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Sales, Marine. "Frictions financières et marché du travail." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLN041/document.
Full textUnemployment rates in developed economies are now significantly different. Labor market institutions are also diverse and multifaceted. These institutions could be considered as allowing to increase or to reduce the levels of unemployment. However empirically, there is no direct and unambiguous link between unemployment rates and institutions in the labor market. By considering more precisely the way in which firms decide on their payroll, we realize that we omit, by making this simple correlation link, an essential variable that determines the hiring and firing behavior of firms, namely the funding variable. The external financing capacity of firms may determine the labor demand, conditional on the institutions in the labor market. Thus, the problem is not whether institutions in the labor market condition its relative performance but rather whether the couple of institutions in labor and credit markets determines this performance. A firm is certainly constrained by a greater or lesser flexibility in the labor market, but its computations are part of a broader perspective, which is whether or not it has access to the funding it needs. The importance of financial frictions in the credit market determines the level of the external financing constraint for firms. This could then have an impact on their hiring plans and job levels in economies depending on the prevailing labor market institutions. Financial frictions should therefore influence the main labor market macroeconomic variables, namely unemployment, wage level and the number of vacancies, conditional on existing labor market institutions
Lacaussade, Charles-Thierry. "Evaluation d'actifs financiers et frictions de marché." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UPSLD021.
Full textThis thesis aims to provide innovative theoretical and empirical methods for valuing securities to economics researchers, market makers, and participants, including brokers, dealers, asset managers, and regulators. We propose an extension of the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing (FTAP) tailored to markets with financial frictions. Hence, our asset pricing methodologies allow for more tractable bid and ask prices, as observed in the financial market. This thesis provides both theoretical models and an empirical application of the pricing rule with bid-ask spreads.In our first chapter, we introduce two straightforward closed-form pricing expressions for securities in two-date markets, encompassing a variety of frictions (transaction cost, taxes, commission fees). This result relies on a novel absence of arbitrage condition tailored to the market with frictions considering potential buy and sell strategies. Furthermore, these asset pricing models both rely on non-additive probability measures. The first is a Choquet pricing rule, for which we offer a particular case adapted for calibration, and the second is a Multiple Priors pricing rule.In the second chapter, as a step toward generalizing our asset pricing models, we provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for multi-period pricing rules characterized by bid-ask spreads. We extend the multi-period version of the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing by assuming the existence of market frictions. We show that it is possible to model a dynamic multi-period pricing problem with a one-stage pricing problem when the filtration is frictionless, which is equivalent to assuming the martingale property, which is equivalent to assuming price consistency.Finally, in the third chapter, we give the axiomatization of a particular class of Choquet pricing rule, namely Rank-Dependent pricing rules assuming the absence of arbitrage and put-call parity. Rank-dependent pricing rules have the appealing feature of being easily calibrated because the non-additive probability measure takes the form of a distorted objective probability. Therefore, we offer an empirical study of these Rank-Dependent pricing rules through a parametric calibration on market data to explore the impact of market frictions on prices. We also study the empirical validity of the put-call parity. Furthermore, we investigate the impact of time to expiration (time value) and moneyness (intrinsic value) on the shape of the distortion function. The resulting rank-dependent pricing rules always exhibit a greater accuracy than the benchmark (FTAP). Finally, we relate the market frictions to the market's risk aversion
Aboulkacem, El Mehdi. "Infrastructures de transport urbain et frictions du marché du travail." Thesis, Lille 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL12021/document.
Full textWe explore in this thesis some aspects of the role played by the urban transport infrastructures in reducing the labor market frictions caused by the spatial separation between the places of residence and the job opportunities locations. To do so, this thesis is written in three chapters.In the first, we build a series of spatial matching functions linking jobless workers to vacant positions. These functions depend on the transport infrastructures parameters and are not conditional on the structure of the city in which the matching process occurs. In the second chapter we present an innovative public policy evaluation instrument used for measuring the impact of the Paris region transport infrastructures performances on the local unemployment rates and for predicting the impact of the Grand Paris Express on these rates. This instrument can be used in other contexts and for other regions. Last but not least, the third chapter analyses the determinants of the home-workplace distance of two-worker households' workers living in Paris region. The objective is to provide some clues to understand the transportation demand generated by the constant growth of the part of this kind of households and to anticipate it while designing the future planning policies
Oh, Samil. "Trois essais sur les frictions du marché du travail, le commerce international et l'incertitude." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CERG0972/document.
Full textThe labor market is a central institution in any modern economy. At the same time, the labor market is characterized by pervasive regulation. Across nations, the labor market is subject to minimum wages, hiring and firing restrictions, compulsory collective bargaining, etc. A recent and growing literature investigates the consequences of such heterogeneity in labor market institutions, studying how labor market rigidities affect the causes and consequences of policy changes. Thus far, however, few works have addressed the implications of labor market rigidities for trade-induced labor dynamics focusing on the informal sector, or the second moment shocks in an open economy setting. Important questions remain open for researchers and policymakers. The purpose of this thesis is to address these questions, studying the role of labor market frictions and its interaction with international trade and uncertainty.The first chapter investigates the impact of uncertainty shocks in a small open economy with search and matching frictions and firm entry. We first develop our empirical analysis in the context of the Korean economy, as all dimensions of the model are relevant in this country. An increase in uncertainty lowers output, consumption, investment and job finding rate, while raising unemployment and job separations. We also supplement the existing empirical evidence by looking at firm dynamics, real exchange rate and current account behavior. In our theoretical framework, we illustrate new transmissions mechanism that are ignored in the literature. Economic mechanisms go beyond the simple addition of each feature. Search frictions, firm entry and the open economy dimension actually strongly interact to amplify the effects of uncertainty shocks and make the model consistent with the empirical evidence.The second chapter studies how tax reforms help ensure a fair globalization. In this paper we develop a two-area model: a developed and an emerging country. The two areas differ according to the size of the informal sector, which is characterized by a more flexible labor market and lower productivity. Our analysis suggests that trade liberalization boosts economic activity and employment in both the formal and informal sector. However, this employment expansion is biased toward the informal sector, which is not subject to labor regulation and hence more flexible. Hence, trade liberalization leads to lower employment quality, as informal workers are not covered by the labor legislation, social security and receive lower paid. A budget-neutral tax reform switching the tax burden from payroll taxes paid by firms operating in the formal sector to a consumption tax may represent a strategy to support the formal sector. However, formalization comes at the cost of widening income inequality between formal and informal workers.The third chapter assesses the importance of labor market institutions in the transmission of uncertainty shocks to labor markets. Using country-specific VARs across OECD countries, I find that there is substantial cross-country heterogeneity in the responses of unemployment rates to uncertainty shocks. I also provide evidence that this heterogeneity can be attributed to differential employment protection legislation (EPL). Low EPL countries suffer more severe rises in unemployment compared to high EPL countries following uncertainty shocks. Stricter EPL mutes the reaction of unemployment, making it more costly to lay workers off. Moreover, the second moment shock reinforces this mechanism through the real options channel. Under irreversibility and uncertainty, firing costs come with a bigger cost. On the other hand, the role of other labor market characteristics is ambiguous
Bocognano, Laurène. "Cultural transmission, education and employment with labor market frictions." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020AIXM0128.
