Paris Empirical Political Economics Seminar (PEPES)
The Paris Empirical Political Economy Seminar (PEPES) is a monthly seminar series co-organised by the Department and the Paris School of Economics.
It is a forum for front-line research in applied political economy providing top international scholars in the field with the opportunity to present their work. The seminar also aims to provide a common platform in which researchers working in this field in the Paris area may come together.
Thursdays, from 12.30 to 2 pm
(sandwiches are served to registered participants).
Seminar organised by Roberto GALIBIATI (Sciences Po) and Oliver VANDEN EYNDE (PSE).
Administrative correspondent for Sciences Po: Lucie Desmaraut (email).
FALL SEMESTER 2024 (at PSE)
September 26th - Klaus DESMET (Southern Methodist University)
Latent Polarization
*CANCELLED* October 3rd - Cevat AKSOY (King's College London)
*CANCELLED* October 17th - Charles ANGELUCCI (MIT Sloan School of Management)
November 7th - Guillaume BLANC (University of Manchester)
Malthusian Migrations
November 21st - Eleonora ALABRESE (University of Bath)
Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter
December 5th - Nancy QIAN (Northwestern University)
The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power: Evidence from Chernobyl
WINTER-SPRING SEMESTER 2025 (at Sciences Po)
March 6th - Benoît SCHMUTZ-BLOCH (CREST)
The Lifecycle of Protests in the Digital Age
March 20th - Patricia FUNK (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Women in Editorial Boards: An Investigation of Female Representation in Top Economic Journals
April 3rd - Davide CANTONI (LMU Munich)
Identity and Institutional Change: Evidence from First Names in Germany, 1700–1850
May 15th - Melanie Meng XUE (London School of Economics)
British Industrialization and Cultural Change: Evidence From the Use of Proverbs
June 5th - Stephane WOLTON (London School of Economics)
The Structural Transformation of the Public Space: High-Street Changes and Populism
Fall Semester 2023
*CANCELLED* September 14th - Pedro SOUZA (Queen Mary University of London)
De-Escalation Technology: The Impact of Body-Worn Cameras on Citizen-Police Interactions
October 12th - Alberto BISIN (New York University)
Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy
October 19th - Pedro SOUZA (Queen Mary University of London)
De-Escalation Technology: The Impact of Body-Worn Cameras on Citizen-Police Interactions
November 9th - Christine BINZEL (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Institute of Economics)
The Protestant Reformation and the Transformation of Society: The Rise of the Vernacular
November 23rd - Saumitra JHA (Stanford Business School)
Markets under Siege: How Political Beliefs Move Financial Markets
December 7th - Jonathan Ro'ee LEVY (Eitan Berglas School of Economics)
Decomposing the Rise of the Populist Radical Right
Winter-Spring Semester 2024
March 7th - Caroline LE PENNEC (HEC Montréal)
Keep your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
April 25th - Marta REYNAL-QUEROL (UPF)
The Colonial Origins of State Capacity: Evidence from Spanish Conquerors in Latin America
June 6th - Aurélie OUSS (Visiting Faculty, UPenn)
Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door
*Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar: to meet the speaker, please fill out PEPES Google form*
June 13th - Awa Ambra SECK (Harvard)
En Route: The French Colonial Army, Emigration, and Development in Morocco
September 29th - Noam YUCHTMAN (LSE)
Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI
October 13th - Elias PAPAIOANNOU (London Business School)
Forced Displacement and Human Capital
October 20th - Monica MARTINEZ-BRAVO (CEMFI)
The Management of the Pandemic and its Effects on Trust and Accountability
December 1st - Arianna ORNAGHI (Hertie School)
Media Consolidation
*POSTPONED* Wednesday, March 8th - Micaela SVIATSCHI (Princeton)
*EXCEPTIONAL SCHEDULING* Wednesday, April 5th - David YANG (Harvard)
Policy Experimentation in China: the Political Economy of Policy Learning
April 20th - Torsten PERSSON (IIES)
The Political Economics of Green Transitions
June 1st - Stelios MICHAPOULOS (Brown University)
Movies
June 8th - Alexey MAKARIN (MIT)
Production Networks and War: Evidence from Ukraine
*EXCEPTIONAL SCHEDULING* Wednesday June 28th - Jacob MOSCONA (Harvard, MIT)
Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture
Fall Semester
September 23rd - Ruben DURANTE (ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
The Impact of Online Competition on Local Newspapers: Evidence from the Introduction of Craigslist
September 30th - Dominic ROHNER (University of Lausanne)
Donor Attention and Civil Unrest in Africa
*PEPES Junior* October 14th - Antonela MIHO (PSE) and Vladimir AVETIAN (Sciences Po)
Small Screen, Big Echo? Estimating the political persuasion of local television news bias using Sinclair Broadcast Group as a natural experiment and
Consider the Slavs: Overt Discrimination and Racial Disparities in the Rental Housing
November 18th - Jeanet SINDING BENTZEN (University of Copenhagen)
In the Name of God! Religiosity and the Transition to Modern Growth
*PEPES Junior* December 16th - Etienne MADINIER (PSE) and Edgard DEWITTE (Sciences Po)
Explaining the Heterogeneous Effect of Internet on Elections and
The Historical Roots of Climate Change Denial
Winter-Spring Semester
March 17th - Mara SQUICCIARINI (Bocconi University)
Religiosity and Science: An Oxymoron? Evidence from the Great Influenza Epidemic
April 7th - Jared RUBIN (Chapman University)
Ideology and Economic Change: The Path to the Modern Economy in China and Japan
May 5th - Luis MARTINEZ (Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago)
Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire
*PEPES Junior* May 12th - Ariane SALEM (University of Geneva) and Philine WIDMER (University of Saint Gallen)
En Route: The Colonial Origins of Francophone Africa's Emigration Patterns and
Propaganda Responds to Foreign News Access
May 19th - Gua XU (Berkeley Haas)
Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age
*Exceptional scheduling* June 7th - Samuel BAZZI (USC, San Diego)
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right
Fall Semester 2020
November 12th - Marta REYNAL-QUEROL (Barcelona GSE)
Colonization, Early Settlers and Development: The Case of Latin America
November 26th - Maria PETROVA (Barcelona GSE)
Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences
December 17th - Paola GIULIANO (UCLA)
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
Winter-Spring Semester 2021
March 11th - Mathieu COUTTENIER (ENS Lyon)
The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Production Network Approach
*Joint seminar with Bocconi* March 23rd - Matthew GENTZKOW (Stanford)
Digital Addiction
April 29th - Raul SANCHEZ DE LA SIERRA (Chicago Harris)
The Forging of a Rebel
June 3rd - Michael CALLEN (London School of Economics)
Does Revolution Work? Evidence from the Birth of Nepal's Federal Democracy
September 19th - Marco TABELLINI (Harvard)
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
September 26th - James SNYDER (Harvard)
The Growth of Campaign Advertising in the U.S., 1880 to 1930
November 14th - Julien LABONNE (Oxford)
Making Policies Matter: Voter Response to Campaign Promises
November 21st - Brian KNIGHT (Brown University)
Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
*CANCELLED* March 12th - Samuel BAZZI (Boston University)
*POSTPONED* March 19th - Marta REYNAL-QUEROL (Barcelona GSE)
*POSTPONED* April 2nd - Mike CALLEN (UC San Diego)
*POSTPONED* May 7th - Maria PETROVA (Barcelona GSE)
*CANCELLED* May 28th - Joachim VOTH (University of Zürich)
*POSTPONED* June 4th - Paola GIULIANO (UCLA)
