Roy-ADRES Seminar - March 18th
Portrait of René Roy and stylised equations
Pietro ORTOLEVA is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Among his editorial duties, he is is currently a co-editor of the American Economic Review. Prior to joining Princeton, he taught at the California Institute of Technology and at Columbia University.
His research focuses on economic theory, behavioural and experimental economics, and political economy. His recent work studies the relation between time and risk preferences; preferences for randomization; misspecified models in complex environments; models of reference-dependence; mechanism design; and large-scale incentivized surveys with a focus on the correlation between behavioral aspects. His work has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation over the years. He was the recipient of the Social Choice and Welfare Prize in 2020 and gave the Jaffray Lecture at the Risk, Uncertainty and Decision (RUD) Meeting in 2013.
Pietro Ortoleva will present a paper, joint with Can Urgun, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the topic:
When to Decide: Timing of Choice in Parallel Search
More about Pietro ORTOLEVA and his research
Date: MONDAY, March 18th - 5 pm
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R1-09
The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Krittanai LAOHAKUNAKORN (Univeristy of Surrey) on March 25th.
Departmental Seminar - Mar 18th
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Michèle TERTILT is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. She is also a Director of the Review of Economic Studies and a Research Professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), of the European Development Research Network (EUDN), of CESifo, and of IZA.
Her research concentrates on macroeconomics with a special focus on development and intra-family interactions. To study these issues, she combines complex economic equilibrium models with empirical and economic-historical investigations. Her research has been published in many highly ranked journals, and has been financed through multiple research grants, including an European Research Council grant, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and multiple National Science Foundation grants. For her work, she has received the Gossenpreis (2013), the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2017) and most recently the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award (2019).
Michèle Tertilt will present a paper, joint with Matthias Doepke, Hanno Foerster, and Anne Hannusch, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:
The Political Economy of Laws to "Protect" Women (read abstract, PDF 43.44 KB)
More about Michèle TERTILT and her research
Date: MONDAY, March 18th - 2.45 pm
*UPDATED* Location: Department of Economics - Room H 101
The next Departmental Seminar will be exceptionally joint with our Applied Microeconomics Seminar and will host Barbara BIASI (Yale School of Management) on April 22nd.
Friday Seminar - Mar 15th
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Raphaël LEVY is visiting with us this semester, on leave from the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC Paris) where he is Associate Professor. He is also a Louis Bachelier Fellow since 2022. Prior to joining HEC Paris he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and, before that, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
His research is in information economics, with applications to industrial organisation, corporate finance, political economy and behavioural economics. His most recent research papers were published in Management Science, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and the Journal of Labor Economics.
Raphaël Levy will present a paper, joint with Heski Bar Isaac, at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Adverse Selection, Training, and Monopsony Power (read abstract, PDF 59.14 KB)
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Antoine JACQUET is a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Alfred Galichon on his ERC CoG project Equilibrium Methods for Resource Allocations and Dynamic Pricing (EQUIPRICE). He holds a PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
He is an applied microeconomist with interests at the intersection of labour and demographic economics and cultural economics.
Antoine Jacquet will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Culture, Human Capital, and Marital Homogamy in France (read paper)
More about Antoine JACQUET and his research
Date: FRIDAY, March 15th - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next Friday Seminar will host Johannes BOEHM (Sciences Po) & Martin MUGNIER (Postdoc, Oxford) on March 22nd.
Paris Trade Seminar - Mar 12th
Containers on a ship out at sea
Ferdinand RAUCH is Professor at the Alfred Weber Institute of Economics at the University of Heidelberg, where he is equally the Chair of Labour Economics. He is Member of the Verein für Socialpolitik, a Kiel Fellow for Studies on International Trade, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Member of the CESifo Research Network. Prior to joining the Alfred Weber Institute, he was Professor at the University of Oxford.
His current areas of research include economic history, urban economics, economic geography, trade, and labour economics. His work has received a number of distinctions - he notably gave the 2018 Keynote Lecture at the 16th Conference on Globalisation and Economic Policy and was the recipient of the 2018 Kiel Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs.
Ferdinand Rauch will present a paper, joint with Richard Hornbeck, and Guy Michaels, at the next Paris Trade Seminar on the topic:
More about Ferdinand RAUCH and his research
Date: TUESDAY, March 12th - 2.30 pm
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R2-01
The next Paris Trade Seminar will host Paola CONCONI (Oxford) on March 26th.
New faculty to watch for next Fall
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The Department is thrilled to announce that two very fine researchers will be joining our faculty in September 2024: welcome Axelle Ferrière and Kevin O'Rourke!
Axelle Ferrière will be joining us from the Paris School of Economics (PSE) where she is currently a Chaired Professor Axelle and a CNRS Research Fellow. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Following her PhD at New York University in 2015, she continued her research at the European University Institute until 2018 when she joined the PSE.
Her research primarily focuses on fiscal policy and redistribution, through the lens of heterogeneous-agent models. She is also interested in the quantitative effects of uncertainty. Her work has been published in journals such as Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics and Journal of Monetary Economics.
More about Axelle FERRIÈRE and her research
Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke is currently Professor of Economics at New York University at Abu Dhabi. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a former Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER). Among his present editorial duties he is Senior Editor of Economic Policy, an International Advisory Board member of the Scandinavian Economic History Review, a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied History and a Member of the Advisory Board of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics.
Prior to joining NYU Abu Dhabi, he was the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College.
His research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics. He has published extensively on the history of globalization and deglobalization: his books include the prize-winning Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey Williamson), and Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (co-authored with Ronald Findlay). He was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2009 to study interwar trade and trade policy. His most recent book is Une Histoire Brève du Brexit (Odile Jacob, 2018), published in English as A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop (Penguin, 2019).