Full textThis dissertation assesses the combined effects of cultural values and labor market frictions on individuals' educational investments and unemployment behaviors. The first chapter proposes an explanation to social reproduction. I use an overlapping generations model where parents transmit values more or less favorable to employment and the child chooses education and looks for a job. Transmission occurs through imperfect information about their offspring's scholastic ability. In privileged families, parents do not doubt about their offspring's success on the labor market, and transmit a strong pro-employment value. I find that this mechanism increases social immobility.The second chapter assesses how to compute optimal UI in a case where endogenous preferences are represented by an optimal choice of self-esteem at work which can either be complementary or substitutable to work income. While neglecting the state-specific and endogenous nature of self-esteem weights, a sufficient statistics approach may wrongly call for UI expansions. The third chapter analyzes the relationship between inherited work ethic and the decision to take up benefits in case of unemployment with a search model where parents transmit self-esteem at work to their offspring. An increase in non employment income or a decrease of the claiming cost increase the probability of taking benefits up in the case of unemployment, while a decrease in the searching cost decreases the unemployment rate and the take-up rates. This last result comes from an increase of employment self-esteem when the unemployment risk is lower, which itself leads to an increase in unemployment stigma
Guigue, Etienne. "Market Power and Frictions in Supply Chains." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Institut polytechnique de Paris, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023IPPAG009.
Full textThis dissertation aims to better understand the role of market power and competition frictions between suppliers and buyers in intertwined global and national supply chains. This research leverages empirical and theoretical tools applied to the French dairy industry and French manufacturing importers.Chapter 1 suggests a new methodology to separately estimate firm buyer and seller power, which is important for policy-making but challenging, and apply it to French dairy processors. These firms exert buyer power when purchasing raw milk, and seller power when marketing dairy products. The analysis is based on plant-level data on dairy firms, with observations on prices and quantities of raw-milk input by origin and output by product from 2003 to 2018. Total margins are estimated relying on a production function approach. The existence of a commodity, (i) substitutable as an input or as an output, and (ii) exchanged on global markets where firms are price-takers, then allows separately estimating firm-origin markdowns and firm-product markups. The methodology can also be useful in other contexts, with more limited data. Markdown estimates imply that dairy firms on average purchase raw milk at a price 16% below its marginal contribution to their profits, while markup estimates indicate that firms sell dairy products at a price exceeding their marginal costs by 41%. This chapter also analyzes how exogenous farmer and processor cost shocks pass through the supply chain. Processors partially absorb such shocks by adjusting markups and markdowns, thus smoothing variations in farmer revenues. It further implies that 65% of subsidies are currently diverted from farmers due to processor buyer power.Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of production quotas and their progressive removal in the French milk market, showing that production quotas generated two types of distortions. First, by mechanically fixing production shares across French départements at their pre-quota (1984) level, quotas stopped a natural spatial concentration for about 25 years, a process that restarted right after the start of the progressive quota removal in 2008. Second, the design of the quota system spurred the growth of small farms while constraining the expansion possibilities of larger farms. This redistributive scheme thus successfully refrained inequalities among farms growing until then, yet at the cost of distorting the competition-led cream-skimming of farms. Results finally show how the catching-up process in farm selection following the quota removal intervened more or less early across départements, depending on the stringency implied by quota constraints at the local level. These observations are rationalized with a simple model of perfect competition between heterogeneous farms.Chapter 3 quantifies buyer power in input trade and evaluates its aggregate effects. The developed empirical strategy for estimating importer buyer power from standard trade and production data does not rely on assumptions about other input markets. The results show that French manufacturing firms exert an average markdown of 1.49 on imported inputs and of 1.59 on domestically purchased inputs, revealing their significant buyer power in both markets. The welfare implications are then explored using an equilibrium model
Rastouil, Jeremy. "Three essays on labor market frictions under firm entry and financial business cycles." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0228.
Full textDuring the Great Recession, the interactions between housing, labor and entry highlight the existence of narrow propagation channels between these markets. The aim of this thesis is to shed a light on labor market interactions with firm entry and financial business cycles, by building on the recent theoretical and empirical of DSGE models. In the first chapter, we have found evidence of the key role of the net entry as an amplifying mechanism for employment dynamics. Introducing search and matching frictions, we have studied from a new perspective the cyclicality of the mark-up compared to previous researches that use Walrasian labor market. We found a less countercyclical markup due to the acyclical aspect of the marginal cost in the DMP framework and a reduced role according to firm's entry in the cyclicality of the markup. In the second chapter, we have linked the borrowing capacity of households to their employment situation on the labor market. With this new microfoundation of the collateral constraint, new matches on the labor market translate into more mortgages, while separation induces an exclusion from financial markets for jobseekers. As a result, the LTV becomes endogenous by responding procyclically to employment fluctuations. We have shown that this device is empirically relevant and solves the anomalies of the standard collateral constraint. In the last chapter, we extend the analysis developed in the previous one by integrating collateral constrained firms in order to have a more complete financial business cycle. The first result is that an entrepreneur collateral constraint integrating capital, real commercial estate and wage bill in advance is empirically relevant compared to the collateral literature associated to the labor market which does not consider these three assets. The second finding is the role of the housing price and credit squeezes in the rise of the unemployment rate during the Great Recession. The last two chapters have important implications for economic policy. A structural deregulation reform in the labor market induces a significant rise in the debt level for households and housing price, combined with a substantial rise of firm debt. Our approach allows us to reveal that a macroprudential policy aiming to tighten the LTV ratio for household borrowers has positive effects in the long run for output and employment, while tightening LTV ratios for entrepreneurs leads to the opposite effect
Pappadà, Francesco. "Effets au niveau agrégé de l'hétérogénéité des firmes et des frictions sur le marché du crédit." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010020.
Full textGuglielminetti, Elisa. "Empirical and theoretical implications of frictional labor markets." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015IEPP0034.
Full textIn this thesis I take the search and matching framework as the starting point of my analysis to investigate several aspects of the labor market. In Chapter 1, I explore the consequences of uncertainty on the macroeconomy . The empirical analysis shows that uncertainty has a detrimental effect on the aggregate economy and that job creation is an important channel of transmission. The empirical findings are then rationalized through a DSGE model incorporating the DMP setup and featuring stochastic volatility. In Chapter 2, I study the time-varying characteristics of job creation in the US. The econometric setup is a Time-Varying Parameter SVAR (TVP-SVAR) with stochastic volatility. The identification strategy is based on a DSGE model with a frictional labor marketIn Chapter 3, I extend the standard framework to take into account the spatial dimension of job search. Austrian data show the existence of a trade- off between wage and commute time. They also uncover complex patterns in the dynamics of exits from unemployment. Cox-regressions further show that the level of unemployment benefits has a strong discouraging effect on job search. In Chapter 4, I use a random search model to study the sorting of new hires into open-ended and fixed-term contracts. The co-existence of these two types of contracts is explained by match heterogeneity. The match productivity is interpreted as the fit of worker's skills to task requirements. This hypothesis is supported by matched employer-employee data from a large Italian region
Cerdan, Ophelie. "La nature des investissements en capital humain et le design des institutions du marché du travail." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX24020.
Full textEducation is an investment that has its return on the labor market. However, frictions at work in this market affect both the level and the nature of educational investments. At the same time, the skills gained during schooling time determine the design of labor market institutions.This thesis is made of three chapters examining, each of them examines a particular issue.The first one presents a mismatch model on labor market where the efficiency of the assignment mechanism is endogenous: it depends on educational efforts (which reduce the mismatch) and on technological investments (which increases it). We examine the impact of uncertainty regarding the future work associate, of the worker's heterogeneity toward scholastic ability, and of risk aversion.In the second one we build a two-sector matching model with generalists and specialists, in which the proportion of specialists is endogenous. The nature of human capital determines the number of job queues in which worker can candidates as well as its rank in each of them. Self-selection in education type leads to three main externalities: specialists enhance job creation in each sector; generalists improve the efficiency of the matching technology, but nevertheless exacerbate firm's coordination problems. We calibrate the model on aggregate data for 20 OECD countries. Self-selection is always inefficient: taxing vocational education, to reduce the proportion of specialists down the efficient level, could reduce unemployment rates by more than one point of percentage.The third one studies the unemployment insurance scheme in a context where workers have different kind of human capital. We show that, depending on the scenario chosen for the management of the insurance fund, the proportion of individuals with specific human capital can lead either to a decrease or to an increase of the replacement rate of the optimal unemployment benefit
Chahad, Mohammed. "Crises, frictions financières et modélisation macroéconomique." Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100188/document.
