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(In the news) - Breaking the myths about immigration and its supposedly negative economic impacts

In a few worlds It is a fact that migration produces various social, cultural and economic effects. Together with Ekrame Boubtane and Dramane Coulibaly, Hippolyte d’Albis (PSE - CNRS) has published various research on this topic. They conclude (...)

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(SCOR-PSE Chair) Newsletter #4 - April 2020

The SCOR-PSE Chair on Macroeconomic Risk has been launched in June 2018. Held by PSE, it is financed by the SCOR Foundation for Science. Under the scientific leadership of Gilles Saint-Paul (PSE, ENS) and the executive leadership of Axelle (...)

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(April 28) SCOR-PSE Chair: Online Lecture and Junior Research Prize Talk

On April 28, 2020, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania) gave an online lecture (Zoom) organized by the SCOR-PSE Chair: “Simple Rules for a Complex World with Artificial Intelligence”. The lecture was followed by a presentation by (...)

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(March 2020) 5 papers...in 5 minutes !

Can Indian democracy tackle social inequalities? Abhijit Banerjee, Amory Gethin, Thomas Piketty* Mass social movements have always been crucial to the reduction of inequalities. In Europe and the United States, the strong mobilisation of the (...)

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(March 25) Attend the EDCBA webinar

You’re already thinking about September 2020, and you wish to know more about the master of science offered by the Ecole des Ponts and the Paris School of Economics ? Register & attend (for free) the live webinar from 4 pm (Paris time) on (...)

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(IPP Policy Brief n°53) Propagation of shocks in global value chains: the coronavirus case

References: IPP Policy