Friday Seminar - May 3rd
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Olivia TSOUTSOPLIDI is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Essays in Historical Political Economy, under the supervision of Julia CAGÉ.
Olivia TSOUTSOPLIDI will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Determinants of Women’s Emancipation Movements (abstract to follow)
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Sophia PRAETORIUS is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Trade Cost and Global Production Networks under the supervision of Thierry MAYER.
Sophia PRAETORIUS will also present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Collaboration in Technology and Multinational Production (abstract to follow)
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Date: FRIDAY, May 3rd - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next Friday Seminar will host Sam MARSHALL (Visiting PhD, Warwick) & Felipe LAURITZEN (PhD Candidate, Sciences Po) on May 17th.
Roy-ADRES Seminar - Apr 29th
Portrait of René Roy and stylised equations
Ariel RUBINSTEIN is Professor of Economics at New York University (NYU) and Emeritus in the School of Economics of Tel Aviv University TAU). He is Fellow of The Econometric Society (which he presided in 2004), an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College (Oxford), a Fellow of the European Economic Association, an Economic Theory Fellow, and a Fellow of the Game Theory Society. Among his current editorial duties, he is Member of the Advisory Committee of the Journal of European Economic Association, an Associate Editor of Theoretical Economics, and Member of the editorial board of Economics and Philosophy.
His main field of research is Economic Theory, in particular, Decision theory and Game Theory. But he was also involved in some interdisciplinary research (e.g. Law and Economics, Economic and Language). His interest in neuroeconomics emerges from his long time interest in Economic methodology. His work in the field is mainly regarding the concept of Response Time.
Ariel Rubinstein will present a paper, joint with Michael Richter, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the topic:
No prices and no games: the case of matching problems
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Date: MONDAY, April 29th - 5 pm
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R1-09
The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host David DILLENBERGER (UPenn) on May 6th.
Departmental Seminar - Apr 29th
Stylised calendar data
Dave DONALDSON is the Class of 1949 Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Associate at Theoretical Research in Development Economics(ThReD), a Research Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has occupied a number of editorial functions: most recently he was the Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023.
His research focuses on trade, both international and intranational, with applications in the fields of International Economics, Development Economics, Urban Economics, Economic History, Environmental Economics, and Agricultural Economics. He has studied, among other topics: the welfare and inequality effects of market integration, the impact of improvements in transportation infrastructure, how trade can mitigate and exacerbate the effects of climate change, and how economists can quantify market failures and the interventions (such as industrial policy) that attempt to fix them. He was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal, as well as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Dave Donaldson will present a paper, joint with Rodrigo Adão and Arnaud Costinot, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:
Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to Trump’s Trade War (read paper)
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Date: MONDAY, April 29th - 2.45 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next Departmental Seminar will host Camille LANDAIS (LSE) on May 13th.
Friday Seminar - Apr 26th
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Oda NEDREGÅRD is a Postdoctoral Fellow, funded by the Bruno Latour Fund programme whose aim is to bring to Sciences Po young scientists from humanities and different social sciences who are working on the cutting edge of the most fundamental aspects of political ecology research to reflect on the consequences of ecological change. Oda will be with us for 3 years, studying the causal effect of trust in government on green policymaking.
She holds a PhD in Economics from BI Norwegian Business School.
Her research areas include Political Economy, Natural Language Processing, and Environmental Economics.
Oda Nedregård will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
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Julia CAGÉ is Full Professor of Economics at the Department. She is also the Co-director of LIEPP's "Evaluation of Democracy" research group. She is a Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and heads up CEPR's Research Policy Network on Media Plurality.
Her research focuses on political economy, industrial organization and economic history. She is particularly interested in media economics, political participation and political attitudes.
She was awarded an European Research Council Starting Grant for her 5-year project Campaign Finance, Information and Influence: A ComprehensIve Approach Using Individual-Level Data and Computer Science Tools (PARTICIPATE) and more recently substantial Project Liberty's Institute (McCourt Institute) grants in order to explore issues related to (dis)information in the digital age.
In 2023, she was Laureate of the Best Young French Economist Award.
Julia Cagé will also present a paper, joint with Moritz Hengel and and Yuchen Huang, at our next Friday Seminar on the topic:
The Far-Right Donation Gap (read abstract, PDF 62.94 KB)
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Date: FRIDAY, April 26th - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next Friday Seminar will host Olivia TSOUTSOPLIDI (PhD Sciences Po) & Sophia PRAETORIUS (PhD Sciences Po) on May 3rd.
PEPES Seminar *via ZOOM* - Apr 25th
Voters from different walks of life placing their ballots
*Due to an air-controller strike, our PEPES guest speaker cannot be present with us in Paris - join us on Zoom, same time (zoom link sent to you by email) !*
Marta REYNAL-QUEROL is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) Research Professor. She is the Director of the BSE Master's Program in Economics. She is also Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and member of the Council of the European Economic Association (EEA). Among her editorial duties, she is Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the European Journal of Political Economy. She worked for the World Bank between 2001 and 2005.
Her research focuses on the causes of civil wars and genocides, conflict resolution and the aftermath of conflict; leaders and institutional reforms; aid effectiveness, and the economics of institutions. She publishes regularly in the most prestigious international journals, both general and specialised. After receiving a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant in 2008 and an ERC Consolidator grant in 2014, she was awarded an ERC Advanced grant in 2021 for her project Colonization, Early Institutions and the Origin of State Capacity and Democratization. In 2022 she was the recipient of the Rei Jaume I Prize in Economics for her contributions to the determinants of war conflicts, political economy and economic development using methodologies based on historical experiences and “big data”.
Marta Reynal-Querol will present a paper, joint with Tim Besley, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:
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Date: THURSDAY, April 25th - 12.30 pm
*EXCEPTIONAL* Location: Zoom (link sent to you via email)
The next PEPES Seminar will host Aurélie OUSS (Visiting faculty, on leave from UPenn) on June 6th.
