Sampreet Singh Goraya is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). He is also an Associate of the European Development Research Network. He was a Visiting Scholar at Princeton last year, and this year he was a Visiting Fellow at Foundations of Law and Finance, Goethe University.

He studies macroeconomics and development economics with a special emphasis on firm dynamics, entrepreneurship, misallocation, intangible capital, and climate change. His research highlights how informal institutions (such as the caste system in India) can reduce productivity and income per capita of a country by allocating excess capital to unproductive entrepreneurs. In other projects, he focuses on the rising importance of intangible investments (R&D, intellectual property products, and computerized information) for firm growth in the last three decades. His current work is trying to find the link between climate, productivity, and income per capita. In 2022 he was the recipient the Ola Bengtsson Best Discussion Award.

Sampreet Singh Goraya's website

He will present a paper, joint with Suanna Oh, Nandita Krishnaswamy, and Yogita Shamdasani,  at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Worker Absenteeism and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector (read paper, PDF 17.8 MB)

Olivia Tsoutsoplidi is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Political Reservations and Representation of Women and Minorities, under the supervision of Julia CAGÉ. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Research Affiliate at Sciences Po's LIEPP.

Her research interests lie in the fields of political economy, economic history, development and labour economics.

Olivia Tsoutsoplidi's website

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

Social Movement Complementarity (abstract to follow)

The next Friday Seminar will host Davide SANSONE (ScPo PhD) & Silvia VANUTELLI (Sciences Po Visiting Faculty) on November 21st.