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This year's academic JM candidates

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.

 

Portrait of Naomi Cohen


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


Portrait of Riddhi Kalsi


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


Portrait of Aurélien Salas


Aurélien Salas

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

Supervisors : Eduardo Perez-Richet and Jeanne Hagenbach

 

 

Research Interests : 
Behavioural 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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