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AMSE research report 2014 aix-marseille school of economics AIX-MARSEILLE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 1 Coordination Raouf Boucekkine Conception-realization Laurent Boyer-Yves Doazan Photos © Grégoire Bernardi © aix-marseille school of economics - 2015 2 AIX-MARSEILLE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Summary 1 Foreword 4 2 The labex Aix-Marseille School of Economics: from 6 2011 to 2014 2.1- Scientifc achievement description 7 2.2- Labex impact on its ecosystem policy 16 3 AMSE Research Program 18 3.1- Honours and prizes 19 3.2- Scientific events 20 Globalization lectures Conferences and Wokshops AMSE Greqam seminar 30 Job market seminars 34 3.3- Mobility and visiting program 36 Co-autorship mobility Visitors 37 AMSE members’ long visits AMSE PhDs’ long visits 3.4- Junior progam 38 Postdoctoral fellows Predoctoral fellows 39 3.5- Publications 40 Articles in refereed journals Chapter books 46 Books 47 Working papers 48 4 People 62 4.1- Committees and staff 63 AMSE research council AMSE governance AMSE staff 64 4.2- Faculty 4.3- PhD students 65 72 AIX-MARSEILLE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 3 Foreword by Raouf Boucekkine, AMSE Scientific Director 4 AIX-MARSEILLE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Foreword This reports summarizes all the academic activities and achievements of the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) during the civil year 2014. This year is quite special as a mid-term report over the period 2011-2014 was to be handed out to the National Research Agency (ANR) in early 2015 to apply for the extension of the Labex AMSE until 2019. This extension has been indeed granted by the international jury appointed by the ANR in June 2015. The jury acknowledges that AMSE has been not only a positive shock in terms of productivity in economics research at Aix-Marseille but also in institutional and organizational terms. The mid-report prepared by Alain Trannoy, director of AMSE, for that purpose is incorporated into this 2014 edition of the AMSE activities report. Detailed enlightening statistical information on the AMSE experience during the period 2011-2014 is provided. One year more, AMSE events have worked smoothly: two AMSE globalization lectures have been organized, several AMSE workshops have taken place during the year, in particular two AMSE workshops in health and one AMSE workshop in growth and development. Collaborative events with the Banque de France were held along the same lines as the previous years. More large-scale conferences have been organized this year with respect to 2013: in addition to the now well-established LAGV conference, AMSE has organized the ASSET meetings (Association of Southern European Economic Theorists) 17 ans years after the last Marseille-based edition of this annual conference. A special AMSE lecture given by Jean-Charles Rochet has opened the conference. As to individual prizes and honors, two more AMSE members have been appointed as members of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) from October 2014, Sébastien Laurent as a junior member and Raouf Boucekkine as a senior member. Let’s finally welcome the new 2014 AMSE members. In particular, former CERGAM (management research center at Aix-Marseille) members Dominique Augey, Pierre Garello, Antoine Gentier, Elisabeth Krecke, Hervé Magnoloux, Jean-Yves Naudet, Gilles Stupfler and Bernard Py have joined GREQAM and AMSE in September 2014. Antonin Macé is the first hired in AMU on a tenure-track contract, he also joined AMSE at the same time as well as Patrick Sevestre. A last word as research director of AMSE: it has been a pleasure, an honor and a especially exciting task to participate so actively in the launching and the early management of this school. Of course, I sincerely thank the AMSE director for his full confidence and support during these 4 years in charge of the research program. With the extension of the Labex and the consolidation of the essential institutions and principles driving this Labex, I think it’s time to move to another stage of development with the hope to reach the cruising speed shortly. I am sure that our friend and colleague Yann Bramoullé, the new research director, is the right man in this new phase. Raouf Boucekkine AIX-MARSEILLE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 5 The labex Aix-Marseille School of Economics: from 2011 to 2014 by Alain Trannoy, AMSE Director 1- Scientific achievement description 2- Labex impact on its ecosystem policy 6 AIX-MARSEILLE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Scientific achievement description We first argue that the Labex AMSE was indeed a good tier, 1*+1+2 +3 +4 correspond to all ranked journals for the “shock” for the community of economists of Aix-Marseille CNRS. Obviously, no