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Expertise

Crises épidémiques et mondialisation, des liaisons dangereuses ?
Only in French | In this book, available in bookstores on June 2, 2021, Economists Gilles Dufrénot (AMU/AMSE) and Anne Levasseur-Franceschi (ENS Cachan) put the health crisis of Covid-19 in globalization's broader context.
JUNE 1, 2021
JUNE 1, 2021
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Expertise

For eight in ten general practitioners, vaccination against Covid-19 is the best way to avoid new waves
Bruno Ventelou (CNRS/AMSE) health economist, co-author of a report for the French Directorate for Research, Studies, Assessment, and Statistics (only in French).
MARCH 22, 2021
MARCH 22, 2021
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Press Op-Ed

Land is back – it should be taxed, it can be taxed!
A VoxEU article written by Alain Trannoy (EHESS) and co-authors about the optimal taxation of land (only in English).
MARCH 21, 2021
MARCH 21, 2021
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Expertise

Will the European Economic Recovery Plan be effective?

The 20th Report of the European Economic Advisory Group (EEAG) "Beyond the Coronavirus Crisis: Investing for a Viable Future" recently published, focuses on the economic recovery plan "Next Generation EU" (NGEU) adopted by the European Parliament on February 10th. But will this recovery plan be able to effectively repair the economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis ? Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Professor at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics is one of the seven international authors.
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
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Tracking the pandemic dynamics

A team of researchers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics and the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone is tracking the dynamics of the Covid-19 pandemic in real time, useful for public decision-making.
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
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Covid-19 policy responses: what population preferences tell us
A team of researchers in economics elicited population preferences regarding the main anti-Covid 19 strategies in France. The scientific article is published in The Lancet Public Health.
DECEMBER 6, 2020
DECEMBER 6, 2020
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Press Op-Ed

« En privilégiant l’accès aux apprentissages des étudiants des classes préparatoires, l’exécutif malmène une nouvelle fois l’université »
In an op-ed in Le Monde, the teacher-researcher in economics Karine Gente (AMU, FEG) is indignant of the inequality created in higher education by the difference in treatment between university students and future students of 'grandes écoles'.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Press Op-Ed

French Nobel or Nobel in France?
After Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize in economics last year and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize in chemistry this year, France is in the spotlight, neither of them have done their research in France, why ? Op-ed article by Alain Trannoy in Le Echos. Only in French.
OCTOBER 12, 2020
OCTOBER 12, 2020
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Press Interview

Two billion informal workers struggling with Covid-19
Cecilia Garcia Peñalosa (CNRS, EHESS) was one of the guests of "Eco d'ici et éco d'ailleurs" on Radio France Internationale. Only in French
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Expertise

How to fight tax fraud ?
In this book, economists Nicolas Jacquemet (Univ. Paris 1 / PSE), Stéphane Luchini (CNRS / AMSE) and Antoine Malézieux (Univ. Exeter / TARC) analyze tax fraud through the prism of behavioral economics. Available in French bookstores.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020