Grants & fundings
MEDPROM
(Physicians’ Reactions to Pharmaceutical Promotion)
This project assesses the impact of pharmaceutical companies’ promotional activities on physicians’ prescribing behaviour in France. To this end, we draw on a wide range of microeconomic tools, including microeconomic theory, econometric modelling using large administrative datasets, and laboratory experiments. Our project addresses two main research questions. First, using administrative data, we investigate whether physicians who have contractual relationships with pharmaceutical companies are more likely to prescribe drugs manufactured by these companies. We also examine whether such relationships lead physicians to make more costly and/or less effective prescribing decisions than they would in the absence of financial ties. In addition, we seek to disentangle the effects of the additional information provided by pharmaceutical companies from those of purely financial incentives in explaining physicians’ responses to their contractual relationships with the pharmaceutical industry.
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PI : Anne-Laure Samson
Funding Agency : Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Funding amount : 387 000 euros
Duration : 2022-2027
BREAKING
(Behavioural Responses to Inequality as a Social Ranking)
Social hierarchies are part of our evolutionary history: our brains have developed neurobiological mechanisms that allow us to interpret interactions within hierarchical structures and, consequently, shape our behaviour. Thus, inequalities arising from social hierarchies may influence behaviour independently of potentially confounding factors such as prestige, power, skills, or income. We will then seek to understand, through the development of neurocomputational models, the processes through which individuals learn about and represent inequalities arising from hierarchical structures. Our objective is to gain a better understanding of how economic inequality affects individual and collective behaviour, and to identify the underlying mechanisms through which these effects occur.
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PI : Andy Martinangeli
Funding Agency : Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Funding amount : 436 181 euros
Duration : 2025-2029
INTRUST
(Establishing causal links between institutional quality and social trust)
Social trust and institutional quality are closely intertwined: societies with high levels of trust tend to have strong institutions, and vice versa. However, the existence and direction of causality in this relationship remain subject to debate. We conduct large-scale behavioural surveys to investigate whether institutional quality (e.g. the degree of corruption or transparency) has a causal effect on social trust, while holding constant incentives (e.g. regulations or expected outcomes) and cultural factors that may influence trust (e.g. social norms).
PI: Andy Martinangeli
Funding Agency : Norwegian Research Council
Funding Amount : 690 000 euros
Duration : 2026-2030