Friday Seminar - Nov 24th
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Jeanne COMMAULT is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department since 2018. Before joining Sciences Po, Jeanne Commault was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and Research Associate at the University College London (UCL) in 2017. Last year, she was a visiting faculty member at Princeton in the Fall, and during the Winter/Spring semester she was selected to the Visiting Scholar Programme of the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) and to the Atlanta Fed Early-Career Visitor programme.
Her research lies in the fields of macroeconomics and applied microeconomics with a special focus on household consumption and saving behaviour.
Jeanne Commault will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Earnings Risks and the Concavity of Consumption in Permanent Earnings (abstract to follow)
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Clément IMBERT joined the Department this year as Full Professor from the University of Warwick where he was a faculty member since 2015. Prior to that he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics and at Nuffield College (Oxford) for three years. He is a Full Member of the European Development Network (EUDN) and a Research Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and at the Abdul Latif Jameel – Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
His research interests span development, environment, labour, public economics, and political economy. His current research is on labour market programs, internal migration, and environmental issues in developing countries.
Clément Imbert will also present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Structural Transformation and Deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa (abstract to follow)
More about Clément IMBERT and his research
Date: FRIDAY, November 24th - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
The next Friday Seminar will host Clément DE CHAISEMARTIN (Sciences Po) & Georgia THÉBAULT (Postdoc Sciences Po) on December 1st.
PEPES Seminar - Nov 23rd
Voters from different walks of life placing votes in ballot box
Saumitra JHA is Associate Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School for Business and is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). He is also affiliated as an Associate Professor of Political Science and of Economics at the School of Humanities and Sciences, and as a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Among his editorial activities, he serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Business and Politics and of the Political Economy section of Global Perspectives.
Saumitra Jha’s research focuses upon understanding the effectiveness of organisations and innovations that societies have developed to address the problems of violence and other political risks, and to seek new lessons for fostering peace and development. His research has been published in leading journals in economics and political science, including Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Political.
Saumitra Jha will present a paper, joint with Peter Koudijs and Marcos Salgado, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:
Markets under Siege: How Political Beliefs Move Financial Markets (read abstract, PDF 29.64 KB)
More about Saumitra JHA and his research
Date: THURSDAY, November 23rd - 12.30 pm
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R2-21
The next PEPES Seminar will host Ro'ee LEVY (Eitan Berglas School of Economics) on December 7th.
Banque de France Research Seminar - Nov 22nd
Banque de France and Sciences Po pediments on buildings
For our third Banque de France/Sciences Po Research Seminar "Banks and the Financial System: what regulation?" of the academic year, we are pleased to host James McANDREWS (CEO and Chairman of the Board, TNB USA Inc. and former Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York) on the theme:
What Lessons Should We Draw from the US Bank Crisis of 2023?
Jean-Pierre LANDAU (Associated Professor, Sciences Po and former Deputy Governor of the Banque de France) will also give his views on the subject.
Banque de France / Sciences Po Research Seminars discuss issues on banking, financial systems and financial regulation. The objective is to confront the approaches and ideas of academics and practitioners.
If you would like to attend, please contact Stéphanie BERREBI by email.
Seminars are organised by Vivien Levy-Garboua (Affiliated & Associate Faculty member), Denis Beau (Sous-Gouverneur, Banque de France), Stéphane GUIBAUD (Professor at Sciences Po).
Date: Wednesday, November 22nd - 5 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
2023 Paris-London PE Conference
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The Paris-London Public Economics Conference is an annual, two-day conference organised by faculty at the Department, the London School of Economics (LSE), University College London (UCL), the Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP, a PSE-CREST partnership), the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
The programme features research on a wide range of topics in public economics, such as policy evaluation, healthcare, taxation, discrimination, and redistribution.
*UPDATED* Download the complete programme (PDF, 184.33 KB)
When ? THURSDAY and FRIDAY, December 7th & 8th, 2023.
Where ?
- on Thursday, December 7th: at Sciences Po's Department of Economics, Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
- on Friday, December 8th: at the Banque de France, Conference Room
Please note that the second day of our programme is part of the CEPR's Annual Paris Symposium.
Download our welcome leaflet for venue information (PDF 1.83 MB)
Paris Trade Seminar - Nov 21st
Containers on a ship out at sea
Lin TIAN is Assistant Professor of Economics at INSEAD since 2018. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Among her editorial duties she is Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics. Prior to graduate school, she worked as an urban planner at the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore.
Her research interests include international trade, economic geography, urban economics and public finance. Her current research focuses on studying the factors that contribute to the uneven distribution of economic activities across space. In addition, she also studies trade tax in developing countries. In her research, she combines applied theories with well-identified empirical analyses that carefully separate the hypothesized mechanism from confounding factors.
Lin Tian will present a paper, joint with Valerie Smeets and Sharon Traiberman, at the next Paris Trade Seminar on the topic:
Field of Study, Career Choice, and Globalization (read abstract, PDF 28.8 KB)
More about Lin TIAN and her research
Date: TUESDAY, November 21st - 2.45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
The next Paris Trade Seminar will host Banu DEMIR PAKEL (Oxford) on December 5th.
