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The Best Master Thesis in Economics

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Section #annee-2022-2023

Academic Year 2022-2023

Impact of conflicts on the underground drug economy in Aghanistan (PDF, 764 Ko)
Antoine POL under the direction of Golvine de Rochambeau, Assistant Professor  of Economics at Sciences Po.

The case of win-win bilateral slot swapping between ECAC area competing airlines (PDF, 951 Ko) 
Hugo BARRAS under the direction of  Marleen Marra, Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Do Banks Help Build? Evidence from the 19th century US (PDF, 2,7 Mo)
Martin BERNSTEIN under the direction of Moritz Schularick, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po & Clement de Chaisemartin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, ERC Project REALLYCREDIBLE, NBER Faculty Research Fellow, J-PAL Affiliated Professor.

Heterogeneous firms and Sudden Stops: insights from Chile (PDF, 835 Ko)
Natalia CARDENAS FRIAS under the direction of Xavier Ragot, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po et President of the OFCE.

Structural cost and network effects in a decentralized network: The case of Mastodon platform (PDF, 290 Ko)
Mathias DACHERT under the direction of Michele Fioretti,  Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Age-Earnings Profiles in China (PDF, 1,4 Mo)
Fangqi DING under the direction of Moshe Buchinsky, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Natural and Financial Crises: Do Natural Disasters Increase The Risk Of Financial Crises? (PDF, 701 Ko)
Daniel FICHMANN under the direction of Moritz Schularick, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Intergenerational mobility in Mauritius (PDF, 889 Ko)
Jeteesha FOOLLEE under the direction of Roberto Galbiati, Professor (CNRS), CEPR Research Fellow, ANR Project SOSELF.

The merits of boarding (PDF, 2,3 Mo)
Alexandre GRELLET under the direction of Clement de Chaisemartin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, ERC Project REALLYCREDIBLE, NBER Faculty Research Fellow , J-PAL Affiliated Professor.

Causal Effect of Studying Ancient Languages on Overall School Performance: Evidence from French Data (PDF, 2,1 Mo)
Anthony KUYU under the direction of Clement de Chaisemartin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, ERC Project REALLYCREDIBLE, NBER Faculty Research Fellow , J-PAL Affiliated Professor.

Holes in the ceiling! Dividend elasticities and tax avoidance in light of the ceiling mechanism of the French wealth tax (PDF, 1,9 Mo)
Elvin LE POUHAËR under the direction of Lucas Chancel, Associate Professor at Sciences Po.

Consequences of Colonial Rule on Health Outcomes in India (PDF, 1,2 Mo)
Kunal PANDA under the direction of Emeric Henry, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, ANR Project SOSELF, CEPR Research Fellow.

 

Section #annee-2021-2022

Academic Year 2021-2022

A good year to bury bad loans? Uncovering liquidity in the market for non-performing loans (PDF, 1.12 Mo)
Nathaniel Butler Blondel under the direction of Guillaume Plantin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po &  Maximilian Fandl of the Macroprudential Division at the European Central Bank

Mobility of French teachers in secondary education: modelisation and estimation of a dynamic centralised matching market (PDF, 1.37 Mo)
Antoine Chapel under the direction of Jean-Marc Robin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po & Alfred Galichon, Professor of Economics at New York University

The Drivers of Social and Individual Environmental Behaviour (PDF, 1.82 Mo)
Sidonie Commarmond under the direction of Emeric Henry, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po & Roberto Galbiati, CNRS Professor (DR) at Sciences Po

Weighted Dynamic Latent Block Model and its Applications in Sorting Estimation (PDF, 1.55 Mo)
Xinyu Dai under the direction of Jean-Marc Robin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po & Junnan He, Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

Does school choice increase social segregation? Evidence from private schools opening in France between 2005 and 2019 (PDF, 2.95 Mo)
Constance Frohly under the direction of Pierre Cahuc, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po & Denis Fougère, Directeur de recherche CNRS-CRIS

Cost and benefit of green R&D: evidence from French firms (PDF, 1.10 Mo)
Axel Meunier under the direction of Jean-Marc Robin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po & Agnès Benassy-Quéré, Professor of Economics at Paris School of Economics

Campaign Finance Quotas and Female Political Representation: Evidence from 2018 Brazilian Reform 
(PDF, 2.42 Mo)
Olympia Tsoutsoplidi under the direction of Julia Cagé, Associate Professor & Benjamin Marx, Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

Section #annee-2020-2021

Academic Year 2020-2021

International inequality transmission in a two-country HANK model (PDF, 43 Mo)
Naomi Cohen under the direction of Xavier Ragot, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

