Gregorio CURELLO is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics and the Institute for Microeconomics of the University of Bonn.

Valentin MARCHAL is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Public Debt and Safety Trap in Open Economies, under the supervision of Stéphane GUIBAUD.

In response to its military aggression in Ukraine, the international community has decided to apply large-scale and unprecedented economic and financial sanctions against Russia.

What are the objectives, effectiveness, risks and potential impact of these sanctions on Russia, Europe and France ?

Elisa GIANNONE is currently on leave at the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) from Penn State University where she is an Assistant Professor of Economics.

When the Department was created a little over 10 years ago, it simultaneously created its own collection of working papers – the Sciences Po Economics Discussion Paper series. Our goal is to make our latest research available to fellow economists, scholars and institutions all over the world as soon as possible.

Nourhan HASHISH is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Essays in Labour and Political Economy, under the supervision of Sergeï GURIEV.

Smoother Sailing for world trade

The pandemic has highlighted the importance of global value chains, an organisation of production which relies on the integration of components that come from all over the world. If one element goes amiss, the entire chain is affected. Understanding where the fragility of these chains comes from, how the propagation of shocks impact them, has become essential. These are precisely the questions Isabelle Mejean sets out to answer in her research project ‘Firm-to-Firm Trade Networks’.