Lunch seminar : Alexis Le Chapelain - May 2nd

Thesis title: "Endogenous and exogenous peer effects - Estimation through class size variation"

Date: Friday, May 2nd - 12:30 - 14:30

Location: Department of Economics, 28 Rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room H402

More about Alexis Le Chapelain

Please register before Thursday at 10:00 am : doodle

Lunch seminars are dedicated to presentation by doctoral students from Sciences Po and also for research in progress by academics at Sciences Po. Second and third year PhD students are strongly advised to present here their first or second thesis chapter. Friday 12h30.

Department Seminar: Orazio Attanasio (UCL) - May, 5th

"Estimating the production function for human capital to intepret the impact of an early childhood development intervention"

Date: Monday, May 5th - 14:45 - 16:15

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, Paris 7 - Room H405

More about Orazio Attanasio

If you want an appointment with the Speaker, please, email at leila.brunoir@sciencespo.fr

Monday seminars are research seminars with a focus on the field of the speakers. Meetings with the seminar speakers are an important component of the department seminar. PhD students, in particular in their third or fourth year, must use this opportunity to talk about their work.

Visitors in May

Joachim Voth (UZH)

RESEARCH FIELDS

Cultural Economics,Long-Run Growth,Sovereign Debt,Asset Market Volatility, Living Standards and Labor Supply

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Dates: May 12th - May 16th 2014

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office J402 (4th floor)

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Roland Benabou (Princeton)

RESEARCH FIELDS

Economics and psychology, behavioral economics,Incentives and norms,Ideology, social beliefs, economics or religion,Income distribution and growth, macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents,Inequality, redistributive polices,social mobility, political economy,Cities and human capital accumulation, education

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Dates: May 19th - May 23rd 2014

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office J402 (4th floor)

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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Berkeley)

RESEARCH FIELDS

Macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, finance

His research interests are consumption, precautionary savings, lending booms, fiscal federalism, forward premium puzzle, labor market and exchange rates

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Dates: May 19th - May 30th 2014

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office C405 A (4th floor)

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Nico Voigtländer (UCLA & NBER)

RESEARCH FIELDS

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Dates: May 26th - May 29th 2014

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office J402(4th floor)

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They are still visiting

Vassilis Hajivassiliou (LSE)

RESEARCH FIELDS

Applied and Theoretical Microeconometrics; Simulation-Based Inference; Inference with Thick Tailed Distributions; Panel Data Analysis; Applied Corporate Finance; Financing Constraints and Firm Behaviour.

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Dates: May 19th - May 22nd 2014

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office E406 (4th floor)

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Johannes Hörner (Yale)

RESEARCH FIELDS

His academic interests range from game theory to the theory of industrial organization. His research has focused on repeated games, dynamic games, and auctions.

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Dates: May 2nd - May 30th 2014

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office C405 Bis (4th floor)

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Department of Economics - Appel à candidature - ATER

For the coming academic year 2014/15, the Department of Economics will recruit ATERs.

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Paris Conference on Goods Markets, the Macroeconomy and Policy

Sciences Po will hold a conference on Goods Markets, the Macroeconomy and Policy, designed to bring together leading scholars in the field.

Conference theme: Research incorporating trading frictions in the goods market for the performance of the macroeconomy and the design of policy.

Date: Thursday, May 15 and Friday, May 16

Location: 98 rue de l'université, 75007 Paris - Room Georges LAVAU

Attendance is free, but interested participants must register with liepp@sciencespo.fr by May 10th at the latest

Invited speakers for the Conference include:

Robert Hall (Stanford University)
Yan Bai(Univ. Rochester)
Pascal Michaillat(LSE)
Emmanuel Saez(Berkeley)
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau(Carnegie-Mellon)
Etienne Wasmer(Sciences Po)
Sanjay K. Chugh(Boston College and Kiel Institute)
Emmanuel Fahri (Harvard University)
Luigi Paciello(Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and CEPR)
François Gourio (ULB and Sciences Po)
Paul Beaudry (UBC)
Guido Menzio(UPenn)
Wouter den Haan(LSE)

All the details on the Conference can be found here

Oragnizers are:

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau (Carnegie-Mellon)

Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po)

If you need more information, please send us an email at: liepp@sciencespo.fr

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A selection of job and internship offers by the department's partners

Internship - HSBC - Juriste (Financement Grande Clientèle)

If you are interested, you can apply on:

Juriste Banque Grande Clientèle Financements

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Internship - OECD - Summer Internship 2014

SUMMER INTERNSHIP IN EDUCATION COUNTRY POLICY REVIEWS

Start date: from June 2014, for 3 to 6 months. Full-time internship

Interested candidates should send a motivation letter, written sample and CV to:

anna.pons@oecd.org and yuri.belfali@oecd.org

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Internship - Société Générale - Direction des Achats

If you are interested, you can apply on :

Direction des achats

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