Mercredi | 2020-10-22 12h00 en B103 Jedah OGWENO AbstractThis paper examines the impact of remittances on the tax effort of 91 developing countriesduring 2002-2017 using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). SFA makes a distinction betweenthe concepts of tax capacity (the optimum tax revenue a country can collect given its structuralfeatures) and tax effort (the ratio of […]
Mercredi | 2020-10-15 B103 – 12h00 Tobignaré YABRE Abstract :This paper proposes a critical survey on the role of budget institutions in promoting optimal fiscal policy based onspecific experiences of African countries. The paper shows that the observed path of fiscal policy in Africa departsfrom the normative prescription of the optimal fiscal policy theory but […]
Mercredi | 2020-09-24 B103 – 11h30 Askandarou Cheik DIALLO – Isabelle RABAUD – Luc JACOLIN Abstract : This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and private investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, using a sample of SSA 40 countries over 1980-2013. To disentangle short term from long-term dynamics, and take into account possible endogeneity […]
SIBI Mahi Georges « Dette publique et croissance économique : cas de la Côte d’Ivoire » (sous la direction de Patrick VILLIEU), soutenue le 23 octobre 2020Consultez la publicité de soutenance NAWAZ Kishwar » Three essays on natural resources, financial development and energy demand in Pakistan » (sous la direction de Amine LAHIANI) soutenue le 30 novembre 2020Consultez la […]
Mercredi | 2020-09-17 Salle des thèses – 12h00 Yannick LUCOTTE – Elham KAMAL – Vahid TAGHINEZHAD Abstract :This paper studies in two stages the effects of central bank credibility on exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) on 20 inflation targeting (IT) countries. In the first stage, using 60 months rolling window regression of inflation on nominal effective […]
Mardi | 2020-06-02 11H00 – Webinar Marcel-Cristian VOIA AbstractWe construct an unique microgeographic data to study the effects of Canadian bank branch network on consumer’ cash management. We create the average distance of consumer’s travelling to (affiliated) closest branch on the Forward Sortation Area (FSA) level, which avoids the attenutation bias and accounts for spatial […]
Mardi | 2020-05-20 11H00 – Webinar Daniela BALUTEL This paper estimates the effect of Bitcoin ownership on the level of consumer cash holdings, showing that adoption is indeed strongly correlated with cash holdings even after controlling for other relevant factors. We further model Bitcoin ownership itself to control for selection effects. Finally, we compute quantile […]
Mardi | 2020-03-10 Salle des thèses 16h-17h20 Kiril TOCHKOV China’s rapid growth has masked the fact that some of its regions have failed to catch up with the modernization and efficiency drive during the market transition. China’s Northeast was once the most prosperous part of the country and a model for socialist industrialization efforts. But […]
Mardi | 2020-03-05 Salle B.103 12h15 16h45 Alessio BONGIOVANNI We offer early evidence on the impact of negative interest rate policy (NIRP) on bank risk-taking. Our robust empirical evidence finds banks in NIRP-adopter countries reduce holdings of risky assets by around 10 percentage points compared to banks in non-adopter countries. This supports the “deleverage” hypothesis, […]
Mardi | 2020-03-03 Salle des thèses 16h-17h20 Graciela KUECHLE Entrepreneurs cope with uncertainty in different ways, from predictive approaches, based on the statistical assessment of contingencies, to non-predictive approaches based on judgment and oriented towards action. In this paper we develop a simple mathematical framework of the process by which entrepreneurs collect information about customers’ […]