Jeanne HAGENBACH is awarded an ERC "Starting" Grant
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September 3rd, the European Research Council (ERC) officially published the list of projects it has retained for its 2019 “Starting Grants” Call.
As a reminder, Starting Grants are awarded to early-career researchers of any nationality with two to seven years of experience since completion of the PhD (or equivalent degree) and a scientific track record showing great promise.
Only 13% of submitted proposals were successful for this year’s round.
The project “Motivated Reading of Evidence” (MOREV) submitted by the Department faculty member Jeanne HAGENBACH, CNRS Researcher and Professor of Economics, is one of the 41 projects selected for France.
It is the 13th time that one of the Department’s faculty members has been awarded an ERC grant in less than 10 years and the latest of an already impressive list of distinctions for Jeanne HAGENBACH. In 2009 she was awarded two prizes for her doctoral dissertation «Communication stratégique et réseaux »: the Richelieu Thesis Prize of the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris and the Thesis Prize of the French Economic Association. In 2012 the Fondation Banque de France awarded Professor HAGENBACH the Young Researcher in Economics Prize. Last, but not least, she was distinguished by the CNRS which awarded her the Bronze Medal in 2016 (consult the announcement on the CNRS' page).
Jeanne HAGENBACH’s work within the field of microeconomics draws on game theory and experimental economics. Unabashedly theoretical, Professor HAGENBACH’s research revolves around models of communication in game theory. Her objective? To understand in which strategic situations information held by economic agents is passed on the most effectively.
The MOREV project is perfectly aligned with this research: Jeanne HAGENBACH wishes to study how individuals interpret hard information in ways that serve their own purposes. She seeks to identify the goals that nudge the reading of evidence in systematic ways. She also wants to study how agents manage to distort this reading, for example by choosing not to read or reason about available evidence.
Read more about the MOREV project
Consult the ERC’s press release
Prior to joining the Department in 2018, Jeanne HAGENBACH was doing research at the Department of economics of École Polytechnique and a post-doctoral student at the University of Mannheim.
The Department continues to grow
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We extend the warmest welcome to Michele FIORETTI, Junnan HE, Kerstin HOLZHEU, and Marleen MARRA.
Michele FIORETTI comes to the Department from the University of Southern California (USC) where he defended his thesis this past year. Prior to his PhD, Michele FIORETTI acquired a MPA in Political Economy at the LSE and then a MA in Economics at USC.
His work focuses particularly on the economic dynamics in sectors with a social dimension, such as the health sector or the energy sector.
His primary research areas are:
- Empirical Industrial Organisation
- Behavioural Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
His research and scholarship have already received a number of awards and fellowships and notably the Award for the Best Applied Economics Paper by a Young Researcher at the 2018 Econometric Society Summer European Meeting (EEA-ESEM Cologne).
More about Michele FIORETTI and his research
As of September 1st, Michele FIORETTI is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.
Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 - Office J 404
Junnan HE comes to the Department from the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) where he defended his thesis this past year. He holds a BSc in Mathematical Economics and Mathematics from the Australian National University and a MA in Economics from WUSTL.
He works on model sparsity and variable selection as well as stochastic choice models.
His primary research areas are :
- Econometrics
- Decision Theory
His research has already been honoured with awards and fellowships, and notably his dissertation which warranted him a Dissertation Fellowship from WUSTL in 2017 and the Best PhD SPEED Presentation at the 20th OxMetrics User Conference in 2018.
More about Junnan HE and his research
As of September 1st, Junnan HE is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.
Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office J 408
Kerstin HOLZHEU comes to the Department after spending a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She is also an IZA Fellow. She defended her PhD in 2018 at the University of Chicago. She holds a MA & BA in Empirical Social Sciences and a MA in Applied Economics from the University of Stuttgard and Sciences Po Bordeaux (French-German Double Diploma in Social Sciences). And just prior to joining the University of Chicago she undertook a MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (GSE).
Her work deals with labour economics and business economics from the standpoint of applied macroeconomics. In particular, she is interested in the question of workforce allocation.
