolutions de situation conjugale, sur le marché de l’emploi, et de l’état de santé sont les trois grands déterminants qui ont pu être identifiés. Cette contribution souligne la pertinence d’analyser la pauvreté de manière longitudinale plutôt que statique, et précise ses formes et ordres de grandeur contemporains.

• Friday 21 January 2022 11:00-12:30

  Salle du 6ème, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  REYNAUD Bénedicte (CNRS, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, IRISSO) : Dynamique de l'emploi et restructuration des postes : une étude empirique sur des données d'entreprises françaises (2002-2016)

  with Thibault Darcillon (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis, LED) et Paul Lagneau-Ymonet (CNRS, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, IRISSO)

  Abstract

  La présente recherche part du constat qu’il n’existe pas de travaux académiques pour la période récente (2002-2018) sur les causes des réductions de postes en France. En effet, ce sujet n’intéresse pas vraiment les économistes, soit qu’ils mettent l’accent sur l’analyse macro-économiques des flux d’emploi, soit qu’ils s’en tiennent aux conséquences de telles réductions sur les carrières salariales, ou sur les performances économiques et financières des entreprises. Nous avons alors construit un entrepôt de données qui comporte des séries relatives à la morphologie de la main-d’œuvre (DADS salariés, postes, entreprises, établissements, DADS salariés au 1/12), aux mouvements de main-d’œuvre (MMO/DSN), à la comptabilité des entreprises (BIC-RN, BIC-IS), et enfin à la structure de l’actionnariat (LIFI). Le champ d’investigation de cette recherche comprend toutes les entreprises qui ont compté au moins 50 postes, au moins un jour de la période 2002-2018. Pour identifier les déterminants des réductions de postes dans ces entreprises, nous procédons en trois étapes. Il s’agit d’abord d’identifier la première variable d’intérêt. Pour cela, nous avons mis au point un algorithme qui détecte les entreprises qui sont en situation de devoir effectuer un Plan de Sauvegarde pour l’Emploi (PSE). Ensuite, un modèle logit nous permet d’estimer les déterminants pour une entreprise donnée d’être en situation de devoir présenter un PSE. Enfin, une régression quantile nous permet d’apprécier la stabilité des effets de ces déterminants sur l’évolution du nombre de postes.

• Friday 10 December 2021 11:00-12:30

  Salle 18, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  VALENTIN Julie (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES) : Rationalité et conséquences de l'externalisation : une analyse à partir du cas du nettoyage

  François-Xavier Devetter (Univ Lille, CLERSE)

  Abstract

  Depuis les années 70, la tendance à l’externalisation des services liés aux fonctions supports (entretien, restauration, sécurité, etc.) est marquée. Elle nourrit une transformation du système d’emploi en favorisant la croissance des métiers à bas salaires. Après avoir décrit cette évolution, nous aborderons trois questions : comment différents modèles organisationnels peuvent entrer en concurrence pour la production de services perçus comme identiques ? comment l’externalisation modifie la définition et le calcul du temps de travail ? et enfin comment la rationalité apparente du choix de l’externalisation s’appuie sur une conception particulièrement restrictive des coûts et de la valeur des services ?

• Friday 19 November 2021 11:00-12:30

  Salle 18, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  PALIER Bruno (CNRS, Sciences Po, Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée)) : Stratégies de croissance dans les économies capitalistes avancées

  Abstract

  Confrontés à une croissance lente et à un taux de chômage élevé, au cours des trois dernières décennies, les gouvernements ont élaboré différents types de réformes économiques et sociales afin de stimuler la création d'emplois et la croissance. On peut appeler ces ensembles de politiques et de réformes des stratégies de croissance. La présentation analysera la diversité des stratégies de croissance, leur contenu et leur impact sur les régimes de croissance dans les économies capitalistes avancées. Pour ce faire, elle commencera par présenter les principaux défis auxquels sont confrontées les économies politiques, tels que la financiarisation et l'émergence de l'économie de la connaissance. Elle analysera ensuite les différents types de stratégies de croissance mises en œuvre par les gouvernements afin d'ajuster leurs économies politiques nationales à ces nouveaux contextes. Elle soulignera que les réformes du marché du travail, de l'éducation et de la protection sociale jouent un rôle clé dans la mise en œuvre de ces stratégies de croissance. Il soulignera que l'on peut identifier cinq stratégies de croissance principales à associer à cinq types de réformes sociales particulières : l'exportation de produits manufacturés de haute qualité (à associer à la dualisation du marché du travail et de la protection sociale) ; l'exportation de services dynamiques (à associer à l'investissement social) ; la croissance tirée par les exportations financée par les IDE (à associer à une politique d'attractivité fiscal et social), la consommation intérieure tirée par la financiarisation (à associer à la marchandisation de la protection sociale) et la consommation intérieure tirée par les salaires et le bien-être (à associer au protectionnisme social). Sous la pression européenne, cette dernière stratégie s'est orientée vers une compétitivité par l'appauvrissement. La présentation s’appuiera sur les principaux résultats d’un ouvrage collectif publié début 2021: Hassel, Anke, Palier, Bruno (Eds.) , Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies, How have growth regimes evolved ? Oxford : Oxford University Press.

• Friday 15 October 2021 11:00-12:30

  Salle 18, Maison des Sciences Économiques, 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  BÜRBAUMER Benjamin (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, CEPN) : L'infrastructure technique comme obstacle à la libéralisation commerciale : Le cas du TAFTA

  Abstract

  La convergence des normes et réglementations techniques entre différents pays figure parmi les sujets principaux en matière de libéralisation commerciale. En même temps, cette convergence est particulièrement délicate. S’accorder sur des mesures de libéralisation derrière les frontières nationales nécessite la mobilisation d’une expertise hautement spécifique et une confiance élevée entre les parties prenantes. La convergence technique implique également un changement institutionnel susceptible de modifier les avantages compétitifs encastrés dans les infrastructures techniques existantes. A partir d’une base de données originale sur les négociations secrètes du TAFTA entre les Etats-Unis et l’Union européenne, établie à travers une enquête de Terrain, ce papier propose une perspective d'économie politique internationale sur la libéralisation technique, à la croisée de l’école néo-gramscienne et de l'institutionnalisme historique. En mettant l’accent sur le rôle de forces sociales dans la formation de la politique commerciale, cette recherche soutient que le TAFTA n’a pas simplement échoué à cause de pressions protectionnistes conjoncturelles (Trump, mouvement social). Il s’est plutôt effondré de l’intérieur parce que les deux parties ont mené une bataille sans concessions autour de l’élaboration d’une infrastructure technique transatlantique et la réglementation spécifique du capitalisme de plateforme. Les données indiquent notamment que chaque partie a tenté l’extension de sa propre infrastructure technique vers l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, voire au-delà, et d’améliorer ainsi la compétitivité de ses entreprises domestiques. Représentant un moment institutionnalisé de compétition pré-marché, la convergence technique offre néanmoins la possibilité de durablement structurer les flux commerciaux internationaux. Par conséquent, même si le TAFTA a échoué, son ressort persiste et annonce de nouvelles batailles sur les normes et les réglementations techniques.

• Friday 1 October 2021 11:00-12:30

  Via ZOOM ET Salle du 6è, Maison des Sciences Economiques 112 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

  BOYER Marcel (Université de Montréal) : PLATFORM CAPITALISM : A SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

  Abstract

  The emergence of multinational platforms organizing the interplay of a multiplicity of firms and consumers is analyzed by various disciplines of the social sciences. Economic history shows that since the rise of merchant capitalism, market formation is an endogenous process whereby intermediaries discover new sources of profit. Therefore Alfred Marshall‘s theorizing is more useful than Walras’ and contemporary static microeconomics. The economic sociology of market creation also delivers precious insights. Both approaches allow detecting the continuities and ruptures brought by contemporary platforms, defined specific industrial organizations. The transnational scope of GAFA gives an unprecedented impetus to the role of increasing returns to scale and helps in capturing the benefits of intangible capital on very liquid financial markets. Against the hypothesis of a technological determinism, various types of platform may coexist and delineate contrasted reconfigurations of the modern world: a market led platform capitalism in the US, a panoptic control society in China, whereas ideally the European Union aims at converting information into a global Common, monitored by citizens.

• Friday 25 June 2021 11:00-12:30

  Via Zoom

  LOJKINE, Ulysse (Université Paris X Nanterre et PSE) : Malheureuse à sa façon : la désyndicalisation dans quatre pays européens

  avec Cyprien Batut (DG Trésor) et Paolo Santini (PSE)

  Abstract

  Les taux de syndicalisation ont chuté dans la plupart des pays riches depuis les années 1970. Malgré cette trajectoire commune, la désyndicalisation n'est pas un phénomène uniforme. Dans cette étude, nous étudions l'évolution de la composition des syndicats depuis les années 1960 dans quatre pays européens : la France, l'Allemagne de l'Ouest, l'Italie et le Royaume-Uni. À partir de données micro, dont les plus anciennes n'avaient encore jamais été utilisées pour étudier la syndicalisation, nous commençons par retracer les séries longues des taux agrégés de syndicalisation, jusqu'ici issues de données administratives, et nous proposons de les corriger pour la France et pour l'Italie. Ensuite, nous retraçons les évolutions de long terme dans la composition des syndicats selon différentes caractéristiques (catégorie professionnelle, éducation, secteur public ou privé, genre). Nous regroupons alors les pays étudiés en deux groupes : en France et en Italie, la composition des syndicats est restée relativement stable ; au contraire, dans les syndicats d'Allemagne de l'Ouest, du Royaume-Uni et probablement des États-Unis, les ouvriers et les moins éduqués sont de moins en moins représentés, alors que les femmes et le secteur public le sont de plus en plus. Nous suggérons que ce contraste s'explique par le rôle institutionnel des syndicats, différent entre les deux groupes.

