› Optimal contingent debt contract with moral hazard: Evidence from LDCs involved in HIPC initiative∗ - Jean Bernard Boyabe, Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Management et Economie (Discussant: Samir Zine El Alaoui)
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Investigating the Effect of Macroeconomic Drivers on External Public Debt Dynamics in East Africa - William Irungu Ng'ang'a, Strathmore Business School, Strathmore University, Kenya (Discussant: Jean Bernard Boyabe)
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Optimalité de la politique monétaire de la BEAC: Une analyse contrefactuelle depuis 2001 - Evrard Ulrich Mounkala, Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale (Discussant: Samuel Guérineau)
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Does decentralization cause strategic behavior between local governments in developing countries? : Evidence from Morocco - Samir Zine El Alaoui (Discussant: William Irungu Ng'ang'a)
12:30-13:00 (30min)
› The Golden Rule of Capital Accumulation with Workers' Remittances - Nicolas Destrée, Aix-Marseille School of Economics (Discussant: Jérôme Valette)
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Networks and migrants' intended destination - Simone Bertoli, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international (Discussant: Teresa Randazzo)
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal - Teresa Randazzo, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca - Matloob Piracha, University of Kent (Discussant: Simone Bertoli)
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Multiculturalism and Growth: Skill-Specific Evidence from the Post-WW2 Period - Jérôme Valette, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international (Discussant: Nicolas Destrée)
12:30-13:00 (30min)
11:00 - 13:00 (2h)
Transformation and Trade
Messance
Philippe de Vreyer (DIAL, Université Paris Dauphine)
› French Neo-Colonialism? Franco-African Trade After Independence - Emmanuelle Lavallée, PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine, LEDa, UMR DIAL (Discussant: Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael)
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Exports factor content, factor endowment and FDI-driven industrialization in developing countries: A Panel-VAR approach - Pauline Lectard, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (Discussant: Emmanuelle Lavallée)
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Industrial Transformation with Heterogeneous Labour and Foreign Experts - King Yoong Lim, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester (Discussant: Pauline Lectard)
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› To Sew or Not to Sew? Assessing the Welfare Effects of the Garment Industry in Cambodia - Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international (Discussant: King Yoong Lim)
12:30-13:00 (30min)
11:00 - 13:00 (2h)
Capital Movements
Pascal
Oliver Morrissey (University of Nottingham)
› Does it Pour When it Rains? Capital Flows and Economic Growth in Developing Countries - Patrick Plane, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international - Tidiane Kinda, "Research Department International Monetary Fund (IMF)" - Jean-Louis Combes, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international - Ouedrago Rasmane, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international (Discussant: Khalid Sekkat )
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Jam tomorrow but never jam today: Do democratic transitions attract foreign investors and how fast? - Jean Lacroix, Centre Emile Bernheim - Université Libre de Bruxelles (Discussant: Jean-Louis Combes)
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› L'impact du Printemps arabe sur les transferts de fonds de migrants tunisiens - Farid Makhlouf, ESC Pau (Discussant: Patrick Plane)
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Modeling the volatility of Chinese gold market with ARCH familly models - Bing XIAO, Université d'Auvergne (Discussant: Jean Lacroix)
12:30-13:00 (30min)
› The interest rates and social performance of MFIs in the MENA region: A model of instrumental variables upon a balanced panel (2004-2014) - Philippe Adair, Equipe de Recherche sur l'Utilisation des Données Individuelles Temporelles en Economie, Université Paris-Est Créteil, University Paris-Est Créteil (Discussant: Wilfried Guets)