Full textUntil recently, most macroeconomic models have ignored the interaction between financial and real sectors, postulating the neutrality of the former. However, the last financial crisis, also known as subprime crisis, rejected this assumption. In this thesis we propose three essays where we try to shed light on the role of the financial and more particularly the banking sector during the last crisis.The first essay provides a formal assessment of the exceptional nature of the crisis by challenging the usual ‘normality’ assumption of the innovations. Our results refute the ‘normality’ assumption for the crisis, but also and more importantly, they put forward possible biases from using this assumption in macroeconometric models.The exceptional features of the crisis can also be seen in the use of unconventional monetary policy. The second chapter of the thesis shows how higher volatility in the interbank market impedes the standard monetary policy effects. However, a central bank with a more balanced monetary policy, reacting both to inflation pressures and to GDP variations, would be in a better situation to dampen the effects of interbank volatility shocks on the economic cycle.The last chapter deals with the impact on the real sector of the new Basel III regulatory requirements. The fulfillment of the new capital ratio has no positive spill-over effects on the Liquidity Coverage Ratio which magnifies the output discrepancy between SMEs and corporate firms. This, in turn, generates a greater recessionary impact on the overall economy. A more progressive implementation of the new regulation combined with perfect expectations should however decrease such adverse effects
Morteza, Pouraghdam Meradj. "Three essays on the role of frictions in the economy." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016IEPP0007/document.
Full textIn this thesis I have investigated three aspects of market frictions. Chapter 1 is about financial frictions, i.e. frictional forces prevailing in the financial lending markets and how monitoring and legal fines imposed on banks affect financial fragility. Chapter 2 explores the frictional labor market, i.e. frictional forces that prevent the smooth matching process between employees and employers in labor markets. In this chapter I investigate the sources of fluctuations in labor market volatility. Chapter 3 investigates the asymmetrical information in lending markets and how bankruptcy law could potentially affect this asymmetrical information between a borrower and its lenders. In Chapter 1, I have investigated the implications of legal fines and partial monitoring in a macro-finance model. This primary motivation of this work was the unprecedented level of fines banks faced in recent years. The research in this field is very sparse and this work is one of the few to fill in the void. I have tried investigating the implications of fines and partial monitoring in static and dynamic frameworks. There is partial monitoring in the sense that dubious behavior of intermediaries is not always observed with certainty. Moreover intermediaries can pay some litigation fees to mitigate the punishment for their conduct should they get caught. Several insights can be drawn from introducing such concepts in static and dynamic frameworks. Partial monitoring and legal fines make the incentive constraint of intermediaries more relaxed, in the sense that bankers are required to pledge less collateral to raise fund. This decrease in the asset pledgeability pushes the corporate spread down. In a dynamic set-up due to changes in asset qualities caused by such possibilities, recovery in output and credit become sluggish in response to an adverse financial shock. The dynamic implications of the model for the post-crisis period are investigated. This paper calls for further research to broaden our understandings in how legal settlements interact with banks' behaviors. In Chapter 2 (joint with Elisa Guglielminetti) I have investigated the time-varying property of job creation in the United States. Despite extensive documentation of the US labor market dynamics, evidence on its time-varying volatility is very hard to find. In this work I contribute to the literature by structurally investigating the time-varying volatility of the U.S. labor market. I address this issue through a time-varying parameter VAR (TVP-VAR) with stochastic volatility by identifying four structural shocks through imposing robust restrictions based on a New Keynesian DSGE model with frictional labor markets and a large set of shocks. The main findings are as follows. First, at business cycle frequencies, the lion share of the variance of job creation is explained by cost-push and demand shocks, thus challenging the conventional practice of addressing the labor market volatility puzzle à la Shimer under the assumption that technology shocks are the main driver of fluctuations in hiring. Second, technology shocks had a negative impact on job creation until the beginning of the '90s. This result is reminiscent of the “hours puzzle” à la Gali. In Chapter 3 (joint with Garence Staraci) I provide an additional rationale why creditors include covenants in their contracts. The central claim is that covenants are not only included as a means of shifting the governance from debtors to creditors, but also to potentially address the concerns creditors might have about how the bankruptcy law is practiced. To investigate this claim, I take advantage of the fact that covenants are nullified inside bankruptcy. This fact permits us to show that any change to the bankruptcy law affects the spread through changes that it brings to the contractual structure
Mrowiec, Filip. "Barriers to liquidity in market-based intermediation." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022TOU10009.
Full textThe overarching goal of my thesis is to understand barriers to liqudity in market-based finance. Understanding this new financial system paradigm is important because it performs an increasing share of the maturity transformation. While regulators of traditional banks can rely on an extensive body of scientific studies, our understanding of shadow banks and other financial institutions lacks such a complete academic underpinning. My thesis collects insights on collateralized lending, repo markets and liqudity in corporate bond markets.In the first chapter, I study how and when transparency can be disadvantageous given multiple (symmetric) counterparties. Many secured lending markets are opaque, allowing borrowers potentially to conceal multiple borrowing relationships. The policy debate has proposed transparency to curtail hidden risk. In this paper, I show that transparency may backfire due to increased credit rationing under multiple borrowing. In a transparent market, an opportunistic lender can easily coordinate with the borrower at the expense of a pre-existing lender. This becomes more difficult in an opaque market, as an opportunistic lender may more easily find himself at the receiving end of a different opportunistic move by the borrower. Lenders are therefore more cautious in an opaque market. This can restore the second-best allocation. I show that over-collateralization plays a key role in this mechanism as it constrains the borrower's ability to increase leverage opportunistically. Finally, I provide a clear characterization of when opacity achieves allocations that dominate those that can be achieved under market transparency in terms of welfare. In my second chapter, I study how some lenders protect against a winner's curse in the repo market. Market-makers finance their inventories through repurchase agreements, using inventory securities as collateral. They face a variety of counterparties of varying degrees of sophistication regarding their ability to value the securities. Theoretically, less sophisticated counterparties should fear the winner's curse of receiving worse collateral. In my model, a market-maker seeks a more sophisticated lender to finance better collateral at lower rates. The less sophisticated lender cannot observe the market-maker's behaviour and charges higher interest rates to compensate. I test my model prediction and find support for a compensation that is higher for market-makers with a higher number of sophisticated lender contacts. The increase in uncertainty during the Covid-19 pandemic serves as an exogenous variation in the informational advantage of more sophisticated lenders.My work suggests that opacity exacerbates fragility for well-connected borrowers, as less sophisticated lenders charge higher rates to compensate for the possibility of hidden cherry-picking.In my third chapter, titled "Dynamic Liquidity Provision for Corporate Bonds under Capital Constraints", I study how capital constraints can delay bilateral trades. After the financial crisis, many corporate bond practitioners lamented the poor state of market liquidity for large corporate bond trades, while academic research painted an inconclusive picture of liquidity conditions. Motivated by this tension, I find theoretically that scarce capital and restrictions to only bargain on spot trades can delay trades. The spot trade restriction implies a market incompleteness under which agents must trade bundles of claims. Under scarcity, the buyer frets over capital wasted on claims without gains from trade. Waiting can unbundle claims. Therefore, I argue that scarce capital after the financial crisis can explain smaller trades and trade delays. The deterioration in the time dimension of liquidity explains the practitioners' claims of deteriorated liquidity conditions. My model relates trade timing to the scarcity of capital, bargaining power distribution and dynamics of gains from trade
Devulder, Antoine. "Involuntary unemployment and financial frictions in estimated DSGE models." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01E016/document.
