Speakers

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Alberto Bisin
He is elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the CESS NBER CEPR, founding editor at noiseFromAmerika.org, columnist for La Repubblica and Organizer of the NBER Meeting on Culture and Institutions.
Session: 15 June, 10:35 - On the joint evolution of culture and institutions
Webpage: https://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/bisina/
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David Card
He is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include inequality, racial disparities, education, and immigration.
Session: 15 June - 16:10 - The role of firms in the labor market
Webpage: http://davidcard.berkeley.edu

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Emmanuel Farhi
Emmanuel Farhi is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research focuses on macroeconomics, finance, international economics, and public finance.
Session: 15 June 14:00
Webpage: https://scholar.harvard.edu/farhi/home

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Emmanuel Saez
He is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on tax policy and inequality both from theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Session: 16 June 16:20 - Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States
Webpage: http://eml.berkeley.edu/ saez/

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Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
Session: 16 June 9:00 - The Impact of Free Secondary Education : Experimental Evidence from Ghana
(February 2017) with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer
Webpage: https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo

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Facundo Alvaredo
Researcher at CONICET, Research Fellow at the Paris School of Economics, co-director of The World Wealth and Income Database (formerly The World Top Incomes Database), associate Member, Nuffield College and research affiliate at CEPR and CESifo.
Session: 16 June 15:30 - The World Inequality Lab and the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world)
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/alvaredo/

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Gabriel Zucman
He is assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley since 2015 and he is the co-director of the World Wealth and Income Database.
Session: 16 June 15:30 - The World Inequality Lab and the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world)
Webpage: http://gabriel-zucman.eu

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Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
He taught at UCLA’s Department of Economics from 1988 to 2006. He is currently the Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic History. His research focuses on understanding what institutions encourage economic growth and wealth formation.
Session: 16 June 14:10 - The End of Rentiers ; Wealth and Wealth inequality in Paris 1872-1957
Webpage: http://people.hss.caltech.edu/ jlr/jlr.htm

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Jörgen Weibull
He is A.O Wallenberg Professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, Affliliated professor of mathematical statistics at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) andvisiting research Fellow at the IAST Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse.
Session: 15 June 9:45 - Morality: evolutionary foundations, experimental support, and economic implications
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/joergenweibull/

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Lucas Chancel
He is coordinator of the World Inequality Report and of the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world) at the Paris School of Economics. He lectures at Sciences Po in the Master of Public Policy on the economics of inequality and sustainable development. He is also a researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.
Session: 16 June 15:30 - The World Inequality Lab and the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world)
Webpage: https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/fr/chancel-lucas/

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Martin Ravallion
Martin is the current President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Non-Resident Fellow of the Center for Global Development and a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development.
Session: 16 June 9:50 - Informational Constraints on Targeted Antipoverty Policies in Africa
Webpage: http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/mr1185/

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Paul Klemperer
He is Edgeworth Professor of Economics at Oxford University, Fellow
of the British Academyand member of Council, Game Theory Society.
Session: 15 June 11:50 - Parisian geometers and equilibrium
Webpage: http://www.paulklemperer.org/index.htm

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Pierre-André Chiappori
He is E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics at Columbia University and distinguished Fellow Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at The University of Chicago.
Session: 15 June 17:00 - Assortative Matching and Human Capital Investment
Webpage: http://www.columbia.edu/ pc2167/

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Ricardo J. Caballero
He is Ford International Professor of Economics, a director of the World Economic Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an NBER Research Associate.
Session: 16 June 12:00 - A Model of Fickle Capital Flows and Retrenchment
Webpage: https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/caball

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Thomas Philippon
He is Professor of finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. He joined the Monetary Policy Advisory Panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2015.
Session: 15 June 14:50 - Investment-less growth
Webpage : http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/ tphilipp/
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Thomas Piketty
He is professor of Economics at EHESS and Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics. He is also director of the World Wealth and Income Database.
Session: 16 June 17:10 - Rising inequality and globalization
Webpage: https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/piketty-thomas/

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Xavier Gabaix
He is currently Professor of Finance at the Harvard University, Faculty Research Fellow, CEPR and NBER. He has been listed among the top 8 young economists in the world by The Economist.
Session: 16 June 11:10 - Sparsity-based bounded rationality in micro and macro
Webpage: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/ xgabaix/