The Department continues to grow

The Department continues to grow

Spotlight on our newest faculty members
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We extend the warmest welcome to Michele FIORETTI, Junnan HE, Kerstin HOLZHEU, and Marleen MARRA.

Michele Fioretti

 

 

Michele FIORETTI comes to the Department from the University of Southern California (USC) where he defended his thesis this past year. Prior to his PhD, Michele FIORETTI acquired a MPA in Political Economy at the LSE and then a MA in Economics at USC.

 His work focuses particularly on the economic dynamics in sectors with a social dimension, such as the health sector or the energy sector.

His primary research areas are:

  • Empirical Industrial Organisation
  • Behavioural Economics
  • Applied Microeconomics 

His research and scholarship have already received a number of awards and fellowships and notably the Award for the Best Applied Economics Paper by a Young Researcher at the 2018 Econometric Society Summer European Meeting (EEA-ESEM Cologne).

More about Michele FIORETTI and his research

As of September 1st, Michele FIORETTI is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 - Office J 404

Junnan He

 

 

 

Junnan HE comes to the Department from the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) where he defended his thesis this past year. He holds a BSc in Mathematical Economics and Mathematics from the Australian National University and a MA in Economics from WUSTL.

He works on model sparsity and variable selection as well as stochastic choice models.

His primary research areas are :

  • Econometrics
  • Decision Theory

His research has already been honoured with awards and fellowships, and notably his dissertation which warranted him a Dissertation Fellowship from WUSTL in 2017 and the Best PhD SPEED Presentation at the 20th OxMetrics User Conference in 2018.

More about Junnan HE and his research

As of September 1st, Junnan HE is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office J 408

Kerstin Holzheu

Kerstin HOLZHEU comes to the Department after spending a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She is also an IZA Fellow. She defended her PhD in 2018 at the University of Chicago. She holds a MA & BA in Empirical Social Sciences and a MA in Applied Economics from the University of Stuttgard and Sciences Po Bordeaux (French-German Double Diploma in Social Sciences). And just prior to joining the University of Chicago she undertook a MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (GSE).

Her work deals with labour economics and business economics from the standpoint of applied macroeconomics. In particular, she is interested in the question of workforce allocation.

Her primary research areas are :

  • Applied Macroeconomics
  • Labour Economics
  • Firm Dynamics

Her research and scholarship have already warranted her a number of awards and fellowships. She notably received the 2017 University of Chicago Data Award, a Schultz Endowment in 2016 and a CSWEP Fellowhip at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.

More about Kerstin HOLZHEU and her research

As of September 1st, Kerstin HOLZHEU is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office C 405 A

Marleen Marra

 

Marleen MARRA comes to the Department from University College London (UCL) where she defended her thesis this past year. Prior to her PhD she undertook a MSc at Tilburg University and a MRes in Economics (with Distinction) at UCL. In 2016 she was selected for the Yale-UCL Collaborative Exchange Program and was a Visiting PhD student at Yale. And in 2018 she was a CeMMAP Scholar at the IFS.

Her research focuses on the structural analysis of auctions to learn about strategic behavior of firms and individuals in auction markets, with the aim to inform public policy.

Her primary research areas are:

  • Empirical Industrial Organisation
  • Structural Econometrics
  • Applied Microeconomics 

Her work has already received recognition: she was awarded a number of scholarships throughout her doctoral studies as well as for her overseas institutional visit at Yale.

More about Marleen MARRA and her research

As of September 1st, Marleen MARRA is Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Office J 401


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