Public economics and political economy

Insurance, long-term care, electoral systems, income taxation, unemployment, welfare...

The "Public economics  and political economy" group gathers researchers working in this field and more specifically on the following topics: taxation, social protection, health care, education, public goods, externalities, environmental policies, regulation, electoral competition, lobbying etc...

It represents an opportunity for researchers interested in this field to interact together and for younger scholars to get some feedback on their projects.

The main event of this group consists in a workshop taking place approximately every two weeks.

Watch an example of research led within the group below

List of members of the group

Angélique Acquatella

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor, TSE

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David Bardey

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor, Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

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Philippe Bontems

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, INRAe

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Marcel Boyer

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor Emeritus, Dpt Economics, CIRANO, Montréal

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Charles Brendon

TSE Associate Faculty

El-Erian Fellow in Macroeconomics, Faculty of Economics and Queens’ College, Cambridge

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Chiara Canta

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor in Economics, Toulouse Business School

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Georges Casamatta

TSE Associate Faculty

Senior researcher CNRS, LISA, University of Corsica

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Helmuth Cremer

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, TSE

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Catarina Goulão

TSE Research Faculty

Researcher in Economics (INRAE & TSE)

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Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, CNRS

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David Morales Ruiz

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Matteo Bobba

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Emmanuel Thibault

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, University of Perpignan

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List of WP, articles of the group

Determinants of ultra-processed food purchases: Evidence of between- and within-household variation in France

Céline Bonnet, and Catarina Goulão

Social Science and Medicine, vol. 403, n° 119425,
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Did the Cold War Produce Development Clusters in Africa

Paul Castañeda Dower, Gunes Gokmen, Michel Le Breton, and Shlomo Weber

Journal of Development Economics, vol. 182, n° 103776,
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Environmental Regulation, Market Power, and Socially Responsible Firms

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Estelle Malavolti

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1747, ,
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The design of insurance contracts for home versus nursing home long-term care

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Estelle Malavolti

International Journal of Health Economics and Management, vol. 26, n° 1,
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Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care

Chiara Canta, and Helmuth Cremer

Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 28, n° 4,
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Tax avoidance and commodity tax differentiation

Georges Casamatta, and Helmuth Cremer

Economics Letters, vol. 257, n° 112714,
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Compensation of CEOs – New Perspectives and New Metrics

Marcel Boyer, and Molivann Panot

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1692,
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Rethinking Inequality: Consumption versus Income and Wealth

Marcel Boyer, and Molivann Panot

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1691,
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Nonlinear reimbursement rules for preventive and curative medical care

Helmuth Cremer, and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

Journal of Health Economics, vol. 103, n° 103049,
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Workers’ Motivation and Quality of Services in Mission-Driven Sectors

Francesca Barigozzi, Chiara Canta, and Helmuth Cremer

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1655,
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Strategic vs. altruistic Corporate Social Responsibility

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Estelle Malavolti

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1639,
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Tax avoidance and commodity tax differentiation

Helmuth Cremer, and Georges Casamatta

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1636,
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List of Seminars of the group

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Tax Evasion, Exclusionary Practices, and Competition Policy

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

    Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 9 September 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Martin Besfamille (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile)

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Dying Better: Hospice Care and the End of Life

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 11 December 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Yunan Ji

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Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 5 December 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Felix Poege

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Arbitration and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from Insurer–Doctor Disputes.

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 21 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Benjamin Chartock

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Optimal Nonlinear Deployment Subsidies: Theory and Application to the German Solar Programme

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 7 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Stefan Pollinger

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Ideology in Government: Evidence from the Office of Indian Affairs and the Assimilation Era

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 24 October 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Eric Chyn

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The Social Multiplier of Pension Reform

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 17 October 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Arthur Seibold

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Doctor Decision Making and Patient Outcomes

  • Seminar

  • Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar

  • Date 15 May 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Janet Currie

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The Role of Top Managers in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 4 April 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Carol Propper

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Moral Hazard under Liquidity Constraints

  • Seminar

  • Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar

  • Date 3 April 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Keith Ericson

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Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital Mergers

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 28 March 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Zarek Brot-Goldberg

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Fundamentally Reforming the DI System: Evidence from Germany

  • Seminar

  • Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 21 March 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Nicolas Ziebarth (Mannheim University)

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Catarina Goulão

Group leader

Conferences and workshops

Past

13th Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economics and Delivery Services

  • Conference

  • Date From 16 to 17 April 2026

  • Place Auditorium Jean-Jacques Laffont and Auditorium A4

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Social Choice and Political Economy Conference in honor of Michel LE BRETON

  • Conference

  • Date From 27 to 28 June 2024

  • Place Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont

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12th biennial Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economics and Delivery Services

  • Conference

  • Date From 4 to 5 April 2024

  • Place Auditoriums 3 - 4

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