14:30-15:00 (30min)
› Approche monétaire et non monétaire de la mesure de la croissance pro-pauvres en Afrique subsaharienne - Wilfried Guets, Université de Yaoundé II-Faculté de sciences économiques et de gestion-(FSEG), Cameroun (Discussant: Philippe Adair)
15:00-15:30 (30min)
› An almost ideal demand system estimation for Turkey with time-varying parameters: budget and own-price elasticity results - Fethiye Burcu Turkmen Ceylan, Ahi Evran University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, School of International Development (Discussant: Yu Zheng)
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989-2009 - Yu Zheng, City University of Hong Kong and European University Institute (Discussant: Fethiye Burcu Turkmen Ceylan)
16:00-16:30 (30min)
› Migration and Climate Change: Evidence from Mexico - Isabelle Chort, Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine (Discussant: Cécile Batisse)
14:30-15:00 (30min)
› Growth in an OLG economy with a polluting non-renewable resource - Nicolas Clootens, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans (Discussant: Maëlys de la Rupelle)
15:00-15:30 (30min)
› Climate Change and Food Security: Do Spatial Spillovers Matter? - Somlanare Romuald Kinda, Université Ouaga II (Discussant: Nicolas Clootens)
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› The provincial determinant of China's climate mitigation policy - Mary-Françoise Renard, CERDI (Discussant: Somlanare Romuald Kinda)
16:00-16:30 (30min)
14:30 - 16:30 (2h)
Institutions and Economic Assessment
Messance
Mathilde Maurel (CES - CNRS-University of Paris)
› Les évaluations aléatoires : un examen critique - Guillaume Jean, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, laboratoire CEMOTEV (Discussant: Marie-Eve Yergeau)
14:30-15:00 (30min)
› Corruption and informal firms performance: West African evidence - Emmanuelle Lavallée, PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine, LEDa, UMR DIAL (Discussant: Guillaume Jean)
15:00-15:30 (30min)
› Divergences of institutions and bilateral trade in services: a sectoral approach - Isabelle Rabaud, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans (Discussant: Emmanuelle Lavallée)
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› L'impact de l'écotourisme sur le bien-être local dans les zones protégées du Népal : une approche multiniveaux - Marie-Eve Yergeau, Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée, Groupe de recherche en économie et développement international (Discussant: Isabelle Rabaud)
16:00-16:30 (30min)
› Government Spending Cyclicality in Developing Countries: The Role of Remittances - Issifou Ismael, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans (Discussant: Enow Tagem Abrams Mbu)
17:00-17:30 (30min)
› Corruption and Monetary Policy in a Cash-in-Advance Economy - Réda Marakbi, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans - Patrick Villieu, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans (Discussant: Issifou Ismael)
17:30-18:00 (30min)
› Aid, Taxes And Government Spending: A Heterogeneous, Cointegrated Panel Analysis - Abrams Mbu Enow Tagem, University of Nottingham (Discussant: Réda Marakbi)
18:00-18:30 (30min)
17:00 - 19:00 (2h)
Education and Social Transformation
Leduc & James
Isabelle Rabaud (LEO, Orléans)
› The education motive for migrant remittances: Theory and evidence from India - Matthieu Delpierre, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (Discussant: Riana Razafimandimby Andrianjaka)
17:00-17:30 (30min)
› Two Africas? Why Africa's ‘Growth Miracle' Barely Reduced Poverty - Oliver Morrissey, School of Economics, University of Nottingham (Discussant: Matthieu Delpierre)
17:30-18:00 (30min)
› Education and income inequality in developing Asia: Where do we stand? - Thi Hong Hanh Pham, Laboratoire d'Economie et de Management de Nantes-Atlantique (Discussant: Oliver Morrissey)
18:00-18:30 (30min)
› Middle-class, structural transformation and growth: Exploring three dimensions of the middle-class in middle-income countries - Riana Razafimandimby Andrianjaka, GREThA - Université de Bordeaux (Discussant: Hi Hong Hanh Pham)
18:30-19:00 (30min)
› Sanitation and child health in India - Britta Augsburg, The Institute for Fiscal Studies (Discussant: Nicolas Yol)
17:00-17:30 (30min)
› When Solidarity Fails: Heterogeneous Effects of Orphanhood in Senegalese Households - Björn Nilsson, DIAL, Université Paris-Dauphine (Discussant: Britta Augsburg)
