Friday Seminar on Zoom - Apr 24th
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Benjamin MARX is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, CEPR Research Affiliate and AALIMS Faculty Fellow.
His research interests are in political economy and development.His work explores issues related to institutions, accountability, and voting behavior in developing countries, with the goal of understanding how institutions and incentives shape economic and political outcomes.
He will present a paper, joint with Samuel BAZZI and Masyhur HILMY, at the next Friday Seminar via Zoom on the theme:
More about Benjamin MARX and his research
Our next two Friday Seminars via Zoom will take place exceptionally on Thursday, from 1 to 2 PM:
- On Thursday, April 30th: Thierry MAYER will present Global Giants and Local Heroes: How Changes in Brand Ownership Affect Competition (read paper, PDF 1,15 MB)
- On Thursday, May 7th: Jeanne HAGENBACH will present Selective Memory of a Psychological Agent
The CEPR is hosting a new webinar
Hands reaching up in the air confronted with words demagogue, populist, autocrat
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) announces the creation of an online seminar series on political economy as of May 2020.
After successfully organising the first annual workshop of the Research and Policy Network (RPN) on populism last year, Sergeï GURIEV will be co-organising this new seminar series on political economy along with the CEPR Political Economy group and the RPN on conflict.
The CEPR Political Economics Webinar series will be held on the first Wednesday of every month at 15:00 London time (16:00 Paris time).
The first CEPR Political Economics Webinar will take place on May 6th, with Daron Acemoglu as its inaugural speaker. This will be followed by Guido Tabellini on June 3rd, and Eliana La Ferrara on July 1st.
The format of the webinars will be as follows: the speaker will have 60 minutes to present their research. During those 60 minutes, questions will be limited to clarifying questions. After that, there will be 15 minutes for general questions and discussions.
This webinar in political economy is for faculty members and graduate students alike and is open for registration (mandatory) now !
Friday Seminar on Zoom - Apr 17th
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Zydney WONG is a PhD candidate at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled "On the Role of Temporal Language in Economics" under the supervision of Jeanne HAGENBACH.
He will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar via zoom on the theme:
Strategic Use of Projection Variability (read the Abstract, PDF 39,79 KB )
Alaïs MARTIN-BAILLON is a PhD candidate at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled "Rethinking Monetary Policies in Heterogeneous Agents Models" under the supervision of Xavier RAGOT.
She is also currently a Research Assistant at the OFCE.
She will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar via zoom on the theme:
Firm Balance Sheet, Investment and Monetary Policy
Friday Seminar on Zoom - Apr 10th
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Stefan PAULY is a PhD candidate at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled "The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity" under the supervision of Thomas Chaney.
He will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar via zoom on the theme:
Airplanes and Innovation (read the Abstract, PDF 23,28 KB )
Clément Mazet-Sonilhac is a PhD candidate at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled "Investment, Labour Demand, Intermediary Inputs and Capital Structure: The Role of Financing Constraints", under the supervision of Thomas CHANEY.
He is also a research economist in the Division for Microeconomic and Structural Studies at Banque de France and affiliated to the Economics of Innovation Lab of the Collège de France since 2018.
He will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar via zoom on the theme:
Thomas CHANEY is awarded an ERC "Advanced" grant
Map overlaying neolithic sites and modern cities
On March 31st, 2020 the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of the latest “Advanced Grants” competition.
Advanced grants are awarded to established researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years and who would like long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high risk project.
The project “Historical Migrations, Trade, and Growth” (HMTG) submitted by permanent faculty member Thomas CHANEY, is one of only 8 projects selected at the European level in the field of economics.
It is the 15th time that one of the Department’s faculty members has been awarded an ERC grant in less than 10 years. And this is the second time that Professor Chaney has been awarded a prestigious ERC grant: in 2013 he was awarded an ERC “Starting grant” for his project “FiNet: Firms Networks, Trade, and Growth » that was prolonged until this year. He was also an NSF grant recipient in 2011 for his project “The Network Structure of International Trade”.
Thomas CHANEY is Professor of Economics at the Department since 2016. He is currently Joint Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies. He is also a Research Fellow at the CEPR (International Trade and Regional Organizations) and a Research Fellow of the CESifo Research Network. Prior to joining the Department, he was Professor of Economics at Toulouse School of Economics, where he taught since 2012.
His primary research fields are International Trade, Networks, Economic History and Finance. His work has been published in leading international, peer-reviewed journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies.
The HMTG Project builds on his FiNet ERC project whose objective was to introduce the notion of large-scale economic networks into the mainstream of economics, in particular in macroeconomics and international trade and a very original line of research he has been developing for the past few years which analyses ancient trade with the tools of modern economics (read the interview “In Search of Lost Cities”).
For this new project, Professor Chaney sets out to explore a number of questions: “Do international migrations foster economic dynamism and growth? Does the presence of immigrants and their descendants alter the attitudes and actions of natives towards foreigners? How do cities emerge and survive? Does economic growth increase wellbeing in the long run?”. The project’s hypothesis is that “direct contact between individuals affects their preferences and the technologies they use”. Professor Chaney proposes to test this hypothesis from different angles, at different points in time, and over different horizons (eight in all). The unifying methodology is to use historical data spanning the Neolithic, the Bronze Age, the Middle Age, and modern history and to collaborate with a team made up of both economists and historians.
Read more about the HMTG Project
Consult the ERC’s press release
