(Talks: 30mn + 15mn discussion)
2:30 pm : Sanjeev Goyal (Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge, Visiting Professor at University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas)
Competing chance
Supply,
servive and trading chains are a defining feature of the modern
economy. We develop a model of pricing in chains. Our analysis provides a
mapping of the network structure of chains to market power and helps us
understand pricing, profits and the patterns of trade.
3:15pm : Jihan Ghrairi (CRED, Université Paris 2 Panthéon Sorbonne) & Annick Vignes (ENPC & CAMS)
"Youth, how did you find your job?"
This
article aims to study youth employability. We focus on the way young
people found their job, analyzing the determinants of job access
channels. We use the youth sample of the French Labor Force Survey
("Enquête Emploi", INSEE): analyzing two samples, one before the crisis
(2007) and the second one during the crisis (2010), we find that the
successful ways of getting a job changed. We observe a reinforcement of
the social networks role: when young graduates often access to their
current jobs through direct applications and professional networks, less
qualified job seekers get their job thanks to their personal network.
Using a multinomial logit model and controlling for selection, we find
that when people get older, the effect of personal social networks
decrease when the effect of professional network gets reinforced. This
result goes a little bit further the ones of Granovetter or Van der Leij
and Goyal concerning the links between social networks and job market.
4:00 pm : Break
4:30 pm : Sandro Sapio (Professor of Economics, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope')
Do
collaborations enhance the high-quality output of scientific
institutions? Evidence from the Italian Research Assessment Exercise
In
this paper, we analyze the effects of research collaborations on the
scientific output of academic institutions, drawing on data from the
first official Italian research assessment exercise. We measure the
scientific performance of a research unit as the number of publications
that received an excellent grade in the evaluation process. Different
aspects of scientific collaboration are taken into account, such as the
degree of openness of a research team towards other institutions and/or
countries, the frequency of co-authorships, and the average size of
co-authoring teams. Using econometric models for count data, we find
that greater and more frequent knowledge exchange resulting from
collaboration with external or foreign colleagues increase researchers’
productivity.
5:15pm : End of the mini symposium
Program also posted on http://cams.ehess.fr/document.php?id=667