17:30-18:00 (30min)
› Demand for private healthcare in a universal public health care system Empirical evidence from Sri Lanka - Asankha Pallegedara, University of Passau, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka (Discussant: Björn Nilsson)
18:00-18:30 (30min)
› Do remittances impact public transfers ? Exploring the case of health expenditure in a macro perspective - Nicolas Yol, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (Discussant: Asankha Pallegedara)
18:30-19:00 (30min)
17:00 - 19:00 (2h)
Development and Vulnerabilities
Rouher
Khalid Sekkat (University of Brussels)
› Access to Financial Services and Working Poverty in Developing Countries - Aissata Coulibaly, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international (Discussant: Gilles Kane)
17:00-17:30 (30min)
› Oil Exploitation, Poverty and Inequality in Chad - Gilles Kane, Université de Yaoundé II (Discussant: Djedje Hermann Yohou)
17:30-18:00 (30min)
› Has Algeria suffered from the Dutch disease? Evidence from 1960–2013 data - Imene Laourari, Université Constantine 2 (Discussant: Aissata Coulibaly)
18:00-18:30 (30min)
› Reassessing Tax Effort in Developing Countries: a Proposal of a Vulnerability-Adjusted Tax Effort Index (VATEI) - Djedje Hermann Yohou, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international (Discussant: Imene Laourari)
18:30-19:00 (30min)
› Child Labor and Market Access: Identifying Excluded Households in Madagascar - Samia Badji, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique (Discussant: Brice Nkoumou)
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Sex-selective abortion: Measuring the Who, How Many & How Often - Véronique Gille, Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme (Discussant: Samia Badji)
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Decent work or migration: what is the best strategy to fight poverty and to promote children's education? - Ababacar Sedikh Gueye, CERDI - University of Auvergne (Discussant: Véronique Gille)
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Emplois atypiques et écarts de salaires en milieux urbains du Cameroun : le cas des professionnels de santé - Brice Nkoumou, DIAL - Université Paris Dauphine / REMA (Discussant: Ababacar Sedikh Gueye)
12:30-13:00 (30min)
› Une fonction de réaction pour la Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale dans un contexte de dominance fiscale - Jacques Landry Bikai, Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale - Moustapha Mbohou Mama, Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale (Discussant: Florian Léon)
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Store Credit as Informal Insurance in Rural Yemen - Sikandra Kurdi, Ecole d'Économie de Paris (Discussant: Carolina Laureti)
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Flexible Microfinance Products to Cope with Shocks: Evidence from SafeSave - Carolina Laureti, Université libre de Bruxelles, Centre for European Research in Microfinance (Discussant: Sikandra Kurdi)
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Do banks and micronance institutions compete? Microevidence from Madagascar - Florian Léon, University of Luxembourg, CREA (Discussant: Jacques Landry Bikai)
12:30-13:00 (30min)
11:00 - 13:00 (2h)
Institutions
Messance
Emmanuelle Lavallée (PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine, LEDa, UMR DIAL)
› The effect of parliamentary experience on contemporary democracy in Africa - Joseph Keneck Massil, EconomiX-Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense - Sophie Harnay, BETA-Université de Lorraine (Discussant: Haishan Yuan)
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› "Cursed is the ground because of you": Religion, Ethnicity, and the Adoption of Fertilizers in Rural Ethiopia - Alexander Jordan, Università degli studi di Torino (Discussant: Joseph Keneck Massil)
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Media and Political Participation : Evidence from the Afro Barometer - Kader Charlemagne Nikiema, Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne (Discussant: Alexander Jordan)
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Distributive Implications for Governing Party Constituencies: Evidence from Bangladesh - Haishan Yuan, The University of Queensland (Discussant: Kader Charlemagne Nikiema)
12:30-13:00 (30min)