Job seeker's strategic attention allocation : Evidence from a Field Experiment (PDF, 315 ko)
Mattis Gilbert under the direction of Pierre Cahuc, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

Women Empowerment through Public Employment Programmes: Evidence from Ethiopia (PDF, 2 Mo)
Till Kadereit  under the direction of Benjamin Marx, Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

Price discrimination with endogenous participation in two-sided platforms (PDF, 536 ko)
Aurélien Salas under the direction of Eduardo Perez-Richet, Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

The landscapes of transition: Identifying economic geography in the emergence of capitalist markets in Central and Eastern Europe (PDF, 2 Mo)
Karolina Wilczyńska under the direction of Thierry Mayer, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

Section #annee-2019-2020

Academic Year 2019-2020

Inequality and Current Account - Imbalances in a Monetary Union. Heterogeneous heterogeneities in the Eurozone (PDF, 11Mo)
Danell Benguigui sous la direction de Xavier Ragot, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po

Paris Terrorist Attacks and Hotel Word‐of‐Mouth (PDF, 497 ko)
Yulin Hao sous la direction de Michèle Fioretti, Assistant Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po

Political Trust, Political Participation and Conflict. A case study of the Boko Haram conflict in Nigeria (PDF, 2.71 Mo)
Simeon Lauterbach sous la direction de Benjamin Marx, Assistant Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po

Public debt and safety trap in open economies (PDF, 440 ko)
Valentin Marchal sous la direction de Nicolas Coeurdacier, Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

Global Migration and the Skill Premium (PDF, 346 ko)
Alberto Nasi sous la direction de Thierry Mayer, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po

Section #annee-2018-2019

Academic Year 2018-2019

Information design against petty corruption (PDF, 341ko)
Grégory Dannay, sous la direction d'Eduardo Perez-Richet, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po

What drives the French discontent? (PDF, 453 ko)
Eva Davoine, sous la direction de Benjamin Marx, Assistant Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po

Overtime Hours and Bonuses: A Story of Fiscal Optimization (PDF, 700ko)
Nicolas Ghio, sous la direction de Pierre Cahuc, Professeur à Sciences Po &  Denis Fougère, Directeur de recherche CNRS - OSC-LIEPP

Knocking on closed doors? Identifying the determinants of employer call-backs for unskilled youth (PDF, 1.20Mo)
Lorenzo Kaaks, sous la direction de Pierre Cahuc, Professeur à Sciences Po

Cracks in the boards: the opportunity cost of homogeneous boards of directors (PDF, 5.37Mo)
Hélène Maghin, sous la direction de Ghazala Azmat, Professeur à Sciences Po

Does Dark Trading Alter Liquidity? Evidence from European Regulation (PDF, 504ko)
Victor Saint-Jean, sous la direction de Stéphane Guibaud, Assistant Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po

The Relationship Between Housing Vouchers and Educational Attainment in Atlanta, GA (PDF, 396ko)
Rebecca Smith, sous la direction de Ghazala Azmat, Professeur à Sciences Po

Reading about Flood Risk in the News - Evidence from the Housing Market (PDF, 19Mo)
Jeanne Sorin, sous la direction de Julia CagéAssistant Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po & Florian Oswald, Assistant Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po 

Section #annee-2017-2018

Academic Year 2017-2018

Gravity in paradise - How do tax havens shape multinational production (PDF)
Samuel Delpeuch sous la direction de Zsofia Barany, Assistant Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po et Thomas Chaney, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po

Chasing the Flapper Vote Women Enfranchisement and Electoral Outcomes at the 1929 British General Election (PDF)
Edgard Dewitte sous la direction de Julia Cagé, Assistant Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po

Savings in a 3 Period-Model with a Behavioral Agent - Rational inattention with a Sparse Dynamic
Approach (PDF)
Galo Egas G. sous la direction de Xavier Ragot, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po

Quality of life in French cities (PDF)
Mylène Feuillade sous la direction de Pierre-Philippe Combes, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po et Laurent Gobillon, Professeur d'économie à Paris School of Economics

Non-Cognitive Skills Training and Educational Outcomes: New Evidence from French Middle Schools (PDF)
Laura Green sous la direction de GREEN, Yann Algan, Doyen de l’École d’Affaires Publiques (EAP) et Professeur d’économie à Sciences Po & Denis Fougère, Directeur de recherche CNRS - OSC-LIEPP

Dynamics of local employment in Europe: Is the impact of agglomeration economies time inconsistent? (PDF)
Magdalena Kizior sous la direction de Pierre-Henri Bono, Chef de projet au LIEPP & Département d'économie de Sciences Po, Jean Imbs, Directeur de recherche CNRS, Paris School of Economics

