PEPES Seminar - Oct 13th
Voters from all walks of life putting their ballots in the box
Elias PAPAIOANNOU is Professor of Economics at the London Business School (LBS) and academic co-director of the LBS Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. He is also Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Amonh his editorial duties, he is Member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies, an Associat Editor at Econometrica, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Comparative Economics, and Panel Member of Economic Policy.
His research fields cover international finance, political economy, law and finance, and growth and development. He has been published in leading peer-refereed journals and his work has also appeared in edited book volumes. His research has also been awarded a number of important grants, including an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2018.
Elias PAPAIOANNOU will present a paper, joint with Giorgio CHIOVELLI, Stelios MICHALOPOULOS, and Sandra SEQUEIRA, at the next PEPES Seminar on the theme:
Forced Displacement and Human Capital (read abstract, PDF 29.57 KB)
More about Elias PAPAIOANNOU and his research
Date: THURSDAY, October 13th - 12:30 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
The next PEPES Seminar will host Monica MARTINEZ-BRAVO (CEMFI) on October 20th.
Empirical IO Seminar - Oct. 11th
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Liyang SUN is Assistant Professor at CEMFI since July 2022. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley). She was awarded a Ph.D in Economics and Statistics from the Massuchessetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2021.
Her primary research interests are in Econometrics and Public Economics. Her scholarship was awarded by an MIT Department of Economics Jerry A. Hausman Graduate Dissertation Fellowship in 2019-2020 and her teaching skills at MIT School of Humanities, received an Arts and Social Sciences Levitan Teaching Award in 2019.
Liyang SUN will present a paper at the next Empirical IO Seminar on the theme:
Empirical Welfare Maximization with Constraints (read paper)
More about Liyang SUN and her research
Date: TUESDAY, October 11th - 3:15 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
The next Empirical IO Seminar will host Dmitry ARKHANGELSKY (CEMFI) on November 8th.
Roy-ADRES Seminar - Oct 10th
Portrait of René Roy and stylised equations
Kevin HE is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania since 2020. He spent a year as a Linde Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) after receiving his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2019.
He studies microeconomic theory and behavioural economics. Although he has just started his academic career, Kevin HE's research has already been awarded a 5-year National Sciences Foundation (NSF) grant for his project (joint with Krishna Dasaratha) Learning, Behavior, and Design in Diffusion Processes. He has also received a number of awards: Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award at ACM EC’21, a PIMCO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Science at Caltech in 2019, and two Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center at Harvard University.
Kevin HE will present a paper, joint with Krishna Dasaratha, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the theme:
Learning from Viral Content (read abstract, PDF 25.36 KB)
More about Kevin HE and his research
Date: MONDAY, October 10th - 5 PM
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R1-09
The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Jan KNOEPFLE (Queen Mary University of London - QMUL) on October 17th.
Departmental Seminar - Oct 10th
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Sara HELLER is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research. She is also a University of Michigan Poverty Solutions faculty expert, a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Faculty Fellow at the Penn Institute for Urban Research, an Affiliate of J-PAL North America, and a Research Affiliate of the University of Chicago Crime Lab/Urban Education Lab.
She studies interventions to reduce crime and improve other life outcomes among young people. She uses large-scale experiments to isolate the causal effects of a variety of programs, including cognitive behavioral therapy-based interventions and summer jobs. Her work has received numerous grants and she publishes regularly in top-knotch international and specialised journals.
Sara HELLER will present a paper, joint with Monica Bhatt, Max Kapustin, Marianne Bertrand, and Chris Blattman, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:
More about Sara HELLER and her research
Date: MONDAY, October 10th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
The next Departmental Seminar will host Kevin O'ROURKE (NYU Abu Dhabi) on October 17th.
Friday Seminar - Oct 7th
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Victor AUGIAS is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Essays in Information and Behavioral Economics, under the supervision of Jeanne HAGENBACH. He will be going on to the international job market this year.
His research interests lie in applied microeconomic theory and his work focuses on information design, mechanism design and behavioural economics.
Victor AUGIAS will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the theme:
Optimal Test Design: Investment Incentives and Discrimination (read abstract, PDF 31.97 KB)
More about Victor AUGIAS and his research
Date: FRIDAY, October 7th - 12:30 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
The next Friday Seminar will host Daniel MARTINS DE ALMEIDA BARRETO (Sciences Po) on October 11th.
