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In just a few months’ time, the COVID-19 crisis has brought about years worth of change in the way corporations do business. Many firms have accelerated the digitalization of their customer and supply-chain interactions and their internal operations, and have exhibited a surge in investment in these

The goal of this project is to determine the impact of greenwashing on investors’ portfolio allocations and asset prices. Specifically, we want to develop methods to estimate the level of greenwashing used by firms. This will enable us to study which firms use greenwashing most (within which sector,

The ANR project SAMVAP deals with the market of seafood products, for which France is the 4th largest producer in the European Union. Its aim is to study the role of buyers in the first sale market of seafood products and to investigate the transformations of a market characterized by both a change

Agricultural co-ops are a specific form of governance, democraticly shaped, with a relevant contribution to sustainability. In France, the existing 2,300 co-ops generate 190,000 jobs. They are main actors in the agricultural sector, namely in the wine sector (45% of the production). But some signs i

We study the economic organization of French agglomerations and changes in labor markets in cities. We document new facts about the allocation of economic activity across and within cities of different sizes that we frame within newly developed spatial economic models and urban theory. Technological

The widespread view that externalities and commons generate market imperfections is usually associated with the perception of the market economy as the central resource allocation mechanism whereas such imperfections come from the periphery of the economic system and are primarily disturbing the eff

Humans are group-living species. We evolved in hunter-gatherer groups for tens of thousands of years during the Paleolithic era. Today, humans belong to various groups, identified by their gender, relatedness, social class, ethnicity, religion, or nationality. Living in groups since the pre-historic

First, we will develop a conceptual and analytical framework in which technology mutually interacts with the sustainability paradigm, operationalised through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework proposed by the United Nations, and public opinion and institutions act as mediators of the

Amid the evolution of corporate giants, the focus of researchers, policy makers, and the media shifted to understand how such increased concentration affects consumers and small producers. The grocery industry has received a lot of attention because of (i) higher concentration levels than in other s

From 2014 to 2020, the Hauts de France regional innovation strategy (SRI) consolidated all of its innovation and entrepreneurship mechanisms. The new strategic plan resulted in the development of a system for detecting, accompanying, and supporting innovative projects, based on the Astride database

A vibrant stream of research has emerged on cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) in which companies collaborate with partners from the public and/or civil society sectors to jointly address societal “grand” challenges, such as social inequalities, global pandemics, or humanitarian crises. While extant m

We first explore the impact of decentralization on voter turnout and, more specifically, use quasi-experimental methods to assess how different forms of decentralization and different modes of local governance could bring citizens and elected officials closer together at the local level. We also stu

Public and private service organizations are faced with a situation where an increasingly important part of their value is generated by distant, voice-based operations. These operations occur in a technological landscape where potentially any conversational parameter can be optimized and personalize

A large body of research indicates that air pollution affects human health and productivity (see Graff Zivin & Neidell (2013) for review). If these pollution-induced health shocks adversely affect labor productivity, then standard microeconomic theory suggests they should increase costs and prices,

DISRUPT seeks to document the interplay between social media and recent trends in politics and collective action in both advanced and fragile democracies. A central inquiry is who benefits from this transformative shift in the information and influence market. DISRUPT aims to carefully document soci

Most of the literature in economics has focused on the design of centralized mechanisms, considering students’ rankings over different alternatives and the available capacities of schools. The focus was mostly on testing how well preferences match with allocations and proposing alternative mechanism

Solving grand challenges like climate change implies systemic, multi-level social transformations and rely increasingly on transition intermediaries, which can take the form of meta-organizations, organizations of organizations. Economic geography has noted that this approach neglects the specificit

This research project aims to advance the market design literature by providing a new and extensive set of empirical evidence on the effects of admission criteria in school choice. These admission criteria, or, equivalently, priority rules, are an essential component of school choice policies in tha

The aim of this project is to explore the impact of artisanal mines (legal or illegal) on the economic development of Sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2021. This project proposes to collect exhaustive information for all Sub-Saharan African countries on the opening/closing of artisanal m

The landscape of jobs and work is evolving at an unprecedented speed, driven by advances in computer and engineering technologies, such as artificial intelligence and robotics, which have moved from the factory floor to an expanding array of knowledge and service occupations. There is no indication