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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

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
Expertise

How did the general practitioners operate during the confinement linked to Covid-19?
Bruno Ventelou (CNRS/AMSE) health economist, co-author of a report for the French Directorate for Research, Studies, Assessment, and Statistics (only in French).
JUNE 4, 2020
JUNE 4, 2020
Press Op-Ed

"Public credit, a common sense solution to student poverty"
Only in French - With repayments based on their professional income, a system of public credit to students would be a powerful tool for equalizing opportunities, explain, in a column published in Le Monde, the jurist Martin Collet, and the economists Robert Gary-Bobo and Alain Trannoy.
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Press Op-Ed

Free university: reconsidering the French Constitutional Council's decision
Only in French - Analysis of Alain Trannoy, Director of Studies at EHESS, co-written with professors Martin Colley and Robert Gary Bobo, published on Telos platform.
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
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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
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
Press Op-Ed

The extended strangulation of economic activity, not a viable option

Op-ed published in Le Monde, 21 March 2020, Alain Trannoy (EHESS, AMSE) predicts a public deficit of 4.6 points of GDP in France and warns that the prolonged strangulation of economic activity cannot be a viable solution. Article in French only.
MARCH 20, 2020
MARCH 20, 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
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Expertise

Policy Brief : "Vulnerables" to Covid-19
Aix-Marseille School of Economics contributed to the report published by the OFCE and Collège des Economistes de la Santé. Article only in French
JUNE 29, 2020
JUNE 29, 2020