Learning under Coarse Thinking (PDF)
Daniel M. de A. Barreto sous la direction de Eduardo Perez-Richet, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po et Jeanne Hagenbach, Associate Professor d'économie à Sciences Po

Estimating employment effects of the German minimum wage (PDF)
Johannes Seebauer sous la direction de Florian Oswald, Assistant Professor à Sciences Po & Denis Fougère, Directeur de recherche CNRS - OSC-LIEPP

Present-Bias and Salience in Discounting Acros Short Durations: a Proposed Experimental Approach (PDF)
Zydney Wong sous la direction de Jeanne Hagenbach, Associate Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po & Emeric Henry, Associate Professor au Département d'Économie, Sciences Po

Section #annee-2016-2017

Academic year 2016-2017

Does training pay? Estimating the wage returns to vocational training in France (PDF)

Olivier Cassagneau-Francis sous la direction de Jean-Marc Robin, Professeur à Sciences Po et Robert Gary-Bobo, Professeur à l'ENSAE

Competing Information Designers (PDF)

Théo Durandard sous la direction d'Eduardo Perez-Richet, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po

What's new in the new? Media coverage about the ECB and market participants'inflation expectations (PDF)

Mikael Eskenazi sous la direction de Christine Graeff, directrice générale de la communication de la Banque centrale européenne et Benoit Coeuré, Membre du Directoire de la Banque centrale européenne

Impact of Trade on the Characteristics of the Digital Newspaper Market (PDF)

Anaïs Galdin sous la direction de Julia Cagé, Associate Professor of Economics à Sciences Po et Thomas Chaney, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po

Intergenerational Income Mobility in France : National and Territorial Estimates (PDF)

Gustave Kenedi sous la direction de Pierre-Philippe Combes, Professeur d'économie à Sciences Po

Intergenerational transfert without commitment: a macroeconomic framework (PDF)

Hugo Lhuillier sous la direction de Nicolas Coeurdacier, Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

Evaluation of the impact computer-aided instruction on student performence (PDF)

Clémence Lobut sous la direction de Denis Fougère, Directeur de recherche CNRS - OSC-LIEPP

Section #annee-2015-2016

Academic Year 2015-2016

Colonial Administrators and Public Educational - Investments in French West Africa (PDF)

Christine Cai sous la direction de Quoc Anh DO, Associate Professor of Economics 

 Incumbency Effect and Partisanship in development: Evidence from close elections in India (PDF)

Ragini Chaurasia, sous la direction de Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics

Were Administrators the "Rulers of the Empire"? An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa (PDF)

Par Sacha Dray, sous la direction d'Elise Huillery, Assistant Professor of Economics et Quoc-Anh Do, Associate Professor of Economics 

Aspirations, Family Background and Educational Outcomes: Evidence of a Poverty Trap in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (PDF)

Ava Guez, sous la direction d'Elise Huillery, Assistant Professor of Economics

 Present and Future Costs of Education and International Students - Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany (PDF)

Par Benoit Rauturier, sous la direction d'Etienne Wasmer, Full Professor of Economics

 The Consequences of Managerial Short-termism on the Firm : Theory and Empirics (PDF)

Bilal Tabti, sous la direction de Guillaume Plantin, Professor of Economics

Measuring the impact of the CICE on Firms' investments (PDF)

Camille Urvoy, sous la direction de Denis Fougère, Directeur de recherche CNRS - OSC-LIEPP

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail? Immigration, Local Public Spending and Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (PDF)

Max Viskanic, sous la direction d'Emeric Henry, Directeur des études doctorales en Economie, Professeur associé au Département d'Economie, Sciences Po

Section #annee-2014-2015

Academic Year 2014-2015

Heterogeneous Preferences and General Equilibrium in Financial Markets (PDF)

Tyler ABBOT, sous la direction de Nicolas COEURDACIER, Associate Professor of Economics

Returns to College on the Marriage Market: a Simple Roy Model with Perfect Foresight (PDF)

Edoardo CISCATO, sous la direction de Jean-Marc ROBIN, Professor of Economics 

Social-Democracy. Homophily and polarisation in politics, the Italian Twitter network (PDF)

Mario LUCA, sous la direction de Ruben DURANTE,  Associate Professor of Economics

Population's fear and hostility and the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (PDF)

Norbert RUGAMBAGE, sous la direction d'Elise HUILERY, Associate Professor of Economics

Le Marché du Logement et l'Emploi des Jeunes (PDF)

Jean-Benoît Eymeoud, sous la direction d'Etienne WASMER, Full Professor of Economics