Full textThanks to their internal consistency. DSGE models, built on microecoc behavor, have become prevalenl for business cycle and policy analysis in institutions. The recent crisis and governments' concern about persistent unemployment advocate for mechanism, capturing imperfect adjustments in credit and labor markets. However, popular models such as the one of Smets and Wouters (2003-2007), although unsophisticated in their representation of these markets, are able to replicate the data as well as usual econometric tools. It is thus necessary to question the benefits of including these frictions in theoretical models for operational use.ln this thesis, I address this issue and show that microfounded mechanisms specifiç to labor and credit markets can significantly alter the conclusions based on the use of an estimated DSGE model, fom both a positive and a normative perspective.For this purpose, I build a two-country model of France and the rest of the euro area with exogenous rest of the world variables, and estimate it with and without these two frictions using Bayesian techniques. By contrast with existing models, I propose two improvements of the representation of labor markets. First, following Pissarides (2009), only wages in new jobs are negotiated by firms and workers, engendering stickiness in the average real wage. Second, I develop a set of assumptions to make labor market participation endogenous and unemployment involuntary in the sense that the unemployed workers are worse-off that the employed ones. Yet, including this setup in the estimated model is left for future research.Using the four estimated versions of the model, I undertake a number of analyses to highlight the role of financial and labor market frictions : an historical shock decomposition of fluctuations during the crisis, the evaluation of several monetary policy rules, a counterfactual simulation of the crisis under the assumption of a flexible exchange rate regime between France and the rest of the euro area and, lastly, the simulation of social VAT scenarios
Yassin, Shaimaa. "Labor market search frictions in developing countries : evidence from the MENA region : Egypt and Jordan." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010004/document.
Full textPolicy prescriptions for poor developing countries struggle to expand employment opportunities toraise their income levels. Among these are the MENA Arab countries that have recently experiencedan unprecedented tide of popular uprisings following the rising poverty, inequality and exclusion, muchof which is related to the labor market. Since the flow approach to labor markets has become the basic toolbox to modern labor economics, this thesis has at its central insight explaining the functioning ofthose specific labor markets, particularly the Egyptian and Jordanian, using the search equilibrium theory. It looks at analyzing job accession, separations and mobility trends. Overall, evidence of highlevels of rigidity is revealed. The impact of introducing flexible employment protection regulations in these rigid markets is then discussed both empirically and theoretically. Findings show that lowering firing costs in Egypt increased significantly the job separations, but had no impact on job creations.This partial failure of the liberalization reform is interpreted theoretically by a crowding out effect due to increased corruption set up costs or increased public sector wages. A novel theoretical matching model a la Mortensen Pissarides is developped allowing for the existence of public, formal private and informal private sectors, reflecting the particular nature of developing countries. Workers’ movements up the job ladder is then explored through a structural estimation of the frictional parameters in a job search model a la Burdett Mortensen. These markets are found to have very high levels of search frictions especially among the young workers. Given the non-availability of panel data to study labor market flows, longitudinal retrospective panel datasets are extracted from the Egypt and Jordan Labor Market Panel Surveys. These panels are then compared to available contemporaneous crosssectional information, showing that they suffer from recall and design measurement erros. An original methodology is therefore proposed and developped to correct the biased labor market transitionsboth on the aggregate macro-level, using a Simulated Method of Moments (SMM), as well as on themicro-individual transaction level, using constructed micro-data weights
Zhutova, Anastasia. "Essays in quantitative macroeconomics : assessment of structural models with financial and labor market frictions and policy implications." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01E044.
Full textIn this thesis I provide an empirical assessment of the relations between the main macroeconomic variables that drive the Business Cycle. We treat the empirical question that arises in each chapter using Bayesian estimation. In the first chapter we investigate conditional contribution of the labor market transition rates (the job finding rate and the separation rate) to unemployment. The literature did not have a consensus on which rate dominates in explaining the labor market dynamics. While Blanchard and Diamond (1990) concluded that the fall in employment during slumps resulted from a higher separation rate, Shimer (2012), as well as Hall (2005), explain unemployment variations by mainly the job finding rate. Our result, obtained through an estimation of a structural VAR model, shows that the importance of the transition rated depends on the shocks that hit an economy and hence the importance of the labor market institutions. In the second chapter, we assess the impact of the labor market reform of the US president H. Hoover implemented at the beginning of the Great Depression. We show that these policies prevented the US economy to enter a big deflationary spiral. Estimating a medium scale DSGE model, we also compare two opposite effects these policies lead to: negative effect through a fall in employment and positive effect though inflationary expectations which are expansionary when monetary policy is irresponsive to the rise in prices. The results depend on the monetary policy rule we assume: The Taylor principle or price level targeting. The third chapter is devoted to the relation between the real interest rate and the economic activity which depends on the number of asset market participants. Using a DSGE model and allowing to the proportion of these agents to be stochastic and to follow a Markov chain, we identify the historical sub-periods where this proportion was low enough to reverse the IS curve. For the US case, we report the studied relation to be positive during the Great Inflation period and for a short period at the edge of the Great Recession. In the EA, the proportion of non-participants has been increased during 2009-2015, but only to amplify the negative correlation between the real interest rate and output growth
Ray, Simon. "The real-estate component in the production process of non-financial firms : investment, employment and mobility." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM2018.
Full textThis thesis studies channels through which corporate real-estate affects investment, employment and mobility of Non-Financial Corporations (NFCs). Real-estate assets account for a sizable share of firms' asset value and premises are often one of the main expenditure items of NFCs. Real-estate prices hence have a bearing on the value of firms' pledgeable assets and on the cost of inputs. In a frictional credit market, the firms' borrowing capacity can be enhanced by an increase in asset's value. The first two chapters of this thesis study this collateral channel and its effects on investment and employment. The first chapter proposes a dynamic setting with a focus on labor market variables whereas the second explores heterogeneous effects across firms, based on micro-data. The last chapter examines the consequences of the peculiarities of real-estate adjustment costs. Studying the relocation behaviour of firms facing varying moving costs, we document important effects of the costs associated with a change in the size of the premises on the employment dynamics
Bonleu, Antoine. "Housing market regulation and labor market regulation." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM2009/document.
Full textThe first contribution studies the complementarities between the strength of social networks and the stringency of procedural formalism. While procedural formalism increases the cost of legal dispute resolution between landlords and tenants, social networks allow conflicts to be solved without recourse to justice. Procedural formalism is thus a way to provide a market advantage to local individuals embedded in dense local social networks at the expense of nonlocal agents without access to such networks.The second contribution deals with the importance of the sun on the demand for regulation in the rental market. Southern European countries with good climate amenities are attractive by their mildness of life. This potential immigration increases the pressure on the rental market. To reduce it, individuals in Southern Europe develop complementarities between social capital and local regulations. This strategy explains a Mediterranean equilibrium characterized by high levels of local social capital and procedural formalism. Conversely, the lack of attractiveness of countries with low climate amenities leads to an Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian equilibrium with opposite features.The third contribution explains the support for labor market regulation by the presence of regulations on the rental market. When the rental market is very regulated, landlords screen applicants with regard to their ability to pay the rent. Protecting regular jobs offers a second-best technology to sort workers, thereby increasing the rental market size. We provide a model where non-employed workers demand protected jobs despite unemployment and the share of short-term jobs increase
Pizzo, Alessandra. "Frictional labor markets and policy interventions : dynamics and welfare implications." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01E014/document.
