Academic Job Market Candidates 2025-26

This year, four of our PhD in Economics students and one of our postdoctoral fellows will be heading on to the academic job market.

Naomi Cohen

Naomi Cohen is a PhD Candidate in Economics and a Teaching Fellow (ATER) at Sciences Po.

Supervisors : Xavier Ragot (primary) and Nicolas Cœurdacier (secondary)

Research Interests : 
Primary fields: International Macroeconomics 
Secondary fields: Households Finance, Monetary Economics, Geoeconomics

Job Market Paper :
Who Benefits from Capital Market Integration in the Euro Area? 

References : Xavier Ragot (Sciences Po), Nicolas Cœurdacier (Sciences Po), Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po) 

Naomi Cohen's website

Laure Goursat

Laure Goursat is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at Sciences Po, working with Eduardo Perez-Richet on his ERC CoG project Information and Misinformation Economics: Design, Manipulations, and Countermeasures (IMEDMC).

She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE) since 2024.

Research Interests : 
Matching Markets; Mechanism Design; Economics of Information; Bounded Rationality; Evolutionary Game Theory; Experimental Economics

Job Market Paper :
Whether and Where to Apply? Information and Discrimination in Matching with Priority Scores (job market paper 1)

How Can I Know How Much I Like You? A Heuristic Approach to Matching and Stability (job market paper 2)

References :  Philippe Jehiel (PSE - UCL), Francis Bloch (PSE - Paris 1), Eduardo Perez-Richet (Sciences Po), George J. Mailath (UPenn - ANU), Kfir Eliaz (TAU)

Laure Goursat's website

Riddhi Kalsi

Riddhi Kalsi is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po.

Supervisor : Jean-Marc Robin 

Research Interests : 
Labour Economics; Applied Econometrics; Microeconomics.

Job Market Paper :
Evaluating the Public Pay Gap by Gender: A Comparison of Public and Private Sector Wages in France

References : Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po), Clément de Chaisemartin (Sciences Po), Costas Meghir (Yale University), Rawi Abdelal (Harvard Business School)

Riddhi Kalsi's website

Valentin Marchal

Valentin Marchal is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po.

Supervisor : Stéphane Guibaud 

Research Interests : 
Rational Bubbles; Wealth Inequality; and Monetary-Fiscal Interaction. His work addresses macro-finance issues with an emphasis on theoretical approaches

Job Market Paper :
A Scrooge McDuck Theory of Wealth Dynamics

References : Stéphane Guibaud (Sciences Po), Nicolas Cœurdacier (Sciences Po)

Valentin Marchal's website

Aurélien Salas

Aurélien Salas is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po.

Supervisors : Eduardo Perez-Richet and Jeanne Hagenbach

Research Interests : 
Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Information Economics 
Fields of specialisation: Digital Platforms; Human-AI interaction; Privacy

Job Market Paper :
Price Discrimination with Endogenous Participation

References : Jeanne Hagenbach (Sciences Po), Emeric Henry (Sciences Po), Eduardo Perez-Richet (Sciences Po)

Aurélien Salas' website

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Results from the 2024/2025 academic job market
Previous academic placements
Non academic placements