In a VoxEU column and based on a new index outlined in their ScPo Economics Discussion Paper n° 2025-08, Kevin H. O'Rourke and co-author Roger Vicquery challenge the 'New Consensus'.

Congratulations to Dániel Gyetvai and Sophia Praetorius !

His column explores a hypothetical scenario in which the world is deprived of the dollar as its global safe asset.

How can fiscal policies be designed to reduce inequality without compromising economic growth? That is the question at the heart of Axelle Ferrière’s research.

L’Association Française de Science Économique (AFSE) has awarded a special mention in its 2025 prize for the best Dissertation Prize to Ségal Le Guern Herry for his Dissertation entitled ‘Essays on Behavioral Responses to Taxation.’

We are in the starting blocks for our annual summer workshops in economics - check out the programmes !

The Association Française de Science Économique (AFSE) announced the recipient of the 2025 edition of the Edmond Malinvaud Prize at the 73rd AFSE Annual Conference at ENS Paris-Saclay.

Affiliated faculty member Stéphane Carcillo has co-authored with Marie-Anne Valfort (PSE), a book that investigates the different forms of discrimination that shape the labour market and how to overcome them.

It is with great sadness that Sciences Po's Department of Economics announces the death of Professor Ghazala Azmat, who passed away this weekend. Ghazala was Professor of Economics at the Department since 2016.

Impact evaluation, used, for example, to test the effectiveness of public policies, is being massively captured by the digital giants, even though these tools were often created by academics with public money. Clément de Chaisemartin and co-author Xavier D’Haultfoeuille (CREST-ENSAE) pen an op-ed in Le Monde.

The Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics is now in its 4th year and has become a premier event on the topic. In 2025 the Department of Economics will be hosting this event for the first time.

The Department of Economics’ first-time delegation made it to the final round at the University of Amsterdam’s Econometric Game, dubbed the World Championship of Econometrics.

Tariffs, the Dollar, and the US Economy

Welcome to Michela Boldrini, Post-Doctoral Fellow at IGIER-Bocconi who will be visiting with us this week.

JPAL's European Social Inclusion Initiative has attributed funding for her project 'Housing or Employment First? Experimental Evidence of a Counselling Program for Homeless Job Seekers'.

The “key and timely” insights of Julia and co-laureate David Yanagizawa-Drott, on “the critical role of media and social media in motivating political beliefs and actions, as well as the dangers posed by controlled media”, compelled the jury.

His award-winning paper proposes a novel conceptual framework revealing close interactions between redistribution and social insurance policies with important implications for the design of better tax-benefit systems.

The young doctoral student in economics looks back on his career and his research on the long-term effects of colonialism on health and nutrition.

Congratulations to Juan Sebastián Ivars, Gustave Kenedi, Leonard Le Roux, Itzhak Rasooly, and Diego de Sousa Rodrigues !