Full textThe objective underlying the three chapters of this thesis is the understanding of the functioning of the labor market to make a diagnosis about the potential regulatory role of a public authority in this market. ln the first chapter, I analyze, from a purely "positive" point of view, the ability of the model with search and matching frictions to reproduce short-term fluctuations of labor market variables in the United States. I propose a new calibration strategy, within a general equilibrium framework with sticky prices. In the second chapter (co-written with F. Langot), we study the determinants of changes in the labor supply over the last fifty years. Changes in the tax wedge, and two variables reflecting the institutional framework (the generosity of income in case of "non-employment" and workers' bargaining power), can explain the different trajectories of the rate employment and hours worked observed in the United States and three European economies (France, Germany and the United Kingdom). ln the third chapter, I analyze the performance of two alternative systems of social security, within the framework of a model with heterogeneous agents in terms of wealth. The agents are subject to a risk of unemployment, and the planner can provide insurance through a redistibutive tax system, based on a progressive tax and / or unemployment insurance. The progressive tax system is superior in terms of aggregate welfare to the insurance provided through unemployment benefits, through its effect on the functioning of the labor market
Kleiner, Ana Francisca Rozin 1982. "The required coefficient of friction in normal and pathological gait : friction and gait = Coeficiente de atrito requerido na marcha normal e patológica: atrito e marcha." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/274676.
Full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física
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Resumo: O objetivo principal desta tese foi analisar o coeficiente de atrito requerido (RCOF) na marcha de idosos, pacientes com acidente vascular cerebral (AVC) e com doença de Parkinson (DP). Esta tese contém seis capítulos. No Primeiro Capítulo a revisão de literatura sobre Tribologia (o estudo do atrito) e RCOF na marcha é apresentada. Atrito é a resistência ao movimento durante o deslizar ou girar que acontece quando um corpo sólido se move tangencialmente sobre outro corpo com o qual esta em contato. Na marcha, o RCOF é o atrito requerido entre o sapato e o chão para realizar vários tipos de atividades. O Segundo Capítulo discute a metodologia para calcular o RCOF baseada nas forças de reação do solo (FRS). Para calcular o RCOF os dados de FRS durante a marcha são adquiridos. Para isso, o participante é instruído a andar descalço em sua velocidade preferida ao longo de uma passarela, sob a qual duas plataformas de força estão embutidas no chão da sala de coleta de dados. Após coletados, os dados de GRF são normalizados pelo peso corporal do sujeito e em função da percentagem da fase de suporte. Em seguida, o RCOF é calculado como a razão entre as componentes horizontais de FRS (resultante das FRS lateral e antero-posterior) e a FRS vertical. Com esta metodologia foram realizados os estudos apresentados nos Terceito, Quarto, Quinto e Sexto Capítulos desta tese. No Terceiro e no Quarto Capítulos são apresentadas investigações os efeitos de diferentes superfícies no RCOF durante a marcha normal e patológica. Para isso, o participante foi orientado a caminhar sobre as seguintes superfícies: 1) piso vinílico (HOV); 2) carpete; 3) revestimento vinílico (HTV); 4) mista (a primeira parte da passarela foi coberta por HOV e a segunda por HTV). Todas as quatro superfícies apresentavam coeficiente de atrito estático seguro (que varia 0,44-0,55) e são amplamente utilizadas em residências e instalações públicas. Os principais resultados destes estudos foram: na marcha descalça indivíduos saudáveis apresentaram diferenças no RCOF entre os tipos de superfície nas fases de contato inicial e apoio terminal. Além disso, o RCOF na marcha dos pacientes com AVC foi alterada na fase apoio terminal devido as quatro superfícies testadas. No Quinto e no Sexto Capítulos, a análise da curva do RCOF em pacientes com AVC e DP foi apresentada, respectivamente. O RCOF dos pacientes com AVC e DP apresentaram padrões diferentes aos do grupo controle. Em pacientes com AVC o contato inicial, a fase de rolamento e o apoio terminal são as fases mais críticas para a incidência de quedas. Os pacientes com DP apresentaram valores RCOF mais baixos durante o contato inicial e a fase de apoio terminal em comparação com o grupo controle. Estas análises representam a primeira tentativa de explorar as características da curva RCOF durante a análise da marcha; além disso, esta variável também pode ser utilizada na predição da queda dos pacientes com AVC e DP
Abstract: The main goal of this thesis was to analyze the required coefficient of friction (RCOF) on elderly, stroke and parkinsonian gait. This thesis is presented in six chapters. In the First Chapter the literature review of Tribology (the study of friction) and the RCOF during the gait are presented. Friction is the resistance to motion during sliding or rolling that is experienced when a solid body moves tangentially over another with which it is in contact. During the gait, the RCOF is the friction required at the shoe and floor interface to support different types of human activities. The Second Chapter discusses the methodology to calculate the RCOF based on the ground reaction forces (GRF). To calculate the RCOF the GRF data during the participant¿s gait analysis is acquired. For this the participant is ask to walk barefoot, at his or her selected speed, along a pathway, beneath which two force platforms embedded in the data collection room floor. After this the GRF data is normalized by the subject¿s body weight and it is expressed as a function of the percentage of the support phase. Then, the instantaneous RCOF is calculated as the ratio between the shear of the horizontal GRF components (resultant of lateral and anterior posterior GRF) and the vertical GRF. With this methodology the studies presented in the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth chapters were design. The Third and the Fourth chapters the studies about the effects of flooring in RCOF during normal and pathological gait were discussed. For this, the participant was oriented to walk on the following flooring: 1) homogeneous vinyl (HOV); 2) carpet; 3) heterogeneous vinyl (HTV); 4) mixed (the first half part of the pathway were covered by HOV and the second by HTV). All the four surfaces presented safe static coefficient of friction (ranging from 0.44-0.55) and they are widely used in residences and public facilities. The main results of these studies were: in healthy subjects¿ barefoot gait, there were differences in the RCOF among the flooring types in the heel contact and toe-off phases. Moreover, the RCOF of stroke patients was altered on the toe off phase due to the four flooring tested. In the fifth and sixth chapters, studies about the instantaneous RCOF curve analysis in patients with Stroke and PD were presented respectively. The RCOF of patients with stroke and PD exhibited patterns that were different than those of the healthy subjects. In patients with stroke the initial contact, the mid stance and the terminal stance seem to be critical phases for the incidence of slips. The patients with PD performed lower RCOF values during the loading response and terminal stance phases in comparison with the control group. These analyses represent the first attempt to explore the RCOF curve parameters during the gait analysis; moreover, its might be used in the prediction of the real fall propensity of patients with stroke and PD
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Verreault-Lefebvre, Olivier. "L'étiquetage d'aliments génétiquement modifiés dans le contexte québécois : l'impact sur les marchés et l'enjeu des frictions sur l'offre." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/30233/30233.pdf.
Full textJaniak, Alexandre. "Essais sur la mobilité géographique, sectorielle et intra-sectorielle en périodes de changement structurel : le rôle du capital humain, du capital social et de l'ouverture aux échanges." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210600.
Full textLe changement structurel est un processus nécessaire qui améliore considérablement les conditions de vie dans nos sociétés. Il peut découler par exemple de l'introduction de nouvelles avancées technologiques qui permettent d'augmenter à long terme la productivité agrégée dans nos économies. En retour, la hausse de la productivité a un impact sur notre consommation de tous les jours. Elle nous permet notamment de vivre dans un plus grand confort. Les individus peuvent alors s'épanouir dans leur ensemble. Il est évident que le changement structurel peut prendre d'autres formes que celle du changement technologique, mais il est souvent issu d'une transformation des forces qui influencent les marchés et en général aboutit à long terme à une amélioration du bien-être global.
Mais le changement structurel est aussi un processus douloureux. Il peut durer plusieurs décennies et, durant cette période, nous sommes beaucoup à devoir en supporter les coûts. Comme nous allons l'illustrer dans ce chapitre introductif, le changement structurel a pour conséquence une modification du rapport aux facteurs de production, ce qui alors mène à modifier l'ensemble des prix relatifs qui caractérisent une économie. En particulier, la modification des prix est due à une transformation des demandes relatives de facteurs. Ces derniers se révèlent alors inutiles à l'exécution de certaines tâches ou sont fortement demandés dans d'autres points de l'économie.
