Friday Seminar with Pierre-Philippe Combes (Sciences Po) & Ziqian Song (ScPo PhD)

Pierre Philippe Combes is a CNRS Director of Research and Professor at the Department. He is the Director of Graduate Studies (Master and PhD in economics). He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Among his editorial duties, he is Co-Editor of the Journal of Urban Economics.

He is specialised in urban economics and economic geography, with a special interest in the working of local labour and housing markets and the location choices of firms and households, resulting in possible economic spatial disparities. He is currently a member of the ANR research team working on the project Land Use and Urbanisation in France, 1760-2020 - LANDURB, a collaborative PSE-ENY de Lyon project, lead by L. Gobillon and M. Couttenier).

Pierre-Philippe Comlbes' website

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

Urbanisation and urban divergence: France 1760 - 2020 (abstract to follow)

Ziqian Song is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Essays on the Spatial Economics of Technology under the supervision of Pierre-Philippe Combes and Clément Imbert. 

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

AI and Spatial Sorting (read abstract, PDF 41 KB)

The next Friday Seminar will host Antoine Ferey (Sciences Po) & Nicolas Ghio (ScPo PhD Candidate) on May 29th.