Paris Empirical Political Economics Seminar (PEPES) with Vincent Pons (Harvard)

Vincent Pons is the Byron Wien Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics Department. He is also affiliated to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), to the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). 

His research examines the foundations of democracy: how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved. He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter participation, those shaping preferences, the representativeness of results, and the effects of election outcomes on policies and on countries’ economic performance. He publishes regularly in top-tier international journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the American Political Science Review. In 2023 he received the Best Young French Economist Award.

Vincent Pons' website

He will present a paper, joint with Raphaël Descamps, Benjamin Marx, and
Vincent Rollet, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:

The Global Incumbency (read paper, PDF 1.8 MB)

The next PEPES Seminar will host Sascha BECKER (Monash University) on June 4th.