Souvent, le changement structurel entraîne alors un processus de réallocation. Des pans entiers de travailleurs doivent par conséquent se réallouer à d'autres tâches. Les lois du marché les incitent ainsi à devoir s'adapter à un nouveau contexte, mais elles le font pour un futur meilleur.
Cette thèse s'intéresse à cette problématique. Elle suppose que tout processus de changement structurel implique un mouvement de réallocation des facteurs de production, notamment des travailleurs puisqu'il s'agit d'une thèse en économie du travail, mais qu'un tel processus engendre souvent des coûts non négligeables. Elle se veut surtout positive, mais la nature des questions qu'elle pose mène naturellement à un débat normatif. Par exemple, elle cherche des réponses aux interrogations suivantes: comment s'ajuste une économie au changement structurel? Quelle est la nature des coûts associés au changement? Ces coûts peuvent-ils en excéder les gains? Le processus de réallocation en vaut-il vraiment la peine? Les gains issus d'un tel processus sont-ils distribués de manière égale?
La thèse est composée de quatre chapitres qui chacun considère l’impact d’un changement structurel particulier.
Le premier chapitre s’intéresse à l’impact de l’ouverture internationale aux échanges sur le niveau de l’emploi. Il s’appuie sur des travaux récents en économie internationale qui ont montré que la libéralisation du commerce mène à l’expansion des firmes les plus productives et à la destruction des entreprises dont la productivité est moins élevée. La raison de cette dichotomie est la présence d’un coût à l’entrée sur le marché des exports qui a été documentée par de nombreuses études. Certaines entreprises se développent suite à la libéralisation car elles ont accès à de nouveaux marchés et d’autres meurent car elles ne peuvent pas faire face aux entreprises les plus productives. Puisque le commerce crée à la fois des emplois et en détruit d’autres, ce chapitre a pour but de déterminer l’effet net de ce processus de réallocation sur le niveau agrégé de l’emploi.
Dans cette perspective, il présente un modèle avec firmes hétérogènes où pour exporter une entreprise doit payer un coût fixe, ce qui implique que seules les entreprises les plus productives peuvent entrer sur le marché international. Le modèle génère le processus de réallocation que l’ouverture au commerce international suppose. En effet, comme les entreprises les plus productives veulent exporter, elles vont donc embaucher plus de travailleurs, mais comme elles sont également capables de fixer des prix moins élevés et que les biens sont substituables, les entreprises les moins productives vont donc faire faillite. L’effet net sur l’emploi est négatif car les exportateurs ont à la marge moins d’incitants à embaucher des travailleurs du au comportement de concurrence monopolistique.
Le chapitre analyse également d’un point de vue empirique l’effet d’une ouverture au commerce au niveau sectoriel sur les flux d’emplois. Les résultats empiriques confirment ceux du modèle, c’est-à-dire qu’une hausse de l’ouverture au commerce génère plus de destructions que de créations d’emplois au niveau d’un secteur.
Le second chapitre considère un modèle similaire à celui du premier chapitre, mais se focalise plutôt sur l’effet du commerce en termes de bien-être. Il montre notamment que l’impact dépend en fait de la courbe de demande de travail agrégée. Si la courbe est croissante, l’effet est positif, alors qu’il est négatif si elle est décroissante.
Le troisième chapitre essaie de comprendre quels sont les déterminants de la mobilité géographique. Le but est notamment d’étudier le niveau du chômage en Europe. En effet, la littérature a souvent affirmé que la faible mobilité géographique du travail est un facteur de chômage lorsque les travailleurs sans emploi préfèrent rester dans leur région d’origine plutôt que d’aller prospecter dans les régions les plus dynamiques. Il semble donc rationnel pour ces individus de créer des liens sociaux locaux si ils anticipent qu’ils ne déménageront pas vers une autre région. De même, une fois le capital social local accumulé, les incitants à la mobilité sont réduits.
Le troisième chapitre illustre donc un modèle caractérisé par diverses complémentarités qui mènent à des équilibres multiples (un équilibre avec beaucoup de capital social local, peu de mobilité et un chômage élevé et un autre avec des caractéristiques opposées). Le modèle montre également que le capital social local est systématiquement négatif pour la mobilité et peut être négatif pour l’emploi, mais d’autres types de capital social peuvent en fait faire augmenter le niveau de l’emploi.
Dans ce troisième chapitre, une illustration empirique qui se base sur plusieurs mesures montre que le capital social est un facteur dominant d’immobilité. C’est aussi un facteur de chômage lorsque le capital social est clairement local, alors que d’autres types de capital social s’avèrent avoir un effet positif sur le taux d’emploi. Cette partie empirique illustre également la causalité inverse où des individus qui vivent dans une région qui ne correspond pas à leur région de naissance accumulent moins de capital social local, ce qui donne de la crédibilité à une théorie d’équilibres multiples.
Finalement, en observant que les individus dans le Sud de l’Europe semblent accumuler plus de capital social local, alors que dans le Nord de l’Europe on tend à investir dans des types plus généraux de capital social, nous suggérons qu’une partie du problème de chômage en Europe peut mieux se comprendre grâce au concept de capital social local.
Enfin, le quatrième chapitre s’intéresse à l’effet de la croissance économique sur la qualité des emplois. En particulier, il analyse le fait qu’un individu puisse avoir un emploi qui corresponde ou non à ses qualifications, ce qui, dans le contexte de ce chapitre, détermine s’il s’agit de bons ou mauvais emplois.
Ce chapitre se base sur deux mécanismes qui ont été largement abordés par la littérature. Le premier est le concept de « destruction créatrice » qui dit que la croissance détruit de nouveaux emplois car elle les rend obsolètes. Le second est le processus de « capitalisation » qui nous dit que la croissance va créer de nombreux emplois car les entreprises anticipent des profits plus élevés dans le futur.
Alors que des études récentes, suggèrent que la destruction créatrice ne permet pas d’expliquer le lien entre croissance et chômage, ce chapitre montre qu’un tel concept permet de mieux comprendre la relation entre croissance et qualité des emplois.
Avec des données issues du panel européen, nous illustrons que la corrélation entre croissance et qualité des emplois est positive. Nous présentons une série de trois modèles qui diffèrent de la manière suivante :(i) le fait de pouvoir chercher un emploi ou non alors qu’on en a déjà un, (ii) le fait pour une entreprise de pouvoir acquérir des équipements modernes. Les résultats suggèrent que pour expliquer l’effet de la croissance sur la qualité des emplois, la meilleure stratégie est une combinaison entre les effets dits de destruction créatrice et de capitalisation. Alors que le premier effet influence le taux de destruction des mauvais emplois, le second a un impact sur la mobilité du travail des mauvais vers les bons emplois.
Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion
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Radde, Sören [Verfasser], Frank [Akademischer Betreuer] Heinemann, Frank [Gutachter] Heinemann, and Marcel [Gutachter] Fratzscher. "Essays on liquidity frictions and macroeconomic dynamics / Sören Radde ; Gutachter: Frank Heinemann, Marcel Fratzscher ; Betreuer: Frank Heinemann." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/115627463X/34.
Full textOunaies, Senda. "Optimal investment in friction markets and equilibrium theory with unbounded attainable sets." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01E022/document.
