Workshop on ‘Formal and Informal Institutions for Growth and Development’
Third edition of the CES inter-departments workshop "Formal and Informal Institutions for Growth and Development" will take place online on November 25-26, 2020
CES Research Days 2020
The CES direction is pleased to invite you to the CES Research Days which will take place on 19th and 20th November 2020.
Publication à la Une
Maurel Mathilde, Pernet Thomas, "New evidence on the soft budget constraint: Chinese environmental policy effectiveness in SOE-dominated cities", Public Choice (2020).
Chaire Blaise Pascal – Welcome to Professor Hervé Moulin
The CES is happy to welcome Professor Hervé MOULIN during the academic year 2020-2021, as laureate 2019 of the Chaires d’Excellence Blaise Pascal.
The CES becomes a research unit associated with the IRD
The Sorbonne Economics Centre (CES - UMR 8174) becomes an associated unit of the Societies and Globalization Department of the IRD.
On importance indices in multicriteria decision making
Abstract : We address the problem of how to define an importance index in multicriteria decision problems, when a numerical representation of preferences is given.
The gold digger and the machine
Abstract : This paper uses a quasi-natural experiment, the recent gold boom in Burkina Faso, to document the local impact of two alternative mining techniques: artisanal and industrial mining.
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