Underground Economy

Dear readers,

On behalf of the whole team, we wish you a happy new year 2022! May the coming year be full of opportunities and achievements.

A new TSEconomist team was formed this first semester without which this 29th edition wouldn't have been possible. Thus, I would like to thank all the members for their participation and also the readers for their support and feedback. This issue focuses on underground economy. The authors were thrilled about this topic since most of the articles of the issue are in the spotlight section. You can read about addiction, prostitution but also avocado production and Nuevo León’s informal economy.

In the academic section can be found two business talk summaries: we had the chance to welcome Sylvie Goulard, Deputy Governor of the Banque de France, and Shruti Sinha, working for Amazon. If you want to read about women in sciences and the matilda effect I invite you to read the No Economics section. The French Corner section contains an

article wondering if Airbnb can displace traditional forms of holiday accommodation.

The choice to take a gap year is coming soon, hence you can find testimonies of two students who did a gap year in the professional section. We hope they will help you with your choice. One of them spent half a year in Italy in a university and then did an internship, and the other one did an exchange year in Germany for her Master 1 and then

a gap year to do internships. This issue's on campus investigation is about internships. Finding an internship can be very stressful and can take time. We surveyed students to know more about how they got

their internship(s) so we could give you some advice.

The return to normal enabled us to organize our first coffee talk of the 2021-2022 academic year, and we hope to continue in this way with another coffee talk this semester and a public lecture. As always, we are very pleased to get any feedback, new ideas, and to integrate new

members so don't hesitate.

Enjoy the reading!

Marie Philippe