Friday Seminar with Felipe LAURITZEN (ScPo PhD) & Venance RIBLIER (ScPo PhD)

Felipe Lauritzen is a PhD Candidate at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Essays in Political Economics: Democracy Representation and Inequalities, under the supervision of Julia Cagé. He is currently visiting at Columbia University sponsored by Professor Andrea Prat.

He is also an affiliated researcher with the National Observatory of Women in Politics of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and in the CEPR Media Plurality Research and Policy Network (RPN).  

His research interests lie in Political Economy and Development Economics, particularly exploring how democracy, inequality, and media intertwine.

Felipe Lauritzen's website

He will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Vote Remittances (abstract to follow)

Venance Riblier is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Essays on Sovereign Debt under the supervision of Nicolas Cœurdacier. He is also a PhD student at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) since 2023 as well as a Graduate Fellow at the Clausen Center for the academic year 2024-2025.  

He is a macroeconomist, using both theory and empirics to address questions such as fiscal policy and public debt. His research also aims at understanding the sources of business cycles fluctuations or inflation.

Venance Riblier's website

He will also present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Monetary Policy in Space (abstract to follow)

This is the final Friday Seminar of the academic year 2024-25: we look forward to seeing you again in the Fall !