• Friday 4 June 2021 14:00-15:30

  Via Zoom

  CAVAILLE Charlotte (Université du Michigan) : Fair Enough? Support for Redistribition in the Age of Inequaly

  Abstract

  The public’s reaction to rising inequality in countries like the U.S. or G.B. has perplexed many. Commentators find it surprisingly muted and ponder why support for redistributive policies has not increased. Following President Trump’s election and Brexit, other pundits worry that the public’s reaction is forceful, but misguided. According to this account, immigrants and racial minorities have become easy scapegoats for voters left behind by globalization and technological change. Fair Enough? seeks to advances our understanding of the public’s multifaceted response to rising inequality.

  Full text [pdf]

• Friday 21 May 2021 11:00-12:30

  Via Zoom

  M. RANALDI Marco (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, City University of New York) : Global Distributions of Capital and Labor Incomes: Capitalization of the Global Middle Class

  Abstract

  This article is the first to study global distributions of capital and labor income among individuals in 2000 and 2016. By constructing a novel database covering approximately the 80% of global output and the 60% of world population, two major findings stand out. First, the world underwent a spectacular process of capitalization. The share of world individuals with positive capital income rose from 20% to 32%. Second, the global middle class benefited the most, in rela- tive terms, from such a capitalization process. In China, the average growth rate of capital income was 20 times higher than in western economies. The global composition of capital and labor income is, therefore, more equal today, and the world is moving towards a global multiple-sources-of-income society.

  Full text [pdf]

• Friday 7 May 2021 11:00-12:30

  Via zoom

  O SULLIVAN Mary (Université de Genève) : History as Heresy: The US Great Depression as a Real Puzzle

  Abstract

  In spring 2020, in the face of the covid-19 pandemic, central bankers in rich countries made unprecedented liquidity injections to stave off an economic crisis. Such radical action by central banks gained legitimacy during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and enjoys strong support from prominent economists and economic historians. Their certainty reflects a remarkable agreement on a specific interpretation of the Great Depression of the 1930s in the United States, an interpretation developed by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz in A Monetary History of the United States (1963). In this article, I explore the origins, the influence and the limits of A Monetary History’s interpretation for the insights it offers on the relationship between theory and history in the study of economic life. I show how historical research has been mobilised to show the value of heretical ideas in order to challenge economic orthodoxies. Friedman and Schwartz understood the heretical potential of historical research and exploited it in A Monetary History to question dominant interpretations of the Great Depression in their time. Now that their interpretation has become our orthodoxy, I show how we can develop the fertile link between history and heresy to better understand our economic past.

  Full text [pdf]

• Friday 9 April 2021 11:00-12:30

  via Zoom

  DA SILVA Nicolas (CEPN, Université Paris-Nord) : La sociale contre l’Etat providence : Prédation et protection sociale

  Philippe Batifoulier (CEPN) et Mehrdad Vahabi (CEPN).

  Abstract

  Ce travail a pour objet de relire l’histoire de l’Etat providence français à la lumière de la théorie d’un Etat prédateur. On oppose une approche de la protection sociale portée par l’Etat où la protection est un instrument de la prédation à une approche qualifiée de « La sociale » dominée par un « citizen welfare » et axée sur un auto gouvernement des individus. L’Etat providence est l’aboutissement de la guerre de masse moderne et la politique sociale (notamment la politique de population) est orientée vers les besoins de la guerre. Cependant bien qu’elle soit en partie le résultat de la guerre, la protection sociale trouve aussi ses racines en France dans l’affirmation d’un bien être porté par les citoyens eux-mêmes et non par l’Etat. Les origines de cette exception française remontent à la commune de 1871 et se poursuivent par la création du régime général de sécurité sociale en 1945/1946. On montrera que toute l’histoire de l’Etat-providence français consiste à se réapproprier le bien-être citoyen autogéré par un processus de réformes engagées à partir de 1947. Ce mouvement d’étatisation du “citizen welfare”, en plus de constituer une dépossession du pouvoir politique d’auto-gouvernement des citoyens, s’est accompagné de la marchandisation des politiques sociales.

• Friday 5 March 2021 11:00-12:30

  https://zoom.univ-paris1.fr/j/93744251521?pwd=RGV0cGpxZVBSdzFrTTRNbVU2ZTg5dz09

  NAJI Lllias (UVSQ et EHESS) : La retraite à 60 ans : renseigner le « tournant » des années 1980 par les archives des négociations (1981-1983)

  Abstract

  Le « tournant » des années 1980 représente un objet central pour les approches du changement institutionnel, qu’’il s’agisse de la sociologie des élites, de l’histoire économie ou de l’économie politique des régimes d’accumulation du capital. Cette communication s’appuie sur ces différentes littératures pour contribuer à la sociohistoire de cette période, à partir de l’objet des réformes des retraites. La retraite à 60 ans est en effet annoncée dès 1981 avant d’être adoptée définitivement en 1983, suite à deux années de négociations portant sur le régime général de la CNAV, les régimes généraux de l’AGIRC-ARRCO et le régime d’assurance chômage de l’UNEDIC. A partir d’une analyse d’archives et d’entretiens centrée sur les jeux d’acteurs entre syndicats, patronat et administrations, cette communication présente trois résultats. Premièrement, dès 1982, les retraites sont un champ d’application de la « bataille des charges » menée par le patronat et une partie de l’administration, contre les résistances opposées par les syndicats. Deuxièmement, la réforme de la retraite à 60 ans est située à la frontière temporelle de deux justifications de la baisse du chômage : par l’abaissement de l’âge de sortie de la population active (décennie 1970), et par la limitation du coût du travail (décennie 1980 et 1990). Troisièmement, la fabrication de la politique de retraite participe au basculement vers un régime de répartition de la valeur ajoutée qui s’avère plus favorable aux profits et moins favorable aux salaires, au long des années 1980. Cette communication entend ainsi participer à la connaissance du « tournant » des années 1980 à partir de l’étude des jeux d’acteurs impliqués dans la fabrication des politiques de retraites.

• Friday 12 February 2021 11:00-12:30

  https://zoom.univ-paris1.fr/j/93744251521?pwd=RGV0cGpxZVBSdzFrTTRNbVU2ZTg5dz09

  BONNEAU Maxime (Middlesex University) : Preference falsification in a moral environment

  Abstract

  We study attitude dynamics as regard to preference falsification in a moral environment. Recruited from a pre-survey where they gave their opinion about several topical issues, participants in our online experiment chose an action (basically express again the same attitude or the opposite) during 10 conditional answers. They began in the first conditional answer with nine other group members who were holding the same attitude and end up in the last one being alone with their own attitude. We find preference falsification happens in our study, though moral framing reduces significantly this phenomenon. We find also that, as the level of attitude strength increases, the resistance to falsification increases.

• Friday 11 December 2020 11:00-12:30

  AMABLE Bruno (Université de Genève) : The brahmin left, the merchant right, and the bloc bourgeois. ZOOM :https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/94995153219?pwd=RkFsUkVHV1prbDQ3cDRibzhYSFVkZz09

  avec Thibault Darcillon (Paris 8, LED)

  Abstract

  Changes in the structure of political divides in developed democracies have been the focus of many studies in political science as well as in political economy. Some of these contributions argue that a new educational divide related with the attitude towards globalisation has supplemented and even sometimes replaced the traditional left/right cleavage. Piketty (2018, 2019) for instance finds that the left has become the party of the high-skilled and considers the emergence of a multi-elite party system: financially rich elites vote for the right (merchant right), high-education elites vote for the left (brahmin left). Using ISSP data for 17 countries, this paper tests the influence of income and education inequalities on political leaning and a variety of policy preferences: the support for redistribution, for investment in public education, for globalisation and immigration. Results show that income levels are still relevant for the left-right divide, but the influence differs across education levels. Our findings also point to a certain convergence of opinion among the brahmin left and the merchant right, which could lead to a new political divide beyond the left and the right, uniting a new social bloc, the bloc bourgeois.

• Friday 13 November 2020 11:00-12:30

  ZOOM : https://zoom.univ-paris1.fr/j/91056868883?pwd=QU12LzVRZDZ2c3dDdHFpckgrbDRYUT09

  DA SILVA Nicolas (CEPN, Université Paris-Nord) : La sociale contre l'Etat providence : Prédation et protection sociale - ANNULE et REPORTE

  avec Philippe Batifoulier (CEPN) et Mehrdad Vahabi (CEPN).

  Abstract

  Ce travail a pour objet de relire l’histoire de l’Etat providence français à la lumière de la théorie d’un Etat prédateur. On oppose une approche de la protection sociale portée par l’Etat où la protection est un instrument de la prédation à une approche qualifiée de « La sociale » dominée par un « citizen welfare » et axée sur un auto gouvernement des individus. L’Etat providence est l’aboutissement de la guerre de masse moderne et la politique sociale (notamment la politique de population) est orientée vers les besoins de la guerre. Cependant bien qu’elle soit en partie le résultat de la guerre, la protection sociale trouve aussi ses racines en France dans l’affirmation d’un bien être porté par les citoyens eux-mêmes et non par l’Etat. Les origines de cette exception française remontent à la commune de 1871 et se poursuivent par la création du régime général de sécurité sociale en 1945/1946. On montrera que toute l’histoire de l’Etat-providence français consiste à se réapproprier le bien-être citoyen autogéré par un processus de réformes engagées à partir de 1947. Ce mouvement d’étatisation du “citizen welfare”, en plus de constituer une dépossession du pouvoir politique d’auto-gouvernement des citoyens, s’est accompagné de la marchandisation des politiques sociales.