Her primary research areas are :
- Applied Macroeconomics
- Labour Economics
- Firm Dynamics
Her research and scholarship have already warranted her a number of awards and fellowships. She notably received the 2017 University of Chicago Data Award, a Schultz Endowment in 2016 and a CSWEP Fellowhip at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
More about Kerstin HOLZHEU and her research
As of September 1st, Kerstin HOLZHEU is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.
Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office C 405 A
Marleen MARRA comes to the Department from University College London (UCL) where she defended her thesis this past year. Prior to her PhD she undertook a MSc at Tilburg University and a MRes in Economics (with Distinction) at UCL. In 2016 she was selected for the Yale-UCL Collaborative Exchange Program and was a Visiting PhD student at Yale. And in 2018 she was a CeMMAP Scholar at the IFS.
Her research focuses on the structural analysis of auctions to learn about strategic behavior of firms and individuals in auction markets, with the aim to inform public policy.
Her primary research areas are:
- Empirical Industrial Organisation
- Structural Econometrics
- Applied Microeconomics
Her work has already received recognition: she was awarded a number of scholarships throughout her doctoral studies as well as for her overseas institutional visit at Yale.
More about Marleen MARRA and her research
As of September 1st, Marleen MARRA is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.
Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office J 401
Friday Seminar - Sep 20th
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Charles LOUIS-SIDOIS is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universität Mannheim. He defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "Trois essais en économie politique", supervised by Emeric HENRY, in July 2018. In 2016-2017, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton University.
His current research projects focus on vote buying and media bias.
Charles LOUIS-SIDOIS will present a paper, joint with Leon MUSOLFF, at the next Friday Seminar on the theme:
Collusion-Proof Vote Buying (read paper, PDF 660,95 KB)
More about Charles LOUIS-SIDOIS and his research
The next Friday Seminar will host Florin CUCU on September 27th.
Date: Fri, 2019/09/20 - 12:30 - 14:00
Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères - ROOM H 405
PEPES Seminar - Sep 19th
Map of the first Great Migration 1910-1940 in the US
Marco E. TABELLINI is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Harvard Business School, in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit (BGIE). Prior to joining HBS as faculty member, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the same Unit. Prior to joining HBS he was at MIT where he successfully defended his doctoral disseration in 2018.
His areas of research include economic history, economic institutions and political economy as well as international trade. His current research for which he has been endowed focuses on political and economic effects of immigration. He was notably awarded a UPS Endowment Fund at Stanford University for “Immigrant Group Size and Immigrant Assimilation” and a research grant for "From Immigrants to Americans: Race, Status, and Assimilation During the Great Migration. In 2018 he won the European Economic Association Young Economist Award for the paper "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility" with Michela Caralana.
Marco E. TABELLINI will present a paper, joint with Vasiliki FOUKA and Soumyajit MAZUMDER, at the first PEPES Seminar of the year on the theme:
More about Marco E. TABELLINI and his research
The next PEPES Seminar will host James SNYDER on September 26th.
Date: Thu, 2019/09/19 - 12:30 - 14:00
Location: PSE, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - ROOM R2-01
Departmental Seminar - Sep 16th
Farmers in China use drones
Kjetil STORESLETTEN is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo. He is also a Member of the Norges Bank Executive Board and the Executive Monetary Policy Committee. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters as well as the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters, member of the Academia Europaea, and Research Fellow at the European Economic Association and the CEPR. As of this year he is the President of the European Economic Association and is the Co-Editor of Quantitative Economics.
His main research interests lie in quantitative macroeconomics, political economy, labor economics, risk sharing, asset pricing, and immigration. He has published in numerous refereed journals and was awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant.
Kjetil STORESLETTEN will present a paper, joint with Bo ZHAO and Fabrizio ZILIBOTTI, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:
More about Kjetil STORESLETTEN and his research
The next Departmental Seminar will host Jonathan HEATHCOTE on September 23rd.
Date: Mon, 2019/09/16 - 14:45 - 16:15
Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères - ROOM H 405
