Lunch Seminar

Friday 5 December 2014

Lunch seminar : Eve COLSON and Johannes BUGGLES - December 5th

Eve COLSON will present Distinction vs. Aspiration: Status Consumption and Reference Groups in Rural India, joint with Clément Bellet.

Johannes BUGGLES will present The Economic Legacy of Russian Serfdom.

More about Johannes BUGGLES and his research

Date: Friday, December 5th - 12:30 - 14:30

Location: Department of Economics, 28 Rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room H405

Please be sure to register before Thursday at 5:00 PM : doodle

Lunch seminars are dedicated to presentations 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.

DEPARTMENTAL Seminar

Monday 8 December 2014

Departmental Seminar: Thierry MAGNAC (TSE) - December 8th

Post schooling human capital investments and the life cycle variance of earnings (PDF), joint with Nicolas Pistolesi (TSE) and Sébastien Roux (Banque de France, Ined, CREST)

Date: Monday, December 8th - 14:45 - 16:45

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

More about Thierry MAGNAC and his research

Departmental 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.

TRADE Seminar

Tuesday 9 December 2014

Trade Seminar Sciences Po / PSE: Nuno LIMAO (Maryland) - December 9th

Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and the U.S. (PDF), joint with Kyle Handley (University of Michigan)

Date: Tuesday December 9th - 14:30 - 16:00

Location: Sciences Po, Department of Economics,  28, rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room H 202B

More about Nuno LIMAO and his research

If you would like to make an appointment with the speaker please doodle.

Trade seminars (EEP / INRA / Sciences Po) present recent works by French and foreign scholars about International trade and its frontiers with other fields. The seminar has become a major meeting point for trade economists in Paris. Tuesday, 14h45, every 2 weeks.

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Department Reading Group

Friday 5 December 2014

Reading Group - December 5th

Paul VERTIER will present:

Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty, American Economic Review 81 (5): 1146-1155

by Raquel Fernandez and Dani Rodrik.

Date: Friday, December 5th - 10:30 - 12:00

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room H405

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Paul Krugman reviews Marion Fourcade, Etienne Ollion and Yann Algan's JEP paper in the New York Times

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INSTITUTIONAL News

The Department is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Applied Econometrics

We invite you to apply now for this position in the field of Applied Microeconometrics (starts September 1st, 2015).

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Centre of the Americas: Call for Applications to the Doctoral Exchange Programme

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BUSINESS and Economics

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Morgan Stanley Spring Insight Rotational Programme

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

Job Offer - Mazars

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Internship - Rothschild

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Internship - Société Générale

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