• Friday 23 October 2020 11:00-12:30

  TIM VLANDAS (Oxford Institute of Social Policy) : The political effects of ageing on the economy - ZOOM : https://zoom.univ-paris1.fr/j/97180134474?pwd=L1RVd2RSMXhDWXVZVGtmVzhKQTdCQT09

  Abstract

  This article investigates the economic consequences of long term changes in the composition of the electorate. It focuses on the effects of ageing on the economy that operate through the growing political influence of the elderly on public policies. Since the elderly may have different policy preferences, their growing numbers and political power increasingly shape the policies and priorities that electorally responsive governments choose to pursue, with important effects on economic performance. Most research in economics, political science, social policy, sociology and population studies that either theorises the direct economic impact of ageing on the economy or the direct political impact of ageing on public policies. By contrast, I explore a third possibility, namely that the growing political power of the elderly may indirectly affect the economy. Specifically, I argue that ageing leads to lower economic growth both because the elderly direct resources in less efficient ‘consumption’ policies - instead of ‘social investment’ policies (crowding out mechanism), and because they do not penalise governments for poor economic performance as much as economically active electorate (‘unaccountability’ mechanism). To substantiate these claims, I provide evidence for the different policy preferences of the elderly, the ways parties adjust their party manifestos when faced with ageing electorates, and how the elderly penalise governments for economic mismanagement differently from the rest of the electorate. I then show that the share of the elderly is associated with more spending on pensions and health care, but less on childcare, family and labour market policies. As a result, ageing is negatively correlated with economic growth in advanced economies since the 1960s. Thus, ageing may lead to economic decline in democratic advanced capitalist countries.

• Friday 19 June 2020 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, Salle 18 (nouveau bâtiment), 106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013

  IVERSEN Torben (Harvard University) : Présentation de l'ouvrage "Democracy and Prosperity Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century

  D. Soskice

• Friday 29 May 2020 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, Salle 18 (nouveau bâtiment),106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013

  HERRERA Helios (Warwick) : Séance annulée

• Friday 15 May 2020 11:00-12:30

  MSE, Salle -, 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  STURN Richard (University of Graz, Austria, Institute of Public Economics) : TBA

• Friday 27 March 2020 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, Salle 18 (nouveau bâtiment), 106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013

  O SULLIVAN Mary (Université de Genève) : Power & Profit: The Economics of Mechanisation in Late 18th Century Britain

• Friday 13 March 2020 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, grande salle - 6e étage, 106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013

  PRASAD Monica (U. Northwestern) : Présentation de l'ouvrage Starving The Beast, Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut's Revolution suivie d'une table ronde

  Abstract

  Since the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regardless of whether the economy is booming or in recession or whether the federal budget is in surplus or deficit. In Starving the Beast, sociologist Monica Prasad uncovers the origins of the GOP’s relentless focus on tax cuts and shows how this is a uniquely American phenomenon.Drawing on never-before seen archival documents, Prasad traces the history of the 1981 tax cut—the famous “supply side” tax cut, which became the cornerstone for the next several decades of Republican domestic economic policy. She demonstrates that the main impetus behind this tax cut was not business group pressure, racial animus, or a belief that tax cuts would pay for themselves. Rather, the tax cut emerged because in America--unlike in the rest of the advanced industrial world—progressive policies are not embedded within a larger political economy that is favorable to business. Since the end of World War II, many European nations have combined strong social protections with policies to stimulate economic growth such as lower taxes on capital and less regulation on businesses than in the United State. Meanwhile, the United States emerged from World War II with high taxes on capital and some of the strongest regulations on business in the advanced industrial world. This adversarial political economy could not survive the economic crisis of the 1970s.Starving the Beast suggests that taking inspiration from the European model of progressive policies embedded in market-promoting political economy could serve to build an American economy that works better for all.

• Friday 14 February 2020 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, Salle 18 (nouveau bâtiment), 106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013

  NEUGSCHWENDER Jörg (LIS) : Pension systems and (re)distributive outcomes: a comparative approach

• Friday 31 January 2020 11:00-12:30

  MSE, Salle 19 (Nouveau Bât.) 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  TADJEDDINE YAMINA Yamina (Université de Lorraine, BETA) : La diversité des capitalismes financiers, le cas des Fusions-Acquisitions en France

  Sylvain Thine (CESSP-EHESS)

  Abstract

  Les opérations de fusions acquisitions sont des moments particuliers sur le marché du capital car elles finalisent un arrangement marchand: le capital d’une PME ou la filiale d’un groupe qui n’existait pas en tant qu’objet échangeable librement sur un marché, se trouve doter de qualités marchandes, d’une valeur financière et fait l’objet d’un achat. Observer ces opérations permet de comprendre comment le capital d’une entreprise devient un objet financier. Pour aborder empiriquement le secteur des fusions-acquisitions, nous avons travaillé sur la base CARFI qui a recensé 363 opérations de FUSAC en 2010 en France. Nous avons complété cette base en ajoutant le niveau des organisations financières. Nous avons mené une ACM qui nous a permis de distinguer trois régimes financiers : le capitalisme bancaire impliquant les banques européennes, le capitalisme financier lié à la présence de banques d’investissement américaines et le capitalisme financier d’entreprise associé à des conseillers indépendants. La discussion sera introduite par Thibault DARCILLON (U. Paris 8)

• Friday 13 December 2019 11:00-12:30

  The session was canceled.

  MSE, Salle 18 (Nouveau Bât) 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  TADJEDDINE Yamina (U. Lorraine) : La diversité des capitalismes financiers, le cas des Fusions-Acquisition en France

  Abstract

  Les opérations de fusions acquisitions sont des moments particuliers sur le marché du capital car elles finalisent un arrangement marchand: le capital d’une PME ou la filiale d’un groupe qui n’existait pas en tant qu’objet échangeable librement sur un marché, se trouve doter de qualités marchandes, d’une valeur financière et fait l’objet d’un achat. Observer ces opérations permet de comprendre comment le capital d’une entreprise devient un objet financier. Pour aborder empiriquement le secteur des fusions-acquisitions, nous avons travaillé sur la base CARFI qui a recensé 363 opérations de FUSAC en 2010 en France. Nous avons complété cette base en ajoutant le niveau des organisations financières. Nous avons mené une ACM qui nous a permis de distinguer trois régimes financiers : le capitalisme bancaire impliquant les banques européennes, le capitalisme financier lié à la présence de banques d’investissement américaines et le capitalisme financier d’entreprise associé à des conseillers indépendants.

• Friday 29 November 2019 11:00-12:30

  MSE, Salle 18 (Nouveau Bât) 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  CHAUVEL Louis (U. Luxembourg) : On the way to extreme inequality. A New Method to Measure Changes in Income and Wealth Distributions: Results on the United States, 1995 to 2013

  Eyal Bar-Haim, Anne Hartung, Philippe Van Kerm

  Abstract

  The study of joint income and wealth distributions is important to the understanding of economic inequality. However, these are extremely skewed variables that present tails containing strategic information that usual methods – such as percentile grouping – cannot easily reveal. The well-known indices proposed by Anthony Atkinson are more flexible as they allow for adjusting sensitivity at different parts of the distribution. In this paper, we propose a method that distinguishes inequality at different points of the distribution. More specifically, we propose a new method providing a more appropriate examination of tails: the isograph and the logitrank. These tools offer a more detailed conception of inequality. Using US data 1995-2013 from the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS), we find first that income inequality increased significantly, in particular in the upper middle classes. Second, the wealth-to-income ratio measuring the importance of wealth relative to income, increased significantly. The association between high wealth and high incomes, fourth, increased as well. Based on our analysis, we can conclude that this increase in the association between wealth and income is not a trivial consequence of increasing inequality, but a stronger coherence of the diagonal at the top of the income and wealth distributions.

• Friday 8 November 2019 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, Salle 18 (Nouveau Bât) 106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013

  GODIN Romaric (Journaliste Mediapart) : Présentation de l'ouvrage "La guerre sociale en France", discussion Stefano PALOMBARINI

• Friday 18 October 2019 11:00-12:30

  MSE, Salle 18 (nouveau Bât) 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  LINDVALL Johannes (U.Lind) : Unions and Migrant Rights in the Long Run

  Frida Boräng, Sara Kalm

  Abstract

  We use historical data on union density and new historical data on the egal status of resident migrants to study the long-run relationship between the strength of trade unions and the social rights of migrants in Western Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region. In countries with strong trade unions, there was, for a long time, a widening gap between the rights of migrants and the rights of natives, since the rights of citizens expanded sooner and more quickly than the rights of migrants. Over time, however, the difference between countries with strong and weak unions have diminished, and in more recent times, the “rights gap” between citizens and migrants has in fact been smaller in countries with strong unions than in countries with weak unions.

• Wednesday 11 September 2019 10:30-12:00

  MSE, salle du 6éme, 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  MILANOVIC Branko (Stone Center, CUNY) : Capitalism, Alone. The Future of the System That Rules the World.

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  Abstract

  We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: What are the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the only game in town? His conclusions are sobering, but not fatalistic. Capitalism gets much wrong, but also much right—and it is not going anywhere. Our task is to improve it. Milanovic argues that capitalism has triumphed because it works. It delivers prosperity and gratifies human desires for autonomy. But it comes with a moral price, pushing us to treat material success as the ultimate goal. And it offers no guarantee of stability. In the West, liberal capitalism creaks under the strains of inequality and capitalist excess. That model now fights for hearts and minds with political capitalism, exemplified by China, which many claim is more efficient, but which is more vulnerable to corruption and, when growth is slow, social unrest. As for the economic problems of the Global South, Milanovic offers a creative, if controversial, plan for large-scale migration. Looking to the future, he dismisses prophets who proclaim some single outcome to be inevitable, whether worldwide prosperity or robot-driven mass unemployment. Capitalism is a risky system. But it is a human system. Our choices, and how clearly we see them, will determine how it serves us.

• Friday 7 June 2019 11:00-12:30

  Salle R1.15 Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris

  PEREZ Lucas (PSE) : Economie Politique des attentes sociales des étudiants

• Friday 10 May 2019 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, Salle S/18, 106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013

  ZEMMOUR Michaël (U. Lille, CLERSE & LIEPP) : La distinction entre cotisations sociales contributives et non contributives est-elle justifiée ?

