Public economics and political economy
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
Karine Van der Straeten
IAST/TSE Research Faculty
Senior Researcher CNRS & Managing Director, Jean-Jacques Laffont - TSE Foundation
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List of WP, articles of the group
Endogenous altruism and long term care policies in a Mirrleesian setting
Consumer Search, Steering and Choice Overload
The design of insurance contracts for home versus nursing home Long-Term Care
The Motherhood Wage and Income Traps
Shining with the stars: Competition, screening, and concern for coworkers’ quality
Welfare-improving tax evasion
Nonlinear reimbursement rules for preventive and curative medical care
Privately learning smooth distribution on the hypercube by projections
Life Expectancy, Income and Long-Term Care: The Preston Curve Reexamined
Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender when Hiring: a Field Experiment in Spain
Testing for fragility: a valuable public policy and an opportunity for postal operators
E-commerce and parcel delivery: environmental policy with greens consumers
List of Seminars of the group
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A Framework for Integrating Climate Goals into Trade Agreements
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Seminar
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 7 March 2025
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Farid Farrokhi
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Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Role of the American Medical Association
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Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar
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Date 5 December 2024
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Place Auditorium 5
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Speaker or organiser Marcella Alsan
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Is Health Insurance Progressive? The Distributional Incidence of Insurance Expansions
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 22 November 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Samantha Burn
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To be announced
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 15 November 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Grégory Ponthieres
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Using Diagnostic Contingent Incentive to Improve Malaria Treatment.
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Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar
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Date 14 November 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Paul Gertler
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Taxing Homeowners Who Won't Borrow
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 8 November 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Francis Wong
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Fair Pricing, Upstream Market Power, and Vertical Restraint
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 18 October 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Stephen F. Hamilton
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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry
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Industrial Organization seminar
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Date 14 October 2024
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Place Auitorium4
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Speaker or organiser Pierre Azoulay
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Regulating Spillovers in Teamwork
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Seminar
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 11 October 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Saltuk Ozerturk
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Putting the ‘Finance’ into ‘Public Finance’: A Theory of Capital Gains Taxation
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Seminar
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 27 September 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Florian Scheuer
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Why Has the Opioid Epidemic Gone on for So Long?
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Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar
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Date 19 September 2024
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser David Cutler
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Trade Barriers and Market Power: Evidence from Argentina's Discretionary Import Restrictions
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Seminar
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 3 May 2024
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Place Auditorium 5
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Speaker or organiser Augusto Ospital
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Catarina Goulão
Group leader
Conferences and workshops
Past
13th Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economics and Delivery Services
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Conference
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Date From 16 to 17 April 2026
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Place Auditorium Jean-Jacques Laffont and Auditorium A4
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Social Choice and Political Economy Conference in honor of Michel LE BRETON
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Conference
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Date From 27 to 28 June 2024
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Place Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
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12th biennial Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economics and Delivery Services
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Conference
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Date From 4 to 5 April 2024
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Place Auditorium Jean-Jacques Laffont and Auditorium A4
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