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12 May 2026
Excellence: news from the academic job market 2025-2026
Congratulations to our job market candidates !
Our job market candidates have done it again! On a job market that is more and more competitive and demanding, we are proud to announce that four PhD candidates from the Department this year have secured positions in great universities.
Our PhD programme trains top economists who seek to pursue university and academic careers in France or abroad, as well as careers requiring high-level doctoral training: in international organisations, think tanks, research institutions, government agencies, banks, and insurance companies.
Naomi Cohen
Naomi Cohen is an economist specializing 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.
Laureate of a Banque de France 2024 doctoral scholarship and of the ECB's 2025 Lamfalussy Fellowship, Naomi is completing her doctoral dissertation and will be joining the Copenhagen School of Business as Assistant Professor in the Fall 2026.
Riddhi Kalsi
Riddhi Kalsi is an economist focusing on labour economics, applied econometrics and microeconomics. She has been 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.
Riddhi was previously a Fox Fellow at Yale University and is completing her doctoral dissertation. She will be joining the University of Manchester as Lecturer in Econometrics in the Fall 2026.
Valentin Marchal
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.
Valentin is completing his doctoral dissertation. He will be pursuing postdoctoral research at the Univeristy of Konstanz in the framework of the project "Inequalities in Climate Finance” linked to the Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality which studies the political causes and consequences of inequality and how policies shape inequality.
Aurélien Salas
Aurélien Salas is a microeconomist studying how users’ behaviorus and regulations shape outcomes in the digital economy, using microeconomic theory, behavioural, 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.
Aurélien is currently completing his doctoral dissertation. He will join Télécom SudParis on its Évry campus this Fall as Maître de conférence.