Full textThis PhD dissertation studies two independent research topics dealing with phenomena issues from financial and economic mathematics.This thesis is organized in two parts. The first part is devoted to two contributions tothe Merton problem. First, we investigate the problem of optimal investment and consumption of Merton in the case of discrete markets in an infinite horizon. We suppose that there is frictions in the markets due to loss in trading. These frictions are modeled through nonlinear penalty functions and the classical transaction cost studied by Magill and Constantinides in [31] and illiquidity models studied by Cetin, Jarrow and Protter in [6] are included in this formulation. In this context, the solvency region is defined taking into account this penalty function and every investigator have to maximize his utility, that is derived from consumption, in this region. We give the dynamic programming ofthe model and we prove the existence and uniqueness of the value function. Optimalinvestment and consumption strategies are constructed as well. We second extend the Merton model to a multi-investors problem. Our approach is to construct a dynamic deterministic general equilibrium model. We then provide the existence of equilibrium of the problem which is a set of controls that is composed of consumption and portfolio processes, as well as the resulting price processes so that each investor’s consumption policy maximizes his lifetime expected. The results obtained in this part extends mainly the results recently obtained by Chebbi and Soner [10] and other corresponding results in the litterature.The second part of this thesis deals with the problem of the existence of an equilibrium of a production economy with unbounded attainable allocations sets where the consumers may have non-complete non-transitive preferences. We introduce an asymptotic property on preferences for the attainable consumptions in order to prove the existence of an equilibrium. We show that this condition holds true if the set of attainable allocations is compact or, when preferences are representable by utility functions, if the set of attainable individually rational utility levels is compact. This assumption generalizes the CPP condition of Allouch [1] and covers the example of Page et al. [40] when the attainable utility levels set is not compact. So we extend the previous existence results with unbounded attainable sets in two ways by adding a production sector and considering general preferences
Aubert, Diane. "On the design of fair environmental fiscal policies with workers heterogeneity : three essays in applied theory." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01E019.
Full textThis Ph.D. dissertation studies the incidence of environmental taxation between heterogeneous workers. In a theoretical framework, it analyses the design of environmental fiscal policy in regards with three competing goals : reducing emissions, improving economic efficiency, and limiting economic inequality. It consists of an introduction and three chapters (essays), each of them focusing on a different aspect of the problem. The first chapter uses a model with endogenous education and looks at how environmental taxation can affect efficiency and equity through its effects on educational choices. The second chapter focuses on the impact of green taxes on inequalities and unemployment using a search-friction model. The third one deals with regional disparities in regards with unemployment, wages and preferences
Créchet, Jonathan. "Employment protection legislation in a frictional labor market." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21169.
Full textThis thesis analyzes the effect of employment protection on labor market outcomes. The thesis focuses on the impact of firing restrictions and the regulation of temporary contracts. In many OECD countries, the employment protection legislation combines high firing restrictions and relatively lax regulation of temporary jobs which is, according to several economists, a source of labor market segmentation. The first chapter argues that analyzing the effect of employment protection requires to understand how economic agents choose between permanent and temporary contracts. This chapter examines a dynamic employment contract between a risk-averse worker and a risk-neutral firm. I argue in this chapter that the choice between a permanent and a temporary contract is driven by a trade-off between efficient risk-sharing and flexibility. The second chapter builds a model of the labor market with search frictions, in which the contracting problem of chapter 1 is embedded. Thus, this chapter proposes a model in which the allocation of agents into permanent and temporary jobs is endogenous to risk-sharing considerations. The model is calibrated to the features of the French labor market during the 2000s and indicates that temporary contracts tend to increase productivity but unemployment as well. The third chapter proposes a life-cycle model to evaluate the effect of firing costs across different experience and education groups. The model is calibrated using a French labor force survey dataset. Policy experiments suggest that firing costs have a negative effect on employment, which is concentrated on low experience and education workers.
Kiarsi, Mehrab. "Essays on optimal fiscal and monetary policies." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16014.
Full textThis dissertation consists of three essays on optimal fiscal and monetary policies. In the first two essays, I consider New Keynesian frameworks with frictional labor markets, money and distortionary income tax rates. In the first one, I study the joint determination of optimal fiscal and monetary policy and the role of worker's bargaining power on this determination. In the second one, I study the effects of worker’s bargaining power on the welfare costs of three monetary policy rules, which are: inflation targeting and simple monetary rules that respond to output and labor market tightness, with and without interest-rate smoothing. In the third essay, I study the optimality of the Friedman rule in monetary economies where demand for money is motivated by firms, originated in a cash-in-advance constraint. In the first essay, I find that when the worker’s bargaining power is low, the Ramsey-optimal policy calls for a significantly high optimal annual rate of inflation, in excess of 9.5%, that is also highly volatile, in excess of 7.4%. The Ramsey government uses inflation to induce efficient fluctuations in labor markets, despite the fact that changing prices is costly and despite the presence of time-varying labor taxes. The quantitative results clearly show that the planner relies more heavily on inflation, not taxes, in smoothing distortions in the economy over the business cycle. Indeed, there is a quite clear trade-off between the optimal inflation rate and its volatility and the optimal income tax rate and its variability. The smaller is the degree of price stickiness, the higher are the optimal inflation rate and inflation volatility and the lower are the optimal income tax rate and income tax volatility. For a ten times smaller degree of price stickiness, the optimal rate of inflation and its volatility rise remarkably, over 58% and 10%, respectively, and the optimal income tax rate and its volatility decline dramatically. These results are significant given that in the frictional labor market models without fiscal policy and money, or in the Walrasian-based New Keynesian frameworks with even a rich array of real and nominal rigidities and for even a miniscule degree of price stickiness, price stability appears to be the central goal of optimal monetary policy. Absent fiscal policy and money demand frictions, optimal rate of inflation falls to very near zero, with a volatility about 97 percent lesser, consistent with the literature. In the second essay, I show how the quantitative results imply that worker's bargaining weight and welfare costs of monetary rules are related negatively. That is, the lower the bargaining power of workers, the larger the welfare losses of monetary rules. However, in a sharp contrast to the literature, the rules that respond to output and labor market tightness feature considerably lower welfare costs than the inflation targeting rule. This is specifically the case for the rule that responds to labor market tightness. The welfare costs also remarkably decline by increasing the size of the output coefficient in the monetary rules. My findings indicate that by raising the worker's bargaining power to the Hosios level and higher, welfare losses of the three monetary rules drop significantly and response to output or market tightness does not, anymore, imply lower welfare costs than the inflation targeting rule, which is in line with the existing literature. In the third essay, I first show that the Friedman rule in a monetary model with a cash-in-advance constraint for firms is not optimal when the government to finance its expenditures has access to distortionary taxes on consumption. I then argue that, the Friedman rule in the presence of these distorting taxes is optimal if we assume a model with raw-efficient labors where only the raw labor is subject to the cash-in-advance constraint and the utility function is homothetic in two types of labor and separable in consumption. Once the production function exhibits constant-returns-to-scale, unlike the cash-credit goods model that the prices of both goods are the same, the Friedman is optimal even when wage rates are different. If the production function has decreasing or increasing-returns-to-scale, then to have the optimality of the Friedman rule, wage rates should be equal.
Santos, João Pedro Matos. "Gait analysis using instrumented shoes - Friction coefficient measurements." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/86616.
Full textA análise da marcha humana é um campo amplamente investigado com aplicabilidade que vai para além da área da medicina. O desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias (sapatos instrumentados, sistemas de visão, plataformas de pressão) permite o desenvolvimento de novas formas de caracterizar a marcha humana com maior precisão e menor esforço. Com o aparecimento de robôs bípedes tornou-se importante para quem trabalha nesta área compreender a marcha humana para dar aos robôs um andar mais natural.O principal objetivo deste projeto era verificar e corrigir quaisquer problemas existentes nos sapatos instrumentados e desenvolver uma aplicação Android capaz de realizar a aquisição de dados provenientes dos sapatos. Esta aplicação deveria utilizar uma ligação Bluetooth para estabelecer a comunicação com os dois sapatos em simultâneo. Os dados recolhidos devem ser guardados no dispositivo e devem estar disponíveis para transferência para um computador onde serão processados. Com recurso à aplicação desenvolvida foram realizadas um conjunto de experiências utilizando diferentes coeficientes de atrito com o solo. O processamento e a análise dos dados foram realizados utilizando uma aplicação existente para o Matlab. Os resultados obtidos são úteis para compreender o modo como os seres humanos se comportam em ambientes normais e em ambientes escorregadios (baixo coeficiente de atrito) onde é necessário um maior esforço para manter o equilíbrio. Esta informação é bastante útil para a programação de robôs bípedes.Concluindo, foi possível corrigir os problemas encontrados nos sapatos instrumentados e verificar que os mesmos estão a funcionar corretamente. No que diz respeito à aplicação Android esta consegue fazer a aquisição e o armazenamento dos dados de forma correta e eficiente.