› City Size and Crime: empirical evidence from Ecuador - Andrea Aguirre Sanchez, Univ. Lyon, UJM Saint-Etienne (Discussant: Inma Martinez-Zarzoso)
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Don't Touch my Road. Evidence from India on Affirmative Action and Everyday Discrimination. - Victoire Girard, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans (Discussant: Andrea Aguirre-Sanchez)
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Nexus between Land Redistribution and Violence-Evidence from West Bengal - Rohan Gudibande, Graduate institute of International and Development Studies,Geneva (Discussant: Victoire Girard)
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Legislation versus treaties: the effect on environmental outcomes in an open economy - Inma Martinez-Zarzoso, University of Goettingen - Thais Nunez Rocha, Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne (Discussant: Rohan Gudibande)
12:30-13:00 (30min)
› How Do Education and Unemployment Affect Support for Violent Extremism? Evidence from eight Arab countries - Kartika Bhatia, The World Bank - Hafez Ghanem, The World Bank (Discussant: Rohen D'aiglepierre)
14:30-15:00 (30min)
› Investing in Boys and Girls: Schooling Decisions of Long-Run Microfinance Participants in Rural India - Timothée Demont, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international (Discussant: Kartika Bhatia)
15:00-15:30 (30min)
› Macroeconomic Crisis, Primary Education And Aid Effectiveness - Rohen d'Aiglepierre, Agence française de développement (Discussant: Thimothée Demont)
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› The more the merrier? Adjusting fertility to weather shocks. - Olivia Bertelli, University of Lancaster (Discussant: Victor Stephane)
14:30-15:00 (30min)
› Natural Disaster and Exports of Agricultural Products in Developing Countries - Hajare El Hadri, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans (Discussant: Olivia Bertelli)
15:00-15:30 (30min)
› A statistical analysis of precipitation extremes and the innovative responsiveness of farmers in rural Tanzania - Nadine Marmai, University of Torino (Discussant: Hajare El Hadri)
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› How Do Natural Disasters Affect Saving Behavior? - Victor STEPHANE, Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international (Discussant: Nadine Marmai)
16:00-16:30 (30min)
14:30 - 16:30 (2h)
Trade and Development
Messance
Jim de Melo (Ferdi, Université de Genève)
› Recklessly Ricardian? The effect of development aid on sectoral exports - Lennart Kaplan, Georg-August-University - Hendrik Kruse, Georg-August-University (Discussant: Minh Hong Phi)
14:30-15:00 (30min)
› Energy efficiency gains from trade in intermediate inputs: Firm-level evidence from Indonesia - Michele Imbruno, Cerdi-Université d'Auvergne & GEP Nottingham (Discussant: Lennart Kaplan)
15:00-15:30 (30min)
› Trade Preferences for Least Developed Countries. Are they Effective? Econometric Evidence - Inma Martinez-Zarzoso, University of Goettingen (Discussant: Michele Imbruno)
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› Export diversification and real exchange rate in emerging Latin America and Asia: A South-North vs South-South decomposition - Minh Hong Phi, Foreign Trade University, Hanoi - Thi Anh-Dao Tran, Centre de Rechercher en Economie Appliquée à la Mondialisation - Diadié Diaw, Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Analyse des Processus Humains et Sociaux (Discussant: Inma Martinez-Zarzoso)
16:00-16:30 (30min)
14:30 - 16:30 (2h)
Rural Areas and Education Economics
Pascal
Jean-Marie Baland (Université de Namur)
› An Analysis of Perceived School Quality in Rural Pakistan - Marine De Talancé, Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme (Discussant: Tsiry Andrianampiarivo)
14:30-15:00 (30min)
› A Field Experiment on Skill-Based School Health Education in Rural Bangladesh - Makiko Omura, Meiji Gakuin University (Discussant: Marine De Talancé)
15:00-15:30 (30min)
› Are educated leaders good for education? Evidence from India - Soham Sahoo, University of Goettingen (Discussant: Makiko Omura)
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› Rural Class Structure and Transitions in Family Farming: What do the Moderate Prosperity Households in Rural Itasy (Madagascar) Tell Us? - Tsiry Andrianampiarivo, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (Discussant: Soham Sahoo)
16:00-16:30 (30min)