Elio Nimier-David is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University since 2024 after completing a year as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a member of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project, working on earnings inequality, mobility, and income risk.

His research lies at the intersection of Labour Economics, Firm Dynamics, and Spatial Economics, with a strong interest in the factors that promote firm creation, firm growth, and local economic activity. His work combines quasi-experimental designs with large-scale administrative data to identify the effects of major education and labor market policies on firms, individuals, and cities. In 2024 he was the laureate of the Best Ph.D Thesis Award in Economics (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and the Charles River Associates Award for Best Paper on Corporate Finance (WFA). And in 2024, he received the Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Award.

Elio Nimier-David's website

He will present a paper, joint with Pauline Carry and Benny Kleinman, at the next Applied Microeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Location Effects or Sorting? Evidence from Firm Relocation (read paper, PDF 17.6 MB)

This is the final Applied Microeconomics Seminar of the Fall Semester: we look forward to meeting again during the Winter-Spring Semester next year !