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• Vendredi 11 décembre 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)

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 13 novembre 2020 11:00-12:30

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

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

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

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 23 octobre 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 19 juin 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

• Vendredi 29 mai 2020 11:00-12:30

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

  HERRERA Helios (U. Warwick) : Séance annulée

• Vendredi 15 mai 2020 11:00-12:30

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

  STURN Richard (University of Graz) : TBA

• Vendredi 27 mars 2020 11:00-12:30

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

  O SULLIVAN Mary (U. Geneve) : Power & Profit: The Economics of Mechanisation in Late 18th Century Britain

• Vendredi 13 mars 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 14 février 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

• Vendredi 31 janvier 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)

  Résumé

  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)

• Vendredi 13 décembre 2019 11:00-12:30

  La séance a été annulée.

  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

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 29 novembre 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 8 novembre 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

• Vendredi 18 octobre 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Mercredi 11 septembre 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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  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 7 juin 2019 11:00-12:30

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

  PEREZ Juan MIguel (Univ.aut.de Santo Domingo /IDEICE) : Economie Politique des attentes sociales des étudiants

• Vendredi 10 mai 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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  Résumé

  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).

• Vendredi 12 avril 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 8 février 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?

  Résumé

  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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• Vendredi 25 janvier 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

  Résumé

  Julian MESSINA Présentera son livre Wage Inequality in Latin America

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 14 décembre 2018 11:00-12:30

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

  M. RANALDI Marco (PSE) : Distributional Aspects of Economic Systems

• Vendredi 30 novembre 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

• Vendredi 9 novembre 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.

  Résumé

  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.

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 5 octobre 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

• Vendredi 18 mai 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 23 mars 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

• Vendredi 9 mars 2018 11:00-12:30

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

  BERAMENDI Pablo (Duke University) : Economic and Political Inequality (book presentation)

• Vendredi 26 janvier 2018 11:00-12:30

  MSE - salle 116

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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 15 décembre 2017 11:00-12:30

  MSE - PARIS 1 - ROOM 116

  POTTIER Antonin (CERNA - PSL) : *

• Vendredi 10 novembre 2017 11:00-12:30

  MSE - PARIS 1 - ROOM 116

  SAVAGE MIKE (LSE) : *

  Mike SAVAGE (LSE)

• Vendredi 27 octobre 2017 11:00-12:30

  MSE - PARIS 1- SALLE 116

  BECKER Sascha O. (University of Warwick) : Mind the Income Gaps? The lasting effect of information on redistributive preferences

  Résumé

  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.

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Jeudi 28 septembre 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Vendredi 9 juin 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)

• Vendredi 5 mai 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

• Jeudi 4 mai 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

• Vendredi 24 février 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?

  Résumé

  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.

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 27 janvier 2017 11:00-12:30

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

  CARBONNIER Clement ( Université de Cergy-Pontoise) : Evaluation interdisciplinaire des impacts du CICE

• Vendredi 16 décembre 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

• Vendredi 4 novembre 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

• Vendredi 14 octobre 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

• Vendredi 23 septembre 2016 11:00-12:30

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• Vendredi 23 septembre 2016 11:00-12:30

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

  CAVAILLE Charlotte (TSE, IAST) : Social Policy Preferences in the Age of Permanent Austerity

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 3 juin 2016 11:00-12:30

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, Salle S/18

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

• Vendredi 27 mai 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE - SALLE S/18

  FERNANDEZ Raquel (New York University) : 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)

• Vendredi 20 mai 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)

  Résumé

  Discussant: Thibault Darcillon (DREES)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 13 mai 2016 11:00-12:30

  MSE - Salle S/18

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

  Résumé

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

• Vendredi 15 avril 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 11 mars 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 26 février 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 22 janvier 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)

• Vendredi 27 novembre 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)

• Vendredi 6 novembre 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)

• Vendredi 16 octobre 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)

• Mardi 9 juin 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)

• Mardi 9 juin 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)

• Mardi 31 mars 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)

• Mardi 31 mars 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)

• Mardi 24 mars 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 24 mars 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 3 février 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 3 février 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 20 janvier 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 20 janvier 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 16 décembre 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)

• Mardi 16 décembre 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)

• Mardi 18 novembre 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)

  Résumé

  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.