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  Abstract

  Dans le financement de la protection sociale, il est d’usage d’opérer une distinction entre cotisations sociales « contributives » et « non contributives ». Cette distinction s’appuie à la fois sur des considérations théoriques, sur une réalité institutionnelle et sur des conventions politiques. Cette distinction a plusieurs implications à la fois normatives et méthodologiques. D’un point de vue normatif, i) elle conduit à légitimer le financement par cotisations sociales des seuls systèmes d’assurance chômage et retraite, par opposition aux programmes universels ; ii) Le renforcement de la distinction contributif/non contributif constitue la pierre angulaire de plusieurs réformes de la protection sociale, dont celle à venir des retraites. D’un point de vue méthodologique, elle conduit à exclure couramment les cotisations contributives de la comptabilité distributive. Ce travail exploratoire propose un retour critique sur cette distinction, en montrant d’une part qu’elle s’appuie sur une définition ambigüe, d’autre part, que cette distinction construit une représentation du financement de la protection sociale éloigné de la réalité institutionnelle française et Européenne. Ce constat devrait conduire à une mise à distance sinon à l’écart par les économistes de la distinction contributif/non contributif. _________________________________________________________________________________________ La discussion sera introduite par Mathias ANDRE (INSEE).

• Friday 12 April 2019 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, Salle S/18 106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013 Paris

  FRANÇON Baptiste (Université de Lorraine) : Salaire minimum en Allemagne et segmentation de l'emploi

  Abstract

  Dans le contexte d’une croissance sans précédent des inégalités salariales, le gouvernement allemand a introduit en janvier 2015 un salaire minimum légal de 8,5€ de l’heure. Les évaluations disponibles se sont pour l’instant concentrées sur les effets (modérés) sur l’emploi à court terme de cette introduction. Cependant, les modalités d’application de la réforme font craindre que ses effets bénéfiques en termes de gains salariaux soient inégalement partagés : certains secteurs ont vu son application différée ; certaines catégories de travailleurs ne sont pas couvertes par le dispositif ; enfin, les contournements de la loi par les employeurs sont fréquents. Dans cet article nous revenons sur la genèse de la réforme et sur ces difficultés d’application. Nous proposons aussi une évaluation des effets de court terme d’aspects plus qualitatifs de la réforme. Nous analysons à partir du Panel Socio-Économique allemand (SOEP) l’évolution des salaires pour différents statuts d’emploi et caractéristiques individuelles et montrons que la réforme peine à réduire efficacement la segmentation. Nous mettons aussi en évidence des effets pervers de la réforme pour la stabilité de l’emploi des chômeurs.

• Friday 8 February 2019 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, Salle S/18 106-112 Bd de l’hôpital 75013 Paris

  BREBION Clément (PSE) : The ‘strategic discrimination’ of works councilors in Germany: new evidence of the demise of a model?

  Abstract

  This paper estimates the impact of works council membership on wages in Germany between 2001 and 2015. It falls within a stream of research on collective organisations which has moved the focus away from the perspective of covered firms and their average worker to concentrate on the actors leading the negotiations (Breda, 2014). To my knowledge this is the first analysis of non-unionized form of representation taking this orientation. In a generalized context of decentralization of collective bargaining, shop-floor delegates are gaining in power and therefore in strategic importance for both the employers and the employees. Their career evolution therefore has a revealing role of the ‘black box’ of, increasingly, the new core of collective bargaining. The case of Germany is chosen because both national and foreign economic actors have steadily been praising its traditional dual model of industrial relations for the cooperative feature it entails at the shop floor. Yet, as discussed in the paper, it has strongly changed since the German reunification and it is expected that the nature of employer-employee relations also evolved since then. The main model of identification is an OLS with time and individual fixed effects led on a subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel. I find that, for individuals switching status, being a works councilor increases the hourly gross wage by about 5% in the manufacturing sector while a penalty of 4% is evidenced in the private service sectors. Causality is ensured by verifying that wage pre-trends do not differ between the treated and the control groups. I finally bring elements suggesting that the (dis-)advantage of works councilors is mostly experienced by politically involved representatives in both sectors. Bringing back the context, I explain why this may evidence a strategic behavior of rational employers.

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• Friday 25 January 2019 11:00-12:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle S18 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  MESSINA Julian (Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)) : Wage Inequality in Latin America

  Abstract

  Julian MESSINA Présentera son livre Wage Inequality in Latin America

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• Friday 14 December 2018 11:00-12:30

  Salle S115/ MSE Paris 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  M. RANALDI Marco (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, City University of New York) : Distributional Aspects of Economic Systems

• Friday 30 November 2018 11:00-12:30

  Salle S18/ MSE - Paris 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  THIEMANN Matthias (Sciences Po) : The Growth of shadow Banking: A comparative Institutional Analysis

• Friday 9 November 2018 11:00-12:30

  Salle S2/ MSE-Paris 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  DAUMAL Marie (LED Université Paris 8) : The Economic and Political Causes of the 2008 US.Financial Crisis.

  Abstract

  In 2008, the financial system of the United States teetered on the brink of collapse. Major banks failed or would have failed had it not been for financial support from the U.S. government. Subsequently, the financial crisis had a negative impact on the real economy, causing unemployment and poverty. A vast literature composed of official reports, books, and academic papers cites multiple reasons why it occurred: inappropriate deregulation, weak supervision, excessive risk and leverage, growing inequality, etc. Reviewing recent research and the report by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, my purpose is to list and to synthesize the most commonly cited major causes. In a first part, this paper gives a short overview of the economic causes of the U.S. financial crisis. The second part deals with the political causes of the financial crisis. Indeed, since the 1980s, there was a remarkable bipartisan consensus in Washington in favor of deregulation, which, in turn, led to the financial crisis. I provide a few hypotheses and qualitative data to explain this consensus. Ideology, campaign contributions by private firms, lobbying, and the system of revolving doors between Wall Street and Washington might explain the past and current political decisions in favor of deregulation. One finding of this paper is that the financial crisis was due to inappropriate deregulation, which might have been the result of flaws in the political system of the United States.

  Full text [pdf]

• Friday 5 October 2018 11:00-12:30

  SalleS2 /MSE Paris 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013

  WILBUR Scott (EHESS) : The Relationship between Credit Guarantees and Zombie Firms: Acase Study of Japan's Credit Guarantees for SME

• Friday 18 May 2018 11:00-12:30

  PSE Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris Salle R1-16

  RUEDA DAVID (University of Oxford) : Insurance and Redistribution: An Experiental Approach

  Abstract

  Most distributive theories in political economy understand individuals to be motivated by material self-interest, often approximated by their current positions in the income distribution. It has become increasingly common, however, to also conceptualise material self-interest inter-temporally. This approach extends the more direct focus on effects of contemporary relative income (as in Romer 1975 and Meltzer and Richard 1981) and opens the door to arguments about insurance and risk (as in Sinn 1995; Moene and Wallerstein 2003; Iversen and Soskice 2001; Rehm 2009; Mares 2003), and about social mobility and life-cycle profiles (Rueda and Stegmueller 2018; Alesina and Giuliano 2011; Haider and Solon 2006; Benabou and Ok 2001). Distinguishing between redistribution (in the present) and insurance (against something that could happen in the future), however, is empirically challenging. In this paper, we propose that the effects of insurance motivations on support for redistribution are income dependent. We distinguish our argument from other theoretical alternatives and explore its implications through a laboratory experiment designed to separate the influence of redistribution, insurance and altruistic motivations that we conducted through the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) in the United Kingdom and Chile.

• Friday 23 March 2018 11:00-12:30

  salle/18 MSE-Paris 1, 106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  RAGOT Xavier (OFCE) : Changements organisationnels en Europe : Economie et Politique

• Friday 9 March 2018 11:00-12:30

  S/18 MSE-Paris 1,106-112 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris)

  BERAMENDI Pablo (Duke University, Department of Political Science) : Economic and Political Inequality (book presentation)

• Friday 26 January 2018 11:00-12:30

  MSE - salle 116

  MEYER Meg (Oxford) : Hollowed Out: Labor Market Polarization, and Trade Union Decline
  Discutant : Thibault DARCILLON (UP8)

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• Friday 15 December 2017 11:00-12:30

  MSE - PARIS 1 - ROOM 116

  POTTIER Antonin (CERNA - PSL) : *

• Friday 10 November 2017 11:00-12:30

  MSE - PARIS 1 - ROOM 116

  SAVAGE MIKE (LSE) : *

  Mike SAVAGE (LSE)

• Friday 27 October 2017 11:00-12:30

  MSE - PARIS 1- SALLE 116

  BECKER Maja (Université de Toulouse ) : Mind the Income Gaps? The lasting effect of information on redistributive preferences

  Abstract

  Individuals reject economic inequality if they believe it to result from unequal opportunities. This paper argues income gaps between inborn groups, such as gender or race, serve people as an indication of unequal opportunities. Findings from a survey experiment show Americans underestimate these gaps. When confronted with accurate information participants correct their beliefs and adjust redistributive preferences. A follow-up survey finds these effects to last for over one year and to induce the same preference changes across the ideological divide. In sum, this paper contributes to political economy scholarship that links individual preferences to objective economic reality. Focusing on income gaps offers new ways to explore the political consequences of changes in the income distribution.

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• Thursday 28 September 2017 17:00-18:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, Room 116

  AVRAM Silvia (ISER, U. Essex) : The role of taxes and benefits in smoothing income shocks

  Mike Brewer

  Abstract

  We examine the extent to which the tax benefit system in the UK smooths income shocks across the life cycle between 1991 and 2008. Using the BHPS, we first estimate six different income concepts ranging from individual gross earnings to net household (equivalised) disposable income. For each income concept, we then decompose its variance into three components-heterogeneous growth, permanent shocks and transitory shocks. We then quantify the extent to which variance in income due to heterogeneity, permanent and transitory shocks is affected by four types of policy instruments, namely taxes, contributory benefits, means-tested benefits and other (mainly disability) benefits. Preliminary results show that the UK tax benefit does play an important role in reducing income variance, especially the portions attributable to heterogeneity and to a (lesser extent) permanent shocks. Contributory benefits have the strongest effects, more than halving the variance attributable to heterogeneity and permanent shocks; other benefits and means-tested benefits also reduce considerably the variance due heterogeneity but appear to have a minimal effect on the variance of shocks, either permanent or transitory. Taxes play no role in the reduction of income variance.

