Roy-ADRES Seminar - September 26th
Portrait of René Roy and stylised equations
Jörgen WEIBULL is A.O. Wallenberg Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) since 1995. He is also an Associate Faculty Member at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) since 2013.
Professor emeritus at SSE and Honorary doctor at the Swedish School of Economics (in Helsinki), Jörgen Weibull has been awarded a number of honours over the years. He is notably Fellow of the European Economic Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was the recipient of the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Prize in Economic Science.
His main research area is economic theory and game theory, both pure theory and applications. The applications span a wide range of topics including political economy, industrial economics, information economics, behavioural economics, evolutionary theory, and some experimental game theory.
Jörgen WEIBULL will present a paper at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the theme:
A Framework for Spatial Political Analysis (read abstract, PDF 28.53 KB)
More about Jörgen WEIBULL and his research
Date: MONDAY, September 26th - 5 PM
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R1-09
The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Peter BUISSERET (Harvard) on October 3rd.
Departmental Seminar - Sept 26th
Stylised calendar data
Shengwu LI is Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard since 2018. Among his editorial duties, he is the Associate Editor of Theoretical Economics .
He is specialised in economic theory and behavioural economics. In particular, he is interested in designing economic systems, in the presence of computational complexity, but that are nonetheless simple and transparent for human beings. His work has been awarded a number of prizes: the 2018 Exeter Prize for Research in Experimental Economics, Decision Theory and Behavioral Economics, the 2018 Best Paper in Economics and Computation by the ACM Special Interest Group on e-Commerce, and the Aliprantis Prize in 2017 by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.
Shengwu LI will present a paper, joint with Mohammad Akbarpour, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Michael Li, and Paul Milgromk, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:
Investment Incentives in Truthful Approximation Mechanisms (read paper)
More about Shengwu LI and his research
Date: MONDAY, September 26th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
The next Departmental Seminar will host Rafael DIX-CARNEIRO (Duke University) on October 3rd.
Friday Seminar - Sept 23rd
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Edgard DEWITTE is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Essays on the Economics of Democracy, under the supervision of Julia CAGÉ. He is also affiliated to Sciences Po's LIEPP. Since 2020, he is a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard's Department of Economics.
He will be going onto the international job market this year.
His research explores issues at the crossroad of political economy and economic history, with insights from behavioural and environmental economics.
Edgard DEWITTE will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the theme:
The Historical Roots of Climate Change Denial (read abstract, PDF 56 KB)
More about Edgard DEWITTE and his research
Date: FRIDAY, September 23rd - 12:30 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
Our next Friday Seminar will host Jean-Marc ROBIN (Sciences Po) on September 30th.
Banque de France Research Seminar - Sept 21st
Banque de France and Sciences Po pediments on buildings
For our first Banque de France/Sciences Po Research Seminar "Banks and the Financial System: what regulation?" of the academic year, we are pleased to host Eric MONNET (Full Professor, PSE and EHESS) on the theme:
The Future of Central Bank Governance
Pervenche Berès (Chairwoman, Europe-Finance-Regulation Association) will give her point of 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 Maria OHLUND 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, September 21st - 5 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
The next sessions of the Banque de France Research Seminar will host:
- October 19th: Antoine MARTIN (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) on the topic of CBDC.
- November 16th: Quentin VANDEWEYER (Chicago Booth School of Business) on the topic of stablecoins.
Paris Trade Seminar - Sept 20th
Containers on a ship out at sea
Yuhei MIYAUCHI is Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University since 2019. Prior to joining Boston University, he was a Research Scholar at the Asia - Pacific Research Institute of Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
His main fields are in Trade, Urban, Development, and Networks Economics. His primary research theme is to understand how production and demand linkages shape socio-economic activity within cities and across regions and countries. He tackles these questions using a combination of theory and new sources of granular data, such as cell phone, smartphone transaction data and firm-level transaction data.
Yuhei MIYAUCHI will present a paper, joint with Costas Arkolakis and Federico Huneeus, at the next Paris Trade Seminar on the theme:
Spatial Production Networks (read paper)
More about Yuhei MIYAUCHI and his research
Date: TUESDAY, September 20th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
The next Paris Trade Seminar will host Isabela MANELICI (LSE) on October 4th.