• Mardi 18 novembre 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)

  Résumé

  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.

• Mardi 7 octobre 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)

  Résumé

  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.

• Mardi 7 octobre 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)

  Résumé

  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.

• Mardi 8 avril 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)

  Résumé

  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.

• Mardi 28 janvier 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 7 janvier 2014 16:30-18:00

  La séance a été annulée.

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

  HARCOURT Bernard (University of Chicago) : *

• Mardi 10 décembre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 15 octobre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 23 avril 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 2 avril 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 12 mars 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)

  Résumé

  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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Jeudi 6 décembre 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Mardi 6 novembre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 16 octobre 2012 14:00-19:00

  KENWORTHY Lane (University of Arizona) : Social Democratic America

  WORKSHOP

• Mardi 19 juin 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 5 juin 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 29 mai 2012 16:30-18:00

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

  KENWORTHY Lane : *

• Mardi 13 mars 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

• Mardi 7 février 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 17 janvier 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)

• Mardi 13 décembre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 29 novembre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 18 octobre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 7 juin 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Vendredi 6 mai 2011 12:00-13:30

  La séance a été annulée.

  MSE - Salle S3

  MARX Paul (IZA) : Labour Market Dualisation in France

  Discutant(s) : Christine ERHEL

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 14 décembre 2010 10:30-12:00

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

  Co-écrit avec Gerard PADRO-I-MIQUEL

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 18 mai 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 23 mars 2010 16:00-18:00

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

  Discutant : Raphaël Godefroy (PSE)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 janvier 2010 16:00-18:00

  MSE - Salle 17

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

• Mardi 17 novembre 2009 16:00-18:00

  MSE, salle 17, rez-de-chaussée

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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 8 juin 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 8 juin 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 8 juin 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 4 mai 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)

• Lundi 6 avril 2009 11:30-13:00

  La séance a été annulée.

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

  IVERSEN Torben (Harvard Univ.) : *

• Lundi 2 mars 2009 11:30-13:00

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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 2 février 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 12 janvier 2009 11:30-13:00

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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 15 décembre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 1er décembre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 17 novembre 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)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 20 octobre 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

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 9 juin 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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• Lundi 19 mai 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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• Mardi 15 avril 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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• Lundi 14 avril 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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• Lundi 10 mars 2008 11:30-13:30

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

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• Lundi 11 février 2008 11:30-13:30

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

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• Lundi 14 janvier 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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• Lundi 17 décembre 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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• Lundi 12 novembre 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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• Lundi 15 octobre 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

  Résumé

  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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• Lundi 18 juin 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

  Résumé

  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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• Mercredi 23 mai 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

• Lundi 23 avril 2007 11:30-13:00

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

• Lundi 19 mars 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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• Lundi 15 janvier 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

  Résumé

  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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• Lundi 18 décembre 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

  Résumé

  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.

• Lundi 27 novembre 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

  Résumé

  "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

• Lundi 30 octobre 2006 11:30-13:00

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

  Rapporteur : Dominique Plihon

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• Jeudi 15 juin 2006

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

  Co-auteur(s) : N. Canry

• Lundi 15 mai 2006

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

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• Vendredi 5 mai 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

• Lundi 10 avril 2006

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

• Lundi 27 mars 2006

  HAUSMANN R. (Harvard univ.) : Growth diagnosis

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

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• Lundi 20 mars 2006

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

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• Lundi 20 mars 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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• Lundi 27 février 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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• Lundi 23 janvier 2006

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

• Lundi 12 décembre 2005

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

• Lundi 28 novembre 2005

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

• Lundi 7 novembre 2005

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

• Lundi 10 octobre 2005

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

• Lundi 3 octobre 2005

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

• 0000 11:00-12:30

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

  avec Thibault Darcillon (Paris 8, LED)

  Résumé

  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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