• Friday 9 June 2017 11:00-12:30

  room S/18, MSE-Paris 1, 106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris

  AMABLE Bruno (Université de Genève) : Structural Crisis and Institutional Change in Modern Capitalism. French Capitalism in Transition (book presentation)

• Friday 5 May 2017 11:00-12:30

  Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris

  OSE-EPCI workshop: Political Economy of Inequalities: The determinants of Primary Inequalities versus Redistributive Policies

• Thursday 4 May 2017 11:00-12:30

  Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris

  OSE-EPCI workshop : Political Economy of Inequalities: The determinants of Primary Inequalities versus Redistributive Policies

• Friday 24 February 2017 11:00-12:30

  MSE-PARIS 1 - Salle S18

  BUSEMEYER Marius (U. Konstanz, prof invité à U. Paris 1, CES) : Public Demand for Social Investment: New Supporting Coalitions for Welfare State Reform in Western Europe?

  Abstract

  Social investment has become increasingly popular among policy-makers and welfare state scholars. Yet, the “social investment turn” currently remains a very elite-centered discourse, as the existing literature has mainly studied the politics of social investment on the macro-level, investigating the role of collective actors. Citizens’ preferences and public demands towards social investments, in contrast, have not been studied. This paper comparatively studies public opinion towards social investment and social compensation. We analyze, firstly, whether citizens hold coherent preferences on social investment policies at all and how these relate to preferences towards compensatory social policies. We argue that respondents’ welfare state preferences cluster along two dimensions: a social-investment and a social compensation dimension. Secondly, we claim that social investment is much more popular among European citizens than social compensation. Finally, we hypothesize that the supporting coalitions between social compensation and social investment differ in important respects. Empirically, we can draw on a new comparative, representative social survey, interviewing about 9,000 individuals in eight European countries. Going beyond the usual measure focusing on social spending, we surveyed respondents’ support for fictive, but realistic welfare state reform scenarios. Our results show that across Europe welfare policy preferences are indeed two-dimensional (with one important exception). Secondly, we find that social investments are very popular vis-à-vis social compensation. Finally, we show that and explain why the supporting coalitions of social compensation and social investment differ in fundamental ways with regard to the role of material self-interest and ideological positions.

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• Friday 27 January 2017 11:00-12:30

  MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, salle S18) 75013 Paris

  CARBONNIER Clément (U. Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis, LED & Sciences Po, LIEPP) : Evaluation interdisciplinaire des impacts du CICE

• Friday 16 December 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, S18) 75013 Paris

  DARCILLON Thibault (Université Paris 1) : What Determines Top Income Shares? The Role of the Interactions between Financial Integration and Tax Policy

• Friday 4 November 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, S18) 75013 Paris

  KENWORTHY Lane (University of Arizona) : How Big Should Our Government Be?

  Jon Bakija, Peter Lindert and Jeff Madrick

• Friday 14 October 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE, 106, Blv de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris - Salle 18

  RUET Joel (CNRS, CEPN) : Des capitalismes non alignés: des pays émergents, ou la nouvelle relation industrielle du monde

  DARCILLON Thibault

• Friday 23 September 2016 11:00-12:30

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• Friday 23 September 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, S18) 75013 Paris

  CAVAILLE Charlotte (Université du Michigan) : Social Policy Preferences in the Age of Permanent Austerity

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• Friday 3 June 2016 11:00-12:30

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, Salle S/18

  THELEN Kathleen (MIT) : Drift and Conversion: Hidden Faces of Institutional Change

• Friday 27 May 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE - SALLE S/18

  FERNANDEZ-URBANO Roger : Recessions and Normative-Mimetic Isomorphism in Worldwide States Structures, 1970-2013

  Alicia García(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Laura Orellana (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

• Friday 20 May 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE - SALLE S/18

  RAFFERTY Mike (University of Sydney) : Financial Derivatives as Social Policy beyond Crisis

  Dick Bryan (University of Sydney, Australia)

  Abstract

  Discussant: Thibault Darcillon (DREES)

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• Friday 13 May 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE - Salle S/18

  HUBERMAN Michael (U.Montreal) : The 100-year Welfare State

  Abstract

  Discussant: Michaël Zemmour (U. Lille 1, CLERSE/LIEPP Sciences Po)

• Friday 15 April 2016 14:00-15:30

  MSE - SALLE 115

  BLAIS Andre : Linking Party Preferences and the Composition of Government: A New Standard for Evaluating the Performance of Electoral Democracy

  Eric Guntermann, Université de Montréal & Marc André Bodet, Université Laval
  Discutant : Morgane TANVE (U. Lille)

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• Friday 11 March 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital – Room B2.1) Paris 13

  ORLEAN Andre (CNRS-EHESS) : La valeur économique comme fait social : la preuve par les évaluations boursières

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• Friday 26 February 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital – Room B2.1) ...

  R. BUSEMEYER Marius (University of Konstanz) : Public Opinion towards Policy Trade-offs: Investigating Attitudes on Social Investment and Compensatory Welfare Policies with a New Comparative Survey

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• Friday 22 January 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital – Room B2.1) Paris 13

  TINEL Bruno (Universite Paris 1 ) : La dette Publique : Transferts entre générations ou rapports de classes ?

  Eric Monnet (Banque de France)

• Friday 27 November 2015 11:00-12:30

  MSE room 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris)

  HAUSERMANN SiIja (University of Zurich) : Social Democracy, class voting and the welfare state

  GUILLAUD Elvire (University Paris 1, CES)

• Friday 6 November 2015 11:00-12:30

  MSE room 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris)

  VLANDAS Tim (University of Reading, UK) : Getting Old’: the Impact of the Elderly on Inflation Rates in Developed Countries

  FRANÇON Baptiste (University of Lorraine, BETA/CEE)

• Friday 16 October 2015 11:00-12:30

  MSE room 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris)

  GAUTIE Jerome (University Paris 1,CES and ISST) : D’un siècle à l’autre : salaire minimum, science économique et débat public aux Etats-Unis, en France et au Royaume-Uni (1890-2015)

  BOURDIEU Jérôme (EHESS, INRA)

• Tuesday 9 June 2015 16:30-18:00

  MSE(106-112, blv de l'Hôpital-room 19-75013 Paris

  JACOBS Alan (University of British Columbia) : Inequality and Electoral Accountability: How Voters in the OECD Respond to the Distribution of Economic Gains

  Co-authors : T. Hicks and J.S. Matthews Discussant: Michael ZEMMOUR (University Lille 1, CLERSE, LIEPP Sciences Po)

• Tuesday 9 June 2015 16:30-18:00

  MSE(106-112, blv de l'Hôpital-room 19-75013 Paris

  JACOBS Alan (University of British Columbia) : Inequality and Electoral Accountability: How Voters in the OECD Respond to the Distribution of Economic Gains

  Co-authors : T. Hicks and J.S. Matthews Discussant: Michael ZEMMOUR (University Lille 1, CLERSE, LIEPP Sciences Po)

• Tuesday 31 March 2015 16:30-18:00

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) 75013 Paris

  DURAND Cédric (University of Paris 13, CEPN and CEMI/EHESS) : Le capital fictif : comment la finance s'approprie notre avenir

  Discussant: Thibault DARCILLON (University Paris 7, CES/LADYSS)

• Tuesday 31 March 2015 16:30-18:00

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) 75013 Paris

  DURAND Cédric (University of Paris 13, CEPN and CEMI/EHESS) : Le capital fictif : comment la finance s'approprie notre avenir

  Discussant: Thibault DARCILLON (University Paris 7, CES/LADYSS)

• Tuesday 24 March 2015 16:30-18:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital, room 19) 75013 Paris

  KINDERMAN Daniel (University of Delaware, Dpt Political Science/ International Relation) : Challenging Varieties of Capitalism’s Account of Business Interests: The New Social Market Initiative and German Employers’ Quest for Liberalization, 2000–2014

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• Tuesday 24 March 2015 16:30-18:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital, room 19) 75013 Paris

  KINDERMAN Daniel (University of Delaware, Dpt Political Science/ International Relation) : Challenging Varieties of Capitalism’s Account of Business Interests: The New Social Market Initiative and German Employers’ Quest for Liberalization, 2000–2014

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• Tuesday 3 February 2015 16:30-18:00

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) 75013 Paris

  BACCARO Lucio (University of Geneva, Dpt of Sociology) : Determinants of Open-Ended Contracts in Europe: The Role of Unemployment and Job Characteristics

  Co-authors: J. Galindoa and R. Gökhan Koçera Discussant: Discussant: Bruno Amable (University Paris 1, CES)

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• Tuesday 3 February 2015 16:30-18:00

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) 75013 Paris

  BACCARO Lucio (pse) : Determinants of Open-Ended Contracts in Europe: The Role of Unemployment and Job Characteristics

  Co-authors: J. Galindoa and R. Gökhan Koçera Discussant: Discussant: Bruno Amable (University Paris 1, CES)

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• Tuesday 20 January 2015 16:30-18:00

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) 75013 Paris

  CAVAILLE Charlotte (Harvard University, Center for European Studies) : Social Policy Preferences in Mature Welfare States: the Role of Reciprocity

  Discussant: Elvire GUILLAUD (University Paris 1, CES)

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• Tuesday 20 January 2015 16:30-18:00

  MSE (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) 75013 Paris

  CAVAILLE Charlotte (Harvard University, Center for European Studies) : Social Policy Preferences in Mature Welfare States: the Role of Reciprocity

  Discussant: Elvire GUILLAUD (University Paris 1, CES)

  Full text [pdf]

• Tuesday 16 December 2014 16:30-18:00

  Maison des Sciences Économiques (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) 75013 Paris

  SPIRE Alexis (Iris, EHESS) : Comment étudier le rapport à l'impôt ?

  Discussant: Jérôme Gautié (University Paris 1, CES)

• Tuesday 16 December 2014 16:30-18:00

  Maison des Sciences Économiques (106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) 75013 Paris

  SPIRE Alexis (Iris, EHESS) : Comment étudier le rapport à l'impôt ?

