Calendrier du 09 novembre 2017
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 09/11/2017 de 15:45 à 17:00
PSE - 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R2-21
CHALLE EDOUARD (polytechnique)
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PEPES (Paris Empirical Political Economics) Working Group
Du 09/11/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Sciences Po, salle H402 - 28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris
BANERJEE Abhijit (MIT)
Information Delivery under Endogenous Communication: Experimental Evidence from the Indian Demonetization
écrit avec Emily Breza, Arun Chandrasekar and Ben Golub
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Travail et économie publique externe
Du 09/11/2017 de 12:30 à 13:45
BRYSON Alex (University College London)
Union Density, Productivity, and Wages
We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of unionization. The wage effect is larger in more productive firms, consistent with rent-sharing models.
Behavior seminar
Du 09/11/2017 de 11:00 à 12:00
48, bld Jourdan PARIS (75014) salle R2-21
SICILIANI Luigi (University of YORK)
Competition and Equity in Health Care Markets (with Odd Rune Straume, University of Minho)
We provide a model where hospitals compete on quality under a fixed price regime to investigate (i) whether hospital competition, as measured by an increase in fixed prices or increased patient choice, increases or reduces the gap in quality between high- and low-quality hospitals, and as a result, (ii) whether competition increases or reduces (pure) health inequalities. The answer to the first question is generally ambiguous, but we find that that the scope for competition to result in quality convergence across hospitals is larger when the marginal health gains from quality decrease at a faster rate. Whether competition increases inequalities depends on the type of inequality. If marginal health gains decrease at a sufficiently slow rate, health inequalities due to postcode lottery will increase (decrease) whenever competition induces quality dispersion (convergence). Competition reduces health inequalities between high- and low-severity patients if patient composition effects, due to high-severity patients being more likely to exercise choice, are small.