Paris Empirical Political Economics Seminar (PEPES) with Sascha BECKER (University of Warwick)

*This exceptional joint seminar will take place at PSE, Jourdan Campus, in Room R1-14*

Sascha Becker is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and the Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), of the International Economic Association, and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). Among his editorial duties, he is Editor of the Economic Journal, a member of the Board of Editors of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Economic History, of the Australian Economic History Review, and of the Italian Economic Journal, and an Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and of the Journal of Economic Growth.

Sascha’s research interests lie in economic history, with his work in recent years focusing on forced migration, genocides, the legacy of the Hapsburg Empire, and the persecution of Jewish academics in Nazi Germany and Italy.

Sascha Becker's website

He will present a paper, joint with Luca de Benedictis, at an exceptional joint seminar - PEPES and Paris Migration Seminar - on the topic:

Discrimination, Political Orientation, and Escape: University Professors in Fascist Italy (read abstract, PDF 43 KB)

The next PEPES Seminar will host Stephane WOLTON (LSE) later this week on June 5th.