*CANCELLED* Departmental Seminar - Mar 4th
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Rachel GRIFFITH is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). She is Program Chair of the 2025 World Econometric Society Congress to be held in Seoul Korea. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association. Among her editorial duties, she is an Editor of the Journal of Political Economy and an Associate Editor of Econometrica.
Her research, published widely in the top international journals, broadly considers issues related to the impacts of government policy on consumers, firms and the functioning of markets. Her specific interests relate to empirical work at the intersection of public economics and industrial organisation and in particular the retail food sector and nutrition. She was awarded two ERC Advanced Grants to study the behaviour of consumers and firms and the impact of government policy in food markets. She has also published widely on innovation, productivity and corporate tax, and she is one of the Principle Investigators on the Economic and Social Research Council's Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS.
Rachel Griffith, joint with Rossi Abi-Rafeh, Pierre Dubois, and Martin O'Connell, will present a paper at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:
More about Rachel GRIFFITH and her research
Date: MONDAY, March 4th - 2.45 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next Departmental Seminar will host Michèle TERTILT (University of Mannheim) on March 18th.
Banque de France Research Seminar - Feb 28th
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For our first Banque de France/Sciences Po Research Seminar of 2024 "Banks and the Financial System: what regulation?", we are pleased to host Carlo GALLI (Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid) on the theme:
Quantitative Easing with Fiscal-Monetary Interactions
Benoît NGUYEN (Senior Expert Research Economist, Monetary and Financial Analysis Directorate at the Banque de France, former Lead Economist at the ECB) 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, February 28th - 5 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next sessions of our Banque de France Research Seminar will host:
- March 20, with Nathalie Aufauvre (Banque de France, Secretary General ACPR)
- April 17, with Olivier Wang (NYU Stern).
Paris Trade Seminar - Feb 27th
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Swati DHINGRA is currently on leave of Public Service at the Bank of England where she is an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee from 2022 to 2025. She is Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Among her editorial duties she is the Elected Director of the Review of Economic Studies. She is an Elected Member of Council of the Royal Economic Society.
Her research interests are international economics, globalization and industrial policy. Her current areas of research include the impact of trade agreements, firms in international trade, and industrial development in India. She was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2017 for her project Market Power and Firm Growth in the Global Economy (BIGlobal).
Swati Dhingra will present a paper, joint with Fjolla Kondirolli and Stephen Machin, at the next Paris Trade Seminar on the topic:
Citizen Training and the Urban Waste Footprint (read abstract, PDF 29.46 KB)
More about Swati DHINGRA and her research
Date: TUESDAY, February 27th - 2.30 pm
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R2-01
The next Paris Trade Seminar will host Ferdinand RAUCH (Heidelberg) on March 12th.
Departmental Seminar - Feb 26th
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Jonathan HEATHCOTE is currently visiting with us for a month, on leave from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis where he is a Monetary Advisor in the Research Department. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Among his editorial duties, he is Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics.
His research interests are in the fields of macroeconomics and international macroeconomics with a particular focus on income and wealth inequality. His work has appeared in several prestigious publications, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Jonathan Heathcote will present a paper, joint with Zhifeng Cai, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:
The Great Resignation and Optimal Unemployment Insurance (read paper)
More about Jonathan HEATHCOTE and his research
Date: MONDAY, February 26th - 2:45 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next Departmental Seminar will host Rachel GRIFFITH (University of Manchester) on March 4th.
Christophe GAILLAC (Oxford)
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Christophe GAILLAC is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. He is also an affiliated researcher at CREST. He holds a PhD in Economics (2021) from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
He will present a paper on the topic:
Predicting Unobserved Individual-level Causal Effects (read paper)
Research fields:
Econometrics (primary)
Statistics, Labour Economics, Machine learning (secondary)
More about Christophe GAILLAC and his research
Date: MONDAY, February 12th - 2.45 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
