Departmental Seminar - Mar 6th
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Volker NOCKE is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, and holds the Chair in Microeconomics. He is a Vice Chancellor's Fellow (part-time) at the University of Surrey. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the European Economics Association. He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research Industrial Economics (EARIE). Among his editorial activities, he is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.
He has broad research interests within the fields of Industrial Organisation and International Trade. Much of his recent work has been concerned with horizontal and vertical mergers, both in an IO and trade context, and with antitrust policy. He regularly publishes in leading academic journals. Since 2022, he is the Project Leader and Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB-TR224, focused on economic perspectives on societal challenges (equality of opportunity, market regulation, and financial stability) and supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Volker NOCKE will present a paper at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:
Consumer Search and Choice Overload (paper to follow)
More about Volker NOCKE and his research
Date: MONDAY, March 6th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi
The next Departmental Seminar will host Andrei LEVCHENKO (University of Michigan) on March 13th.
Departmental Seminar - Mar 6th
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Empirical IO - Feb 21st
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Alice MESNARD is a Reader in Economics at City University of London and the Chair of the Academic Board of the University of Paris Dauphine -PSL (London). Prior to joining City, she was a Senior Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies where she worked at the Center for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EdePo).
Her main research interests are in the fields of development economics, migration, policy evaluations and applied microeconomics. Her research has been mainly devoted to understanding the role of public policies in improving human development in relation to migration, education (Conditional Cash Transfer programme "Familias en Acción" in Colombia), health (maternal health and nutrition programmes in Malawi, Health Insurance in Nigeria, Quarantine measures after the outbreak of infectious diseases such as Ebola) and labour market (New Deal programmes in the UK).
Alice MESNARD will present a paper, joint with Emmanuelle AUROL and Tiffanie PERRAULT, at the next Empirical IO Seminar on the theme:
Temporary Foreign Work Permits: Honing the Tools to Defeat Human Smuggling
More about Alice MESNARD and her research
Date: TUESDAY, February 21st - 3:15 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle JP Fitoussi
The next Empirical IO Seminar will host Cailin SLATTERY (UC Berkeley Haas) on March 7th.
Departmental Seminar - Feb 20th
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Steven DURLAUF is the Steans Professor in Educational Policy at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory as well as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). In 2011, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is co-director of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, an international research network linking scholars across disciplines in the study of inequality and the sources of human flourishing and destitution. Among his editorial duties, he is the current Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature.
His research spans many topics in microeconomics and macroeconomics. His most important substantive contributions involve the areas of poverty, inequality and economic growth. Much of his research has attempted to integrate sociological ideas into economic analysis. His major methodological contributions include both economic theory and econometrics. He helped pioneer the application of statistical mechanics techniques to the modelling of socioeconomic behaviour and has also developed identification analyses for the empirical analogs of these models. Other research has focused on techniques for policy evaluation and the econometrics of cross country income differences.
Steven DURLAUF will present a paper, joint with Yoosoon CHANG, Seunghee LEE, and Joon PARK, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:
A Trajectories-Based Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility (read paper, PDF 694.01 KB)
More about Steven DURLAUF and his research
Date: MONDAY, February 20th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle JP Fitoussi
The next Departmental Seminar wil host Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim) on March 6th.
Banque de France Research Seminar - Feb 15th
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*This seminar will exceptionally take place at 12:30 PM, via Zoom*
For our next Banque de France/Sciences Po Research Seminar "Banks and the Financial System: what regulation?" of the academic year, we are pleased to host Keyu JIN (Associate Professor, London School of Economics) on the theme:
China: A Reality Check - Present Challenges and Future Opportunities
Martino RICCI (Senior Economist, European Central Bank) will give his view 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 Sandrine LEGOFF 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 15th - *12:30 PM*
Location: Zoom
*Only registered participants will receive the Zoom link via email
The next sessions of the Banque de France Research Seminar will be held:
- March 15th, 2023, with Irène MONASTEROLO (EDHEC)
