September 3rd, the European Research Council (ERC) officially published the list of projects it has retained for its 2019 “Starting Grants” Call.

As a reminder, Starting Grants are awarded to early-career researchers of any nationality with two to seven years of experience since completion of the PhD (or equivalent degree) and a scientific track record showing great promise.

Only 13% of submitted proposals were successful for this year’s round.

We extend the warmest welcome to Michele FIORETTI, Junnan HE, Kerstin HOLZHEU, and Marleen MARRA.

Camille URVOY is a PhD candidate at SciencesPo and the LIEPP and is working on a thesis in the field of public and political economy supervised by Sergeï GURIEV.

Julien SAUVAGNAT is Assistant Professor at the Department of Finance at Bocconi. He is also affiliated to their Department of Economics and to the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER). He is a CEPR Research Affiliate.

We are very honoured to kick off our Departmental Seminar series this Fall with Joseph E. STIGLITZ who is visiting with us this Fall.

The Department is very honoured to welcome Professor Joseph E. STIGLITZ who will be visiting with us this Fall.

Joseph E. STIGLITZ is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

The Department is honoured to be hosting distinguished Visiting Faculty, Professor Moshe BUCHINSKY, Professor Maria GUADALUPE, Professor Scott GUELBACH throughout the academic year 2019/20 and Professor Gianluca VIOLANTE for the Fall semester.

Moshe BUCHINSKY