Public Outreach

In 2019, public health expenditure in the European Union amounted to 983 billion euros - 7% of GDP on average. According to a study conducted by researchers Yevgeniy Goryakin, Sophie Thiébaut, Sébastien Cortaredona, Aliénor Lerouge, Michele Cecchini, Andrea Feigl, and Bruno Ventelou, health spending will continue to increase steadily, reaching an estimated figure of between 1223 and 1278 billion euros by 2050.

Only in French | A team of researchers, including Gilbert Cette (AMSE/AMU/Banque de France), questions, the relevance of 3D printers as a means of production in times of pandemic

Only in French | Gilbert Cette (AMSE/AMU/Banque de France) was the guest on the Good Morning Business programme on BFM Business.

Only in French | How can social mobility be increased and gender inequality reduced? In an interview for "Pour l'Éco", Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa proposes a solution: improve teacher wages and giving more resources to secondary schools.

A study by Lucie Adélaïde (Santé publique France), Olivier Chanel (AMU/CNRS/AMSE), Mathilde Pascal (Santé publique France) published in the European Journal of Health Economics and Bulletin épidémiologique hebdomadaire assesses the economic impact associated with mortality, morbidity, and loss of well-being during heat waves in France

Dialogues économiques is taking its summer break and looks forward to seeing you on September 1st ! To keep you waiting until then, the online magazine offers you a selection of articles to (re)read...

Only in French | In an article published in "Le Monde", Nicolas Clootens (AMSE / Ecole Centrale de Marseille) and Dominique Henriet (AMSE / Ecole Centrale de Marseille) propose to allocate free CO2 emission permits to young people.

In May 2021, a French youtuber revealed on social networks that he had been approached by a communication agency to discredit the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Following his statement, other European influencers report receiving an identical proposal. The deal was that they would put forward a pre-written false argument in exchange for a fee. The aim? Likely to promote another vaccine over the German one. This attempt to cast doubt is reminiscent of how industrialists attempt to manipulate public opinion. Economists Yann Bramoullé and Caroline Orset modelled the cost of firms’ manipulation of scientific facts.

Only in French | Nicolas Jacquemet (Université Paris 1 / École d’économie de Paris), Stéphane Luchini (CNRS/AMSE) and Antoine Malézieux (Burgundy School of Business) explain, in an article accessible to all on the website "La vie des idées", how behavioural economics sheds more light on the determinants of tax evasion.

Only in english | In this eBook, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and World Bank bring together leading experts in international trade from academia and policy institutions to provide new analysis on the determinants of deep trade agreements. Freely available from 23 June 2021.