RESPGLOB ANR project

Our team of 6 economists received a 2024-2028 grant (ANR-23-CE26-0004-01) from the French ANR agency to work on firm responsibility and apparel value chains. Our five projects analyze issues linked to firms and consumers' behavior in global value chains, starting with the apparel industry. The ANR project is hosted at the University of Rouen and managed jointly by URN and PSE.

Project 1 The origins of globalized production within the French apparel industry

Yash Tyagi (PSE, M2 APE) worked with us as an R.A. to gather CSR data.
Historical database is being built on CASD.
Jiancong Liu recruited as a postdoctoral fellow since September 2025 at the University of Rouen.
Pierre Andrews joined us as a PhD student from Université Panthéon_Assas

Project 2 Firm outsourcing, deforestation, and certification

Joint project between Michele Fioretti, Pamina Koenig, Johanna Isman, Christian Volpe Martincus and Christoph Oberthur.
Christoph Oberthur joined as a PhD student on this project.

Project 3 How do consumers' preferences react to reputation shocks about firms?

Sales Data being used to analyze whether consumers were reactive to the Rana Plaza shock.

Jing Hang (PSE, M2 APE) worked with us as an R.A. on the Factiva database until January 2025.
Minjia Fu, Ahmed Muaz, Shruthi Nagamani are finishing the work on Factiva, and building the final database.

Project 4 Enforcing invisible standards: US-China sanctions and forced labor in trade

Recruited a PhD student at the University of Rouen, on sanctions in the apparel industry + firm outsourcing cotton in China: Andrea Pisetta is working with us on the project. Next presentation: University of Rouen, June 2026.

Project 5 Firms' financial contracts and their environmental and sourcing commitments

recruited a R.A. to work at Sciences Po with Jean-Stéphane Mesonnier
Clément Mazet joined us (assistant prof, Bocconi University).
Christoph Oberthur joined the ANR on this project (M2 student, PSE, 2024-2025) and became a PSE PHD student.