  Discussant: Jérôme Gautié (University Paris 1, CES)

• Tuesday 18 November 2014 16:30-18:00

  MSE(106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) Paris 13

  KUHN Theresa (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ) : Transnational solidarity in the EU. Analysing citizens’ redistributional behaviour in laboratory experiments

  Discussant: tba Co-author(s) : Hector Solaz (University of Birmingham)

  Abstract

  The European sovereign debt crisis and the political turf wars it entailed have underlined both the political relevance and the fragile state of transnational solidarity in the European Union. In this paper, we study to what degree German and British citizens display some forms of solidarity with fellow Europeans by analysing their redistributional behaviour in laboratory experiments. We examine to what extent people are willing to redistribute EU-wide, and which personal characteristics make people more generous towards other Europeans. Our analyses find that people are most willing to redistribute locally rather than nationally or EU-wide, and that people’s orientations towards European integration are the strongest predictor of transnational redistribution, while political ideology and inequality aversion don’t seem to play a role.

• Tuesday 18 November 2014 16:30-18:00

  MSE(106-112, boulevard de l'Hôpital - room 19) Paris 13

  KUHN Theresa (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ) : Transnational solidarity in the EU. Analysing citizens’ redistributional behaviour in laboratory experiments

  Discussant: tba Co-author(s) : Hector Solaz (University of Birmingham)

  Abstract

  The European sovereign debt crisis and the political turf wars it entailed have underlined both the political relevance and the fragile state of transnational solidarity in the European Union. In this paper, we study to what degree German and British citizens display some forms of solidarity with fellow Europeans by analysing their redistributional behaviour in laboratory experiments. We examine to what extent people are willing to redistribute EU-wide, and which personal characteristics make people more generous towards other Europeans. Our analyses find that people are most willing to redistribute locally rather than nationally or EU-wide, and that people’s orientations towards European integration are the strongest predictor of transnational redistribution, while political ideology and inequality aversion don’t seem to play a role.

• Tuesday 7 October 2014 16:30-18:00

  MSE (106-112, blv de l'Hôpital - Room 19) 75013 Paris

  PALME Joakim (Uppsala University, Sweden) : The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited

  Discussant: Elvire Guillaud (University Paris 1, CES)

  Abstract

  Welfare States come with different aims. To reduce poverty and inequality figures as a prominent goal, especially in times of rising inequalities. How do we design welfare states to work well as strategies of equality? The ‘Paradox of Redistribution’ (Korpi and Palme, 1998) stated that the more we target benefits at the poor only and the more concerned we are with creating equality via equal public transfers to all, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality. Comparative data for a number of OECD countries concerning the situation in the mid-1980s appeared to be congruent with this hypothesis. More recently, a series of studies seem to call this finding into question. The aim of the present paper is not only to check the validity of some of these claims but also to discuss the political economy argument behind the paradox, examine measurement problems and outline alternative approaches to the study of the relationship between the welfare state and equality. It is argued that we can learn a lot more by (i) putting the generosity and distributive profile of benefit programs into the context of the political economy of the welfare state, (ii) being more specific about program design and target populations, (iii) broadening the perspective of policy instruments, and (iv) extending the accounting framework in order to capture also the 'horizontal' and 'risk' redistributions in addition to the 'vertical' one.

• Tuesday 7 October 2014 16:30-18:00

  MSE (106-112, blv de l'Hôpital - Room 19) 75013 Paris

  PALME Joakim (Uppsala University, Sweden) : The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited

  Discussant: Elvire Guillaud (University Paris 1, CES)

  Abstract

  Welfare States come with different aims. To reduce poverty and inequality figures as a prominent goal, especially in times of rising inequalities. How do we design welfare states to work well as strategies of equality? The ‘Paradox of Redistribution’ (Korpi and Palme, 1998) stated that the more we target benefits at the poor only and the more concerned we are with creating equality via equal public transfers to all, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality. Comparative data for a number of OECD countries concerning the situation in the mid-1980s appeared to be congruent with this hypothesis. More recently, a series of studies seem to call this finding into question. The aim of the present paper is not only to check the validity of some of these claims but also to discuss the political economy argument behind the paradox, examine measurement problems and outline alternative approaches to the study of the relationship between the welfare state and equality. It is argued that we can learn a lot more by (i) putting the generosity and distributive profile of benefit programs into the context of the political economy of the welfare state, (ii) being more specific about program design and target populations, (iii) broadening the perspective of policy instruments, and (iv) extending the accounting framework in order to capture also the 'horizontal' and 'risk' redistributions in addition to the 'vertical' one.

• Tuesday 8 April 2014 16:30-18:00

  MSE-PARIS 1, Salle 19

  LEBLANG David (University of Virginia) : Harnessing the Diaspora: Dual Citizenship, Migrant Remittances and Migrant

  La discussion sera introduite par Hillel RAPOPORT (CES & PSE)

  Abstract

  Countries across the globe are in a continual competition for capital. Diaspora populations—migrants residing outside of their country of birth—are a source of both financial capital in the form of potential remittances and human capital in the form of their education, connections, and skills. I hypothesize that by providing expatriates with dual citizenship rights enables home countries to leverage the financial and human resources of their diasporas, encouraging both remittances and return migration. I test this argument using both migrant surveys and macro level evidence for a large panel of countries over the period 1980-2009 and find support for the hypothesis. The final section of the paper explores the determinants of dual citizenship and finds that states extend this right not only because they are competing for capital but also for purposes of state-building and national identity formation.

• Tuesday 28 January 2014 16:30-18:00

  MSE- Room 19 - 106-112, blv de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris

  BRADY David (WZB) : PARADOXES LOST AND FOUND: THE DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TRANSFERS, RELATIVE POVERTY AND REDISTRIBUTION PREFERENCES

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• Tuesday 7 January 2014 16:30-18:00

  The session was canceled.

  MSE room 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris)

  HARCOURT Bernard (University of Chicago) : *

• Tuesday 10 December 2013 16:30-18:00

  MSE room 19 -- 4:30-6pm (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013

  BUSEMEYER Marius (University of Konstanz, Germany) : The Politics of Opting Out: Explaining educational financing and popular support for public spending

  Co-author : T. IVERSEN Discussant: Michaël ZEMMOUR (University Lille 1, CLERSE)

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• Tuesday 15 October 2013 16:30-18:00

  MSE room 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris)

  KANIOVSKI Serguei (WIFO, Austria) : Theorems for Exchangeable Binary Random Variables with Applications to Voting Theory

  Discussant: Stéphane GONZALEZ (University Paris 1, CES)

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• Tuesday 23 April 2013 16:30-18:00

  MSE-106-112, blv de l'Hôpital-(Salle 19) - 75013 Paris

  FINSERAAS Henning (Institute for Social Research, Norway) : Political Reinforcement: How Rising Inequality Curbs Manifested Welfare Generosity

  Co-author(s): E. BARTH and K.O. MOENE Discutant: Elvire GUILLAUD (University Paris 1, CES)

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• Tuesday 2 April 2013 16:30-18:00

  MSE-106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital-Paris 75013-Salle 17

  CULPEPPER Pepper (European University Institute) : The Politics of Executive Pay in the United Kingdom and the United States

  Discutant: Thibault DARCILLON (Université Paris 1, CES)

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• Tuesday 12 March 2013 16:30-18:00

  MSE - 106-112, boulevard d'Hôpital - 75013 Paris ; 6ème étag

  LEDEZMA Ivan (U. Paris Dauphine, LEDa) : Product market regulation, innovation and productivity

  Co-auteurs : Bruno Amable et Stéphane Robin Discutant : Angelo SECCHI (U. Paris 1, CES)

  Abstract

  This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing industries. We pay particular attention to the influence of product market regulation (PMR) on the innovative process and its consequences on productivity. We test for a differentiated effect of PMR depending on whether countries in a given industry and time period are technological leaders or laggards. Usual policy claims positing innovation boosting effects of deregulation policies at the leading edge are not supported by the data

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• Thursday 6 December 2012 14:00-16:30

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-MSE-Paris 1, Salle 115 (106-

  BERAMENDI Pablo (Duke University) : Europe's Crisis and the Problem of Federalism

  Abstract

  The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution, Cambridge University Press, 2012). Résumé: This book is a study of the politics of redistribution and inequality in political unions. It addresses two questions: why some political systems have more centralized systems of interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political unions make larger efforts to equalize resources among their constituent units than others. This book presents a new theory of the origin of fiscal structures in systems with several levels of government. The argument points to two major factors to account for the variation in redistribution: the interplay between economic geography and political representation on the one hand, and the scope of interregional economic externalities on the other. To test the empirical implications derived from the argument, the book relies on in-depth studies of the choice of fiscal structures in unions as diverse as the European Union, Canada, and the United States in the aftermath of the Great Depression; Germany before and after Reunification; and Spain after the transition to democracy.

