Home>2025-2026 academic job market
27.10.2025
2025-2026 academic job market
In 2025/26, four of our current PhD candidates and one of our postdocs have enrolled for our training programme piloted by the Department's Placement Officers, Antoine Ferey and Claire Montialoux.
Naomi Cohen is an economist specialising in international macroeconomics and finance. Her research focuses on the role of heterogeneity across households and countries in shaping macroeconomic outcomes and policy transmission. Her job market paper examines how capital market integration influences inequality in response to asymmetric shocks within the euro area.
Job Market Paper :
Who Benefits from Capital Market Integration in the Euro Area?
Laure Goursat is a microeconomic theorist with interests in matching, games, information, rationality, and evolution. Her research establishes key properties of matchings markets and strategic environments where agents have limited information and / or are boundedly rational.
Her Job Market Paper 1 studies the role of information in matching with priority scores and shows that private information is less efficient but more egalitarian than public information. Her Job Market Paper 2 characterizes pairwise stable matchings when agents have a projection bias and shows that the market may never stabilize.
Job Market Papers :
Job market paper 1 :
Whether and Where to Apply? Information and Discrimination in Matching with Priority Scores
Job market paper 2 :
How Can I Know How Much I Like You? A Heuristic Approach to Matching and Stability
Riddhi is an applied econometrician and microeconomist currently working on topics in wage inequality, labour market sorting, and policy analysis. She is particularly interested in how institutions shape wage inequality. Her job market paper demonstrates that the public sector exhibits smaller gender gaps and compresses wage inequality over careers, but restricts advancement for highly educated workers using evidence from French administrative data.
Job Market Paper :
Evaluating the Public Pay Gap by Gender: A Comparison of Public and Private Sector Wages in France
Valentin Marchal addresses macro-finance issues with an emphasis on theory. His job market paper shows that the sustained rise in the wealth-to-output ratio in advanced economies may be partly explained by a rational bubble arising from increasing top income inequality.
Job Market Paper :
A Scrooge McDuck Theory of Wealth Dynamics
Aurélien Salas is a microeconomist studying how users’ behaviors and regulations shape outcomes in the digital economy, using microeconomic theory, behavioral, and experimental economics. His job-market paper studies how two-sided platforms inform sellers about buyers' valuations to enable price discrimination when buyer participation is endogenous.
Job Market Paper :
Price Discrimination with Endogenous Participation