ranking is perfect and one can object and that they respond positively to this shock in terms against this ranking (and indeed, we add a few journals of productivity. More substantive arguments in terms of in economics which were forgotten by looking at the research highlights are then developed. REPEC ranking of journals; we give them a CNRS ranking by applying the rule that two journals which REPEC rank The Labex represents an economic and financial positive is similar should have the same CNRS ranking). By the shock that benefits all members of the scientific community way, we think that the trend is sufficiently strong to be valid who were included in the Labex community. We have whether another ranking were adopted. decided not to focus the financial support on the specific research agenda of the Labex for several reasons. 1- All members of the research centers GREQAM and DEFI Journals 2011 2012 2013 2014 were included in the project. 2-We can always expect 1* 0 1 1 2 spillovers effects from subsidizing research on a connected 1*+1 18 23 26 29 research area, even if it is not fully focused on the research 1*+1+2 54 63 57 66 program of the labex. 3-Before the Labex project, about 1*+1+2+3 80 92 93 94 50% of the scientific production could be considered as 1*+1+2+3+4 84 102 106 100 belonging to the 5 themes of the Labex research program Other fields 20 30 45 39 and much excellent research was and is actually done Total 104 132 151 139 outside the research program strictly. 4- Our primary goal is to build an excellent global research group in economics Table 1: Production of the Labex AMSE as Journal articles over in Aix-Marseille. A last reason is that we have adopted a the period 2011-2014.The category of the journals refers to the common signature for all researchers of the Labex and for CNRS ranking for 2014 for journals in economics. example, for members of GREQAM they should sign any publication as Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School Our assumption is that, since basically no influence of of Economics), CNRS and EHESS. It takes some time to the LABEX financing can be detected in 2011 because be adopted by all members, but since AMSE is known to publication in economics have been accepted at least be the name of the LABEX, it means that any paper that 6 months before, 2011 can be considered as our base- comes out from the AMSE community acknowledges the year. We do not have a counterfactual for what would PIA financing and then that this financing can have been have been the course of our flow of publications if the helpful at some stage. Labex AMSE were not accepted. Nevertheless, it is fair to say that the flow of our publications should more Because the LABEX AMSE adopts a broad-based and more be impacted by the “shock” which occurred perspective regarding financing scientific projects, one can in 2011. The trend of publications is increasing and we expect a global increase of scientific output both in terms are publishing in better journals. We did not experienced of quantity, quality and in the risks taken by the researchers publications in top five journals in economics for what of AMSE. And indeed, empirical evidence suggests that will become the AMSE community. 4 publications have there have been an increase in productivity of the global been obtained (2 in AER, 1 in Econometrica and 1 in production of the labs involved in the Labex AMSE. This QJE). Looking at the top-field journals, the trend is productivity gain can be both assessed in quantity and similar. Figure 1 below illustrates the trend by looking at qualitative terms with more interdisciplinary works. This the evolution of the rows of the table when we limit our last fact can be interpreted as riskier attitudes by AMSE attention to articles in economics journals. researchers allowed by the financial support of the Labex. We will document this progress of Labex Amse from the point of view of quantity, quality and diversity by looking at the list of publications and by summing up the almost 600 publications by the whole AMSE community by a table using the CNRS ranking of academic publications in economics for 2014. (see https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/spip. php?article551). The following table disaggregates the publication of articles using the ranking of the CNRS (1* corresponds to top five, 1*+1 corresponds to top five and top field, 1*+1+2 corresponds to the first tier of journals in terms of quality, 1*+1+2 +3 corresponds to first tier and second AIX-MARSEILLE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 7 Scientific achievement description Other fields 2011 2012 2013 2014 Health 11 13 18 13 Maths, Optmization, Complexity 4 10 12 10 Environnement 1 1 4 2 Philosophy-Law 3 2 2 6 Business 1 0 0 0 Econ Policy 0 4 9 8 Total 20 30 45 39 Table 2: AMSE published articles in other fields than economics.