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).
Roy-ADRES Seminar - Mar 11th
Portrait of René Roy and stylised equations
Henrique CASTRO-PIRES is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey. He joined the University of Surrey's School of Economics in 2022, just after Northwestern awarded his PhD in Economics.
He is an applied microeconomic theorist working on organisational economics and contract theory. In 2023 he was awarded the Best Economic Theory by SEB.
Henrique Pires-Castro will present a paper, joint with Rodrigo Andrade and Humberto Moreira, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the topic:
The Effect of Exit Rights on Cost-based Procurement Contracts (read abstract, PDF 56.9 KB)
More about Henrique CASTRO-PIRES and his research
Date: MONDAY, March 11th - 5 pm
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R1-09
The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Pietro ORTOLEVA (Princeton) on March 18th.
Econometrics Seminar - Mar 11th
Two cogs fitting together on which public policy is written
Konrad MENZEL is Associate Professor of Economics at New York University (NYU). He holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among his editorial activities, he is Associate Editor for the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, the Journal of Econometrics, and The Econometrics Journal.
His research focuses on econometric theory and applied econometrics. His work is regularly published in the top international, peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of Statistics, the Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, and Quantitative Economics. He has also been the recipient of important NSF grants.
Konrad MENZEL will present a paper at the next Econometrics Seminar CREST-PSE to be organised at Sciences Po, on the topic:
Transfer Estimates for Causal Effects across Heterogeneous Sites (read paper)
More about Konrad MENZEL and his research
Date: MONDAY, March 11th - 4:15 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next Econometrics Seminar will host Frank WINDMEIJER (Oxford University) on March 18th, at CREST.
Sciences Po's Department of Economics looks forward to hosting again two sessions in early summer:
May 27th, as a joint Departmental Seminar - Francesca MOLINARI (Cornell University)
June 17th - Ashesh RAMBACHAN (MIT)
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Friday Seminar - Mar 8th
Paper in a typewriter on which it is written "New Research"
Nourhan HASHISH is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Legal Origins, Post-Colonial Institutions and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa under the supervision of Sergei GURIEV.
Nourhan Hashish will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Drought Declarations and Voting Outcomes (read abstract, PDF 90.5 KB)
Laure GOURSAT is a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Eduardo Perez-Richet on his ERC CoG project Information and Misinformation Economics: Design, Manipulations, and Countermeasures (IMEDMC). She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE).
Her research is in microeconomic theory. She has strong interests for matching, information, bounded rationality, and evolution.
Laure Goursat will also present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
More about Laure GOURSAT and her research
Date: FRIDAY, March 8th - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next Friday Seminar will host Raphaël LEVY (Visiting faculty, on leave from HEC Paris) & Antoine JACQUET (Postdoc, Sciences Po) on March 15th.
PEPES Seminar - Mar 7th
Citizens from different walks of life placing their election ballots
Caroline LE PENNEC is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal since 2021. She is also a Researcher at the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and an Affiliate of the Monash SoDa Labs. She was awarded her PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2020 and she is a Sciences Po alumnae of our MSc of Economics and Public Policy!
Her research interests include Political Economy, Electoral Competition, and Campaign Communication.
Caroline Le Pennec will present a paper, joint with Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, and Vincent Pons, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:
More about Caroline LE PENNEC and her research
Date: THURSDAY, March 7th - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room
The next PEPES Seminar will host Marta REYNAL-QUEROL (UPF) on April 25th.