• Tuesday 6 November 2012 16:30-18:00

  MSE - 106-112, boulevard d'Hôpital - Salle S19 - 75013 Paris

  VLANDAS Tim (London School of Economics) : Political Economy of wage inequality: Disentangling power resources, wage coordination and egalitarianism

  La discussion sera assurée par Julie Valentin (CES, Université Paris 1)

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• Tuesday 16 October 2012 14:00-19:00

  KENWORTHY Lane (University of Arizona) : Social Democratic America

  WORKSHOP

• Tuesday 19 June 2012 16:30-18:00

  MSE-PARIS 1- Salle 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 P

  VAN DER STRAETEN Karine (CNRS-TSE) : Sorting Out Mechanical and Psychological Effects in Candidate Elections

  Discutante: Morgane TANVE (U. Lille 1, EQUIPPE)

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• Tuesday 5 June 2012 16:30-18:00

  MSE-PARIS 1- Salle 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 P

  PALIER Bruno (Sciences Po) : L'âge de la dualisation : stratégie économique, réformes du marché du travail et de la protection sociale face à la désindustrialisation

  Discutante: Kristel JACQUIER (Université Paris 1, CES)

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• Tuesday 29 May 2012 16:30-18:00

  MSE-PARIS 1- Salle 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 P

  KENWORTHY Lane : *

• Tuesday 13 March 2012 16:30-18:00

  MSE-PARIS 1- Salle 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 P

  KUME Ikuo (Waseda University, Japon) : The Future of Nationally Embedded Capitalism: Industrial Relations in Japan

  Co-auteur(s): Kathleen THELEN

• Tuesday 7 February 2012 16:30-18:00

  MSE-PARIS 1- Salle 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 P

  PONTUSSON Jonas (Université de Genève) : How (and why) is this time different? The politics of economic crisis in Western Europe and the US

  Co-auteur(s): Damian RAESS Discutant: Karim AZIZI (Université Paris 1, CES)

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• Tuesday 17 January 2012 16:30-18:00

  MSE-PARIS 1- Salle 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 P

  LECHEVALIER Sébastien (EHESS, Paris) : La Grande Transformation du Capitalisme Japonais (1980-2010) (présentation d'ouvrage)

• Tuesday 13 December 2011 16:30-18:00

  MSE-PARIS 1- Salle 19 (106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 P

  HICKS Tim (Trinity College, Dublin) : Strategic Partisanship and Left-Wing Policy Efficiency

  Discutant: Bruno Amable (Université Paris 1, CEPREMAP et IUF)

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• Tuesday 29 November 2011 16:30-18:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, salle 19 (106, boulevard de

  LINDVALL Johannes (Lund University) : The Political Consequences of Two Great Crises

  Discutant: Stefano Palombarini (Université Paris 8)

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• Tuesday 18 October 2011 16:30-18:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, Salle 19 (106, boulevard de

  MARX Paul (University of Cologne and IZA) : Labour market dualisation in France. Assessing different explanatory approaches

  Discussant: Christine Erhel (Université Paris 1 and CEE)

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• Tuesday 7 June 2011 16:30-18:00

  ENIKOLOPOV Ruben (New Economic School) : Elite Capture of Local Institutions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghnistan

  Co-auteur(s) : Andrew Beath & Fotini Chistia La discussion sera introduite par Ruben DURANTE

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• Friday 6 May 2011 12:00-13:30

  The session was canceled.

  MSE - Salle S3

  MARX Paul (IZA) : Labour Market Dualisation in France

  Discutant(s) : Christine ERHEL

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• Tuesday 14 December 2010 10:30-12:00

  SNOWBERG Erik (CalTech, USA) : The Lesser Evil: Executive Accountability with Partisan Supporters

  Co-écrit avec Gerard PADRO-I-MIQUEL

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• Tuesday 18 May 2010 16:00-17:30

  MSE - Salle 17

  TIBERGHIEN Yves (University of British Columbia) : "The Rising Inequalities in Japan: A Political Economy Approach"

  Discutant: Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University et OCDE) Séance co-organisée avec la Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS

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• Tuesday 23 March 2010 16:00-18:00

  FINAN Frederico (University Berkeley, USA) : Vote Buying and Reciprocity

  Discutant : Raphaël Godefroy (PSE)

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• Tuesday 19 January 2010 16:00-18:00

  MSE - Salle 17

  IORIO Daniela (University Autonoma, Barcelona) : ELECTORAL UNCERTAINTY AND THE STABILITY OF COALITION GOVERNMENTS

• Tuesday 17 November 2009 16:00-18:00

  MSE, salle 17, rez-de-chaussée

  YARED Pierre (Columbia University, NY) : The Political Economy of Indirect Control

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• Monday 8 June 2009 11:30-13:00

  MSE, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 6ème étage

  ROEMER John (Yale Univ.) : The ethics of distribution in a warming planet

  Discutant:Thibault Gajdos (CES et CNRS)

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• Monday 8 June 2009 11:30-13:00

  MSE, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 6ème étage

  ROEMER John (Yale Univ.) : The ethics of distribution in a warming planet

  Discutant:Thibault Gajdos (CES et CNRS)

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• Monday 8 June 2009 11:30-13:00

  MSE, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 6ème étage

  ROEMER John (Yale Univ.) : The ethics of distribution in a warming planet

  Discutant:Thibault Gajdos (CES et CNRS)

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• Monday 4 May 2009 11:30-13:00

  STORZ Cornelia (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) : Path Dependency and Path Plasticity. Patterns in the emergence of new industries in Japan

  Discutant: Sébastein Lechevalier (EHESS)

• Monday 6 April 2009 11:30-13:00

  The session was canceled.

  MSE, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 6ème étage

  IVERSEN Torben (Harvard Univ.) : *

• Monday 2 March 2009 11:30-13:00

  ZHURAVSKAYA Ekaterina (New Economic School ) : Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia

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• Monday 2 February 2009 11:30-13:00

  MSE, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, salle 114

  GUELLEC Dominique (OCDE) : Survey On Patent Licensing: Results From Europe And Japan

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• Monday 12 January 2009 11:30-13:00

  STREECK Wolfgang (Max Planck Institut) : Endgame ? The Fiscal Crisis Of The German State

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• Monday 15 December 2008 11:30-13:00

  MSE, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 6ème étage

  LLAVADOR Humberto (Univ. of Pompeu Fabra) : An Agenda Setting-Model of Political Competition

  discutant: Guillaume Hollard (PSE)

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• Monday 1 December 2008 11:30-13:00

  MSE, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 6ème étage

  RUEDA David (Oxford Univ.) : The Political Consequences Of Inequality : Wage Dispersion And Voter Turnout As Determinants Of Left Party Politics

  Discutant : Karim AZIZI (Université Paris 1, CES)

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• Monday 17 November 2008 11:30-13:00

  GAUTIE Jérôme (Univ. de Paris 1) : Le travail à bas salaire en Europe et aux Etats-Unis

  Discutant : Gérard Cornilleau (OFCE)

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• Monday 20 October 2008 10:00-12:00

  MSE, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, salle B3-1

  HOLLARD Guillaume (PSE) : An Empirical Analysis Of Valence In Electoral Competition

  Co-auteurs : Fabian Gouret (Université Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée), Stéphane Rossignol (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin) - Discutant : Stefano Palombarini

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• Monday 9 June 2008 11:30-13:30

  LECHEVALIER Sébastien (EHESS & Maison Franco-Japonaise) : The evolution of the productivity dispersion of firms. A reevaluation of its determinants in the case of Japan

  Co-auteur: Keiko ITO (Senshu University) Discussant: Nadia Jacoby (Université Paris 1, CES)

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• Monday 19 May 2008 11:30-13:30

  ALESINA A. (Harvard univ.) : Gender based taxation and the division of family chores

  Co-auteurs : A. ICHINO, L. KARABARBOUNIS Discussant: Daniel COHEN (ENS - PSE - Paris I)

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• Tuesday 15 April 2008 10:00-12:00

  FLASCHEL P. (Univ. de Bielefeld) : Flexicurity, Hetrerogeneous Skills and the Equal Opportunity Principle

  Sigrid LUCHTENBERG (Department of Education University of Duisburg) Discutant : Robert Boyer

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• Monday 14 April 2008 11:30-13:30

  DUBOIS E. (Univ. de Lille 2) : The Political Economy of the Public Finances Situation: An Empirical Investigation with French Data, 1970-2006

  Discussant: Daniel COHEN (ENS, Paris)

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• Monday 10 March 2008 11:30-13:30

  SAUGER Nicolas (CEVIPOF) : Vote choice in one round and two round elections

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• Monday 11 February 2008 11:30-13:30

  EICHHORST W. (IZA) : What have we learned? Assessing labor market institutions and indicators

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• Monday 14 January 2008 11:30-13:30

  BOIX C. (Princeton univ.) : War, Wealth and the Formation of States

  Discutant (s) : K. Van Der Straeten

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• Monday 17 December 2007 11:30-13:30

  REHME G. (Technischen Universität Darmstadt) : Endogenous (Re-)Distributive Policies and Economic Growth: A Comparative Static Analysis

  Discutant (s) : K. Azizi

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• Monday 12 November 2007 11:30-13:30

  KOULINSKY A. (Université Aix-Marseille II) : Y a-t-il un fatalisme néolibéral ? Le dilemme emploi-égalité des revenus revisité

  Discutant (s) : B. Amable

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• Monday 15 October 2007 11:30-13:30

  HOLLINGSWORTH R. (Univ. of Wisconsin) : Transformations in science and a changing lanscape for socio-economics

  Co-auteur (s) : K. H. Müller Discutant (s) : R. Boyer

  Abstract

  This paper argues that a new scientific framework (Science II) has been slowly emerging and is rivaling the Descartes-Newtonian perspective (Science I) which was dominant for several hundred years. The Science II framework places a great deal of emphasis on evolution, dynamism, chance, and/or pattern recognition. As a cause and effect of the new perspective, scholars in the physical, biological, and social sciences are increasingly addressing common problems and are borrowing insights from and interacting with each other. The framework of Science II has enormous potential for social, biological, and physical scientists to focus on problems which should be of fundamental interest to socio-economists. The paper focuses on five problem areas and/or methods in which the interests of socio-economists and natural scientists are converging within the framework of Science II: self-organizing processes, complex networks, power-law distributions, the general binding problem and multi-level analysis. Keywords: Inequality, economic governance, complex networks, power-law distributions, multi-level analysis, interdisciplinarity, path dependency, scientific paradigms JEL Classification: A14 sociology of economics, D002 institutional design, D85 network formation and analysis, P0 general economic systems, P16 political economy, Y80 related disciplines

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• Monday 18 June 2007 11:30-13:00

  LECHEVALIER S. (EHESS) : The heterogeneity of firms: A challenge for the theories of the diversity of capitalism. The case study of Japan during the Lost Decade