The human gait analysis is a widely research topic with applications that go beyond the medicine area. The development of new technologies (instrumented shoes, vision systems, pressure platform) allows the development of new ways to characterize the human gait with more precision and less effort. With the appearance of biped robots became important for those who work in this area to understand the human gait in order to give the robots a more natural walk.The main goal of this project was to verify and correct any problems in the existing instrumented shoes and to develop an Android application capable of acquiring the data coming from the instrumented shoes. This application should use a Bluetooth connection in order to communicate with both shoes at the simultaneously. The gathered data should be stored on the device and should be available to be transferred to a computer to be processed. Using the developed application a set of experiments were carried out using different friction coefficients against the ground. The processing and analysis of the data were performed using an existing application for Matlab. The results are helpful to understand how humans behave in a normal environments and in slippery environments (low friction coefficient) where a major effort is needed to keep balance. This information is quite useful to program biped robots.In conclusion, it was possible to correct the problems found on the instrumented shoes and verify that they are working properly. Regarding the Android application it can acquire and store the data in a correct and efficient way.
Koumtingue, Nelnan F. "Essays in open economy macroeconomics with borrowing frictions." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5967.
Full textThis thesis consists of three essays in open economic macroeconomics and international trade. I consider the following questions: Which countries find it individually optimal to form an economic union? (essay 1); is the rising cross-sectional dispersion in net foreign asset positions consistent with a relatively stable dispersion in investment rates? (essay 2); is the risk of trade diversion due to existing preferential trade areas an important factor in excluded countries decision to seek one? (essay 3). The first essay studies the individual optimality of economic integration. It emphasizes the risk-sharing benefits of economic integration. In an initial situation, countries have very limited possibilities to share idiosyncratic endowment risk because of financial frictions: international financial markets are incomplete and contracts not enforceable. A union is an arrangement that solves both the market incompleteness and the lack of enforcement problems among member countries. The union as a whole still faces these frictions when trading in the world economy. The model emphasizes the following key trade-off. There are two benefits from economic integration: better risk-sharing among member countries and the possibility for poor partners to use the rich partners' credit lines. The costs are the following: borrowing limits become tighter because defaulting on international debt becomes less costly for union partners. Since poor partners may benefit from the rich partner's credit limit, this generates a negative externality: rich partners will find themselves more often borrowing-constrained in a union compared to standing alone in the world economy. Consistently with evidence on economic integration, the model predicts that economic unions occur relatively infrequently and are more likely to emerge among homogeneous and rich countries. The rising dispersion of external imbalances over the recent decades and the record-high levels reached by some major economies has received considerable attention during the recent years. The second essay focuses on one of such imbalances: the net foreign asset positions (NFA). One can view this rising dispersion as a consequence of the reduction in barriers to capital flows. But in such case, one would expect the dispersion in investment rates to go up as well because one fundamental reason countries borrow and lend internationally is to finance their investments needs. Instead, the dispersion in investment rates was relatively stable. To explain this puzzling fact, I undertake a quantitative analysis of the global dispersion of net foreign asset positions and investment rates. The framework is an integrated model of world economy where countries differences arise from idiosyncratic shocks to their total factor productivity levels. International capital flows is restricted: the menu of assets traded is exogenously restricted to a risk-free bond, and international lending contracts are not legally enforceable. At any time, a country may choose to repudiate its foreign debt subject to financial exclusion and an output cost. The output cost captures margins other than financial exclusion through which defaulting countries can be punished. When calibrated to match the evolution of the cross-sectional dispersion in net foreign asset positions, the model produces a relatively stable dispersion in investment rates. The reason is because the incentives to invest are related to the productivity, not to the borrowing and lending opportunities. Although the opportunities to borrow and lend internationally have increased, the incentives to invest have not changed much, thereby generating a large cross-sectional dispersion in NFA positions with a relatively stable dispersion in investment rates. The third essay investigates empirically whether the risk of trade diversion faced by countries excluded from preferential trade areas (PTA) is determinant in their decision to seek a preferential trade agreement. Using the trade complementarity index, I derive a measure of the potential of trade diversion and estimate a probit model of the formation of PTAs between 1961 and 2005. The results show that country-pairs facing a larger potential of trade diversion are more likely to form a PTA in the future.
Gbohoui, William Dieudonné Yélian. "Essays on the Effects of Corporate Taxation." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13976.
Full textThis thesis is a collection of three papers in macroeconomics and public finance. It develops Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models with a special focus on financial frictions to analyze the effects of changes in corporate tax policy on firm level and macroeconomic aggregates. Chapter 1 develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with a representative firm to assess the short-run effects of changes in the timing of corporate profit taxes. First, it extends the Ricardian equivalence result to an environment with production and establishes that a temporary corporate profit tax cut financed by future tax-increase has no real effect when the tax is lump sum and capital markets are perfect. Second, I assess how strong the ricardian forces are in the presence of financing frictions. I find that when equity issuance is costly, and when the firm faces a lower bound on dividend payments, a temporary tax cut reduces temporary the marginal cost of investment and implies positive marginal propensity of investment. Third, I analyze how do the intertemporal substitution effects of tax cuts interact with the stimulative effects when tax is not lump-sum. The results show that when tax is proportional to corporate profit, the expectations of high future tax rates reduce the expected marginal return on investment and mitigate the stimulative effects of tax cuts. The net investment response depends on the relative strength of each effect. Chapter 2 is co-authored with Rui Castro. In this paper, we quantify how effective temporary corporate tax cuts are in stimulating investment and output via relaxation of financing frictions. In fact, policymakers often rely on temporary corporate tax cuts in order to provide incentives for business investment in recession times. A common motivation is that such policies help relax financing frictions, which might bind more during recessions. We assess whether this mechanism is effective. In an industry equilibrium model where some firms are financially constrained, marginal propensities to invest are high. We consider a transitory corporate tax cut, funded by public debt. By increasing current cash flows, corporate tax cuts are effective at stimulating current investment. On impact, aggregate investment increases by 26 cents per dollar of tax stimulus, and aggregate output by 3.5 cents. The stimulative output effects are long-lived, extending past the period the policy is reversed, leading to a cumulative effect multiplier on output of 7.2 cents. A major factor preventing larger effects is that this policy tends to significantly crowd out investment among the larger, unconstrained firms. Chapter 3 studies the effects of the 1992's U.S. Treasury Department proposal of a Comprehensive Business Income Tax (CBIT) reform. According to the U.S. tax code, dividend and capital gain are taxed at the firm level and further taxed when distributed to shareholders. This double taxation may reduce the overall return on investment and induce inefficient capital allocation. Therefore, tax reforms have been at the center of numerous debates among economists and policymakers. As part of this debate, the U.S. Department of Treasury proposed in 1992 to abolish dividend and capital gain taxes, and to use a Comprehensive Business Income Tax (CBIT) to levy tax on corporate income. In this paper, I use an industry equilibrium model where firms are subject to financing frictions, and idiosyncratic productivity and entry/exit shocks to assess the long run effects of the CBIT. I find that the elimination of the capital gain and dividend taxes is not self financing. More precisely, the corporate profit tax rate should be increased from 34\% to 42\% to keep the reform revenue-neutral. Overall, the results show that the CBIT reform reduces capital accumulation and output by 8\% and 1\%, respectively. However, it improves capital allocation by 20\%, resulting in an increase in aggregate productivity by 1.41\% and in a modest welfare gain.