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09.10.2025

Paris Empirical Political Economics Seminar (PEPES) with Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich)

About this event

09 October 2025 from 12:30 until 13:45

R2-01

48 Boulevard Jourdan (Paris School of Economics), 75014, Paris

Organized by

Department of Economics and PSE
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Portrait of Eliott Ash

Eliott Ash is Associate Professor and holds the Professorship of the The Law, Economics, and Data Science Group at ETH Zurich. Prior to joining ETH Zurich, he was a New York University Scholar in Residence, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, and Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Among his editorial duities, he is an Associate Editor at the Economic Journal, and the Co-Editor at the Journal of Law and Economics.

His research interests include Law and Economics, Political Economy, Text as Data, and Large Language Models. His research and teaching focus on empirical analysis of law, politics, and governance using techniques from econometrics, natural language processing, and machine learning. He is a Scientific Lead (Human-AI Alignment Horizontal) in the Swiss AI Initiative and recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant for his project Tools from AI for Law and Social Science.

Elliott Ash's webpage

He will present a paper, joint with Benjamin W. Arold, W. Bentley MacLeod, and Suresh Naidu, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:

Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining (read paper)

The next PEPES Seminar will host David YANAGIZAWA-DROTT (University of Zurich) on November 6th.

About this event

09 October 2025 from 12:30 until 13:45

R2-01

48 Boulevard Jourdan (Paris School of Economics), 75014, Paris

Organized by

Department of Economics and PSE