  Abstract

  Most of institutional theories of the diversity of capitalism (at least implicitly) assume the existence of a representative firm in each type of capitalism. Based on the case study of Japan during the Lost Decade (1992-2005), this paper aims at showing that this assumption introduces severe drawbacks in the analysis of the Japanese capitalism in crisis. After having proposed a survey of theories of the Japanese capitalism and of its crisis, we assess the increasing heterogeneity of Japanese firms since the beginning of the 1990s, in terms of performances and in term of “models”. We also propose some explanations of this increasing heterogeneity, which concerns firms of similar size and belonging to the same sectors. Then, we show how important it is to take into account this fact to understand the crisis of the Japanese capitalism during the Lost Decade. We propose an alternative interpretation of this crisis – the lack of coordination of an increasing heterogeneity – and argue that it requires a new characterization of the Japanese capitalism. In a final part, we extend our analysis beyond the Japanese case in criticizing the inability of most theories of the diversity of capitalism to take into account the heterogeneity of firms within a given form of capitalism. JEL Classification: B52, D24, L16, L22, P16, P51 Key words: Variety of capitalism, Japanese capitalism, firms’ heterogeneity, deregulation, coordination

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• Wednesday 23 May 2007 16:00-17:30

  FRANZESE R. J. (Univ. du Michigan) : Interdependence in Comparative Political Economy, with Applications to Economic Integration and Strategic Fiscal-Policy Interdependence

  Co-auteur (s) : J. C. Hays

• Monday 23 April 2007 11:30-13:00

  PLÜMPER T. (Univ. of Essex) : Fear of Floating and the External Effects of Currency Unions

• Monday 19 March 2007 11:30-13:00

  MYKHNENKO V. (Univ. of Glasgow) : Varieties of capitalism in Eastern Europe: strengths and weaknesses of 'weak' co-ordination

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• Monday 15 January 2007 11:30-13:00

  BACCARO L. (MIT) : Social Pacts as Coalitions of the Weak and Moderate: Ireland, Italy and South Korea in Comparative Perspective

  Co-auteur (s) : S. H. Lim

  Abstract

  This article examines the emergence and institutionalization of social pacts in Ireland, Italy and South Korea. It argues that pacts emerge as deals between a weak government faced with a political-economic crisis and the more moderate sections of the trade union movement, and are institutionalized when (and if) organized employers come to support them fully. The unions become strategically committed to a social pact if the moderate factions prevail over the radical. Decision-making rules bringing the preferences of the rank-and-file to bear on the process of organizational decision-making seem to help the moderate union factions. The robustness of the analysis is tested by examining briefly a number of counterfactual cases. Keywords: Social pacts, concertation, corporatism, Ireland, Italy, Korea

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• Monday 18 December 2006 11:30-13:00

  BIGNON V. (Univ. de Paris 10) : Arbitrages entre marché et prix noirs Bavarois entre 1947 et 1948

  Co-auteurs : I. Bilon

  Abstract

  Au cours du mois de juin 1948, l’environnement économique de l’Allemagne occidentale a été modifié par deux événements importants : 1/ l’introduction du Deutsche Mark à la place du Reichsmark le 20 juin 1948 qui a été accompagné par une forte réduction de la masse monétaire et 2/ une libération partielle des prix officiels des biens le 25 juin. Dans cet article, nous étudions l’évolution des prix au marché noir de 8 biens dans 68 cantons de Bavière entre juin 1947 et juillet 1948 et trouvons que les variations moyennes des prix de ces biens sont d’une ampleur dépassant largement la seule variation de la quantité de monnaie. Nous montrons alors que ces variations réelles peuvent être expliqué par une modification de l’arbitrage des offreurs entre les marchés officiels et noirs et que cette modification a eu un impact sur les stratégies d’arbitrage des acheteurs entre les différents marchés noirs. Par ailleurs, nous montrons qu’il est raisonnable de penser que la réforme monétaire est au moins pour partie à l’origine de la modification des prix réels au marché noir de ces biens.

• Monday 27 November 2006 11:30-13:00

  CHATELAIN J.-B. (Univ. de Paris 10) : Organizational Paralysis: Middle Management and the Resistance to Change.

  Co-auteurs : Kirsten Ralf

  Abstract

  "We find everywhere a type of organization (administrative, commercial or academic) in which the higher officials are plodding and dull, those less senior are active only in intrigue against each other, and the junior men are frustrated or frivolous. Little is being attempted. Nothing is really achieved. And in contemplating this sorry picture, we conclude that those in control have done their best, struggled against adversity and have finally admitted defeat".(Parkinson [1957]). The paper investigates how each layer of a hierarchy competing in two levels rank order tournaments may decide or not to choose new bottom-up projects with respect to defensive routines. It then considers the stability of the paralytic organizational equilibrium

• Monday 30 October 2006 11:30-13:00

  KOTZ H.-H. (Deutsches Bundesbank) : Les marchés financiers européens : variété ou convergence ?

  Rapporteur : Dominique Plihon

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• Thursday 15 June 2006

  LECHEVALIER S. (EHESS) : Prices, Wages and Mark-Up. An Analysis of The Deflation in Japan

  Co-auteur(s) : N. Canry

• Monday 15 May 2006

  ALARY P. (PSE) : Les enseignements théoriques que livre un exemple de fractionnement monétaire

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• Friday 5 May 2006

  HOWELL D. (New school univ.) : Are Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence

  Co-auteur(s) : D. Baker, A. Glyn et J. Schmitt

• Monday 10 April 2006

  PETIT P. (CNRS) : Processus de régionalisation : le cas du MERCOSUR

• Monday 27 March 2006

  HAUSMANN R. (Harvard univ.) : Growth diagnosis

  Co-auteur(s) : D. Rodrik et A.Velasco

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• Monday 20 March 2006

  DEMMOU L. (Univ. de Rotterdam) : Sector specialisations, nonhomothetic demand and welfare

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• Monday 20 March 2006

  CHECCHI D. (Univ. di Milano) : Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD

  Co-auteur(s) : C. Garcia-Peñalosa

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• Monday 27 February 2006

  GONG G. (Tsinghua univ.) : Deflationary Expansion: an Overshooting Perspective to the Recent Business Cycle in China

  Co-auteur(s) : J. Y. Lin

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• Monday 23 January 2006

  EKKEHARD E. (Centre for macreconomics empirical) : Labor markets and employment in OECD countries

• Monday 12 December 2005

  GUILLAUD E. (PSE) : Evolution des attentes sociales en France et comportement électoral : une crise aux racines anciennes

• Monday 28 November 2005

  BOYER R. (PSE) : From shareholder value to CEO's power : the paradox of the 90s

• Monday 7 November 2005

  ANDRE C. (PSE) : Toward a lesser differentiation of the european health systems for the last twenty years ?

• Monday 10 October 2005

  LOPEZ-DE-SILANES F. (Yale school of management) : Law, institutions and markets

• Monday 3 October 2005

  DELORME R. (Univ. de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) : La complexité en économie : théorie et modélisation intégrative

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  KOREH Michal (University of Haifa, School of Social Work, Israel) : A silent revolution in the contributory social insurance method: Moving away from equivalence and towards ability to pay. A comparative analysis of OECD countries, 1980-2016

  Bruno Palier (CNRS, Sciences Po, Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée) & Michaël Zemmour (U. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES & LIEPP)

  Abstract

  Social Insurance Contribution (SIC) has historically reflected different social goals from other taxation financing mechanisms. In this article we argue that the essential paradigmatic elements of SIC have been thoroughly weakened in recent years. Using OECD tax data, we explored changes in SIC schedules in 17 countries between the years 1981-2020. Our findings reveal a hitherto unnoticed structural change that has made this financing method increasingly similar to the Personal Income Tax (PIT). This change, observed in 15 of the 17 countries, reflects a weakening of the 'equivalence' principle and a shift towards 'ability to pay'. While this shift is expected to increase the progressivity of social insurance, it is also likely to have disturbing effects, such as a decrease in political support for social insurance, which should be investigated in future research.

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  CAVAILLE Charlotte (Université du Michigan) : Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality

  Abstract

  The public’s reaction to rising inequality in countries like the U.S. or G.B. has perplexed many. Commentators find it surprisingly muted and ponder why support for redistributive policies has not increased. Following President Trump’s election and Brexit, other pundits worry that the public’s reaction is forceful, but misguided. According to this account, immigrants and racial minorities have become easy scapegoats for voters left behind by globalization and technological change. Fair Enough? seeks to advances our understanding of the public’s multifaceted response to rising inequality.

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  AMABLE Bruno (Université de Genève) : The brahmin left, the merchant right, and the bloc bourgeois - via ZOOM

  avec Thibault Darcillon (Paris 8, LED)

  Abstract

  Changes in the structure of political divides in developed democracies have been the focus of many studies in political science as well as in political economy. Some of these contributions argue that a new educational divide related with the attitude towards globalisation has supplemented and even sometimes replaced the traditional left/right cleavage. Piketty (2018, 2019) for instance finds that the left has become the party of the high-skilled and considers the emergence of a multi-elite party system: financially rich elites vote for the right (merchant right), high-education elites vote for the left (brahmin left). Using ISSP data for 17 countries, this paper tests the influence of income and education inequalities on political leaning and a variety of policy preferences: the support for redistribution, for investment in public education, for globalisation and immigration. Results show that income levels are still relevant for the left-right divide, but the influence differs across education levels. Our findings also point to a certain convergence of opinion among the brahmin left and the merchant right, which could lead to a new political divide beyond the left and the right, uniting a new social bloc, the bloc bourgeois.

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  BUSEMEYER Marius (University of Konstanz) : Public Opinion towards Policy Trade-offs: Investigating Attitudes on Social Investment and Compensatory Welfare Policies with a New Comparative Survey

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  HÄUSERMANN Silja (University of Zurich) : Social Democracy, class voting and the welfare state

  Elvire GUILLAUD(University Paris 1, CES)

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  MSE B2.1 --11am-12:30pm

  R. BUSEMEYER Marius (University of Konstanz) : Public Opinion towards Policy Trade-offs: Investigating Attitudes on Social Investment and Compensatory WelfarePolicies with a New Comparative Survey

  Julian L. Garritzmann (University of Konstanz)

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  BLAVIER Pierre (CNRS, Université de Lille, CLERSE) : Les enseignements d’une approche longitudinale de la pauvreté. Le cas de la France au cours des deux premières décennies du XXIème siècle