Mapcompete Workshop on « Non-price competitiveness »

This workshop will take place on February 27th and is part of the Mapping European Competitiveness (MAPCOMPETE), a FP7 project led by six European research centres to provide an assessment of data opportunities and requirements for the analysis of comparative competitiveness in European countries.

The workshop is co-organized with the Paris School of Economics and Banque de France

Location: Room Goguel - 56, rue des Saint Pères 75007 Paris

Date: February 27th, from 10:00 to 18:00

The workshop will in particular deal with the issues of non-price competitiveness indicators and data collection.

If you would like to participate to the workshop please contact Maria Bas (maria.bas@sciencespo.fr). The number of participants is limited.

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Department Seminar - Carlos Carrillo-Tuleda (Essex)

Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle (joint with Ludo Visschers)

Date: Monday March 3rd - 14:45 - 16:45

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des St Pères, Paris 7 - Room H 202B

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Invitation au Facsem - Roberto GALBIATI

Roberto Galbiati will present his research on the topic "Legal and Socio-Economic determinants of Recidivism"

Date: 2/20/2014, 12:30 à 14:30

Location: 13, rue de l'Université - Room Conseil

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Claude Erignac Prize awarded to Younes BOUAZIZ and Alexandre LOURIE

The Department of Economics is delighted to announce that one of the two 2014 Claude Erignac Prizes was awarded to Younes BOUAZIZ, student enrolled in the Master Economics and Business and to Alexandre LOURIE, Master student in the Dual Degree, Sciences Po - HEC, in Corporate and Public Management .

The Claude Erignac Prize is awarded to graduates of Sciences Po's Collège and who have distinguished themeselves all along the course of their studies by their exemplary committment to public life - whether it be through academic or associative projects. Awarded by an independent jury composed of members of the Claude Erignac Association and representatives of the IEP de Paris, the Prize is destined to both encourage and help the award winners in the pursuit of their social and civic undertakings.

Younes Bouaziz will receive a grant that will allow him to research a study on how French development aid impacts the private sector in the Arab world.

Alexander LOURIE will receive a grant that will allow him to promote the French Social Entrepreneurship ideas through a book.

Congratulations!

Defence Announcement : Gong CHENG

One of our PhD will students will be soon defending his thesis

Gong CHENG 's defence: Foreign reserves, crises and growth

Thesis supervisor: Philippe Martin

Jury : Yann Algan, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Matthieu Bussière, Jean Imbs, Philippe Martin (directeur de recherche)

Gong's defence will take place on February 21, 2014 at 14h00 at Salle François Goguel,56 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris

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Visitor in March

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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He is 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: April 1st - April 11th 2014

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

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A selection of the events organized by the department's partners

Breakfast with IBM - February 13rd

8:00 am - February 13rd

A breakfast with IBM, corporate partner of the master Finance et Stratégie, is organized on February 13rd.

Students will be contacted by email for further information

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

Internship - OECD - Summer Internship 2014

Those offers are additional to the OECD offers, we advertise on a regular basis in the Newsletter - for those, do apply directly.

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