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At the interface between academic research and society, AMSE disseminates economic knowledge to non-academic audiences by:
- making the results of research accessible to everyone through its digital journal, Dialogues économiques, which publishes articles, videos and infographics,
- organizing outreach events (conferences, festivals, exhibitions),
- supporting researchers to contributing to the public debate (journalistic writing, press relations).

Dialogues économiques

Job creation and cash holdings in private firms: is there a link?

Contrary to popular belief, holding large amounts of cash does not encourage private companies to hire staff. In fact, the effect is quite the opposite. Economists Philippe Bacchetta, Kenza Benhima and Céline Poilly highlight the role of external ‘liquidity shocks’ to explain a surprising link between the two phenomena.

Reference: Bacchetta, P., Benhima, K., Poilly, C., 2014, "Corporate Cash and Employment". Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper N.14-01.

March 04th 2020

Dialogues économiques

The drive for expulsion gaining ground in the EU

In Europe, policies aimed at expelling irregular migrants and rejected asylum seekers are gaining momentum. For many years, Jean-Pierre Cassarino has collected more than 640 bilateral readmission agreements concluded by the EU Member States. He sheds light on an expanding expulsion system which is part and parcel of a broader international framework.

Reference: Cassarino, Jean Pierre, (2014), « A Reappraisal of the EU’s Expanding Readmission System », The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 49:4, 130-145

February 19th 2020

Dialogues économiques

The thin line between expulsion and voluntary return

The European Union has constructed a new language around the « voluntary return » of irregular migrants and this is making a complex situation more difficult to grasp. Jean-Pierre Cassarino, a political scientist, studies return migration and warns against the abusive use of « return » in the political debate.

Reference: Cassarino, Jean Pierre, (2014), « A Reappraisal of the EU’s Expanding Readmission System », The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 49:4, 130-145. Cassarino, Jean-Pierre, (2015),« Relire le lien entre migration de retour et

February 05th 2020

Dialogues économiques

Petty racism in private housing

The password is “white” in the competitive private rentals market. Finding a flat can be a real challenge for African immigrants. The economists Bruno Decreuse, Pierre Philippes Combes, Benoît Schmutz, and Alain Trannoy study the insidious racism of neighbouring tenants and landlords that lies at the root of current discriminations.

Reference: Combes, P-P. , Decreuse B. , Schmutz B. , Trannoy A. , 2018, "Neighbor discrimination theory and evidence from the French rental market," Journal of Urban Economics, 104(C), 104-123.

January 22nd 2020

Dialogues économiques

Ambivalent relationship between HIV and education

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest HIV rate in the world, but there is a lack of public healthcare systems and huge inequalities regarding healthcare. Besides direct impacts on health, the HIV epidemic has side effects on children’s education, affecting parental behaviour around the risk of getting ill, find the economists Renaud Bourlès, Bruno Ventelou, and Maame Esi Wood.

Reference: R. Bourlès, B. Ventelou & M. E. Woode (2017): Child Income, Appropriations as a Disease-Coping Mechanism: Consequences for the Health-Education Relationship, The Journal of Development Studies

January 06th 2020

Dialogues économiques

Globalization and colonization : a tale of size

There’s a message in people’s changes in height size. During the first globalization period, at the end of the 19th century, Filipinos lost up to 1.5 centimetres compared to their grandparents. This may be evidence of the degradation of living standards and nutrition. Economic growth does not pay off for everyone in the same way, as those who lived in colonized areas know.

Reference: Biological well-being in late nineteenth-century Philippines J.P. Bassino, M. Dovis, J. Komlos, Cliometrica, 2018

December 18th 2019

Dialogues économiques

The people of Mali get to grips with the problem of sanitation

Today, 2 billion people still lack basic sanitation access. Although that constitutes a health emergency, the proposed solutions are not always appropriate. Authors Alzua and Djebbari show that involving the community in a sanitation program in the Koulikouro region of Mali leads to shifts in collective practices as families build and start using latrines.

Reference: AJ Pickering, H Djebbari, C Lopez, M Coulibaly, ML Alzua, 2015, Effect of a community-led sanitation intervention on child diarrhoea and child growth in rural Mali: a cluster-randomised controlled trial, The Lancet Global Health.

December 04th 2019

Dialogues économiques

Might taxes impact innovations?

States seek inventors able to revolutionise our future, contributing to progress and new ideas. What fosters and encourages invention? A wide-ranging study presented by Stefanie Stantcheva shows that taxes in the U.S. have a great influence on innovation.

Reference: « Taxation et Innovation in the 20th Century », Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago), John Grigsby (Chicago), Tom Nicholas (Harvard Business School), Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard)

November 20th 2019

Dialogues économiques

Longevity, (in)equalities, progressivity: a fresh look at the U.S. tax system

Figures, percentages and graphics illustrate inequalities throughout the world. But from one place to another, inequalities depict very different situations. How can we study them? The economist Alan Auerbach, professor at the University of California, offers a new approach to the inequalities in developed countries by studying lifetime spending, after taxation and redistribution

Reference: U.S. Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity - An Intragenerational Accounting, by A.J. Auerbach L.J. Kotlikoff, D. Koehler, April 13, 2016, Revised June 5, 2019.

November 06th 2019

Dialogues économiques

Public Lecture by Joseph Stiglitz

Invited by AMSE, Joseph Stiglitz held a policy lecture in Marseille, on October 11th. Listen the lecture in full - only in French.

October 25th 2019