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Do economic disasters, such as the Covid-19 crisis, have an impact on financial investment behaviour? Are investors less inclined to invest after being burned by extreme falls in share prices? At the heart of the analysis is the perceived frequency of macroeconomic disasters. The more they are overestimated, the more cautious people are when it comes to financial investment. But there are ways to combat this!

Read the article here (in French).

Nobel Prize winner in economics, Indian professor of economics and philosophy, Amartya Sen has devoted his work to the economics of well-being to revolutionize its theoretical framework and introduce a more ethical and more human dimension with the concept of capability.

In a column in “Le Monde”, the Professor in Economics considers it ill-advised to reduce the expenditure of local authorities, when it is more necessary than ever to provide them with the means to cope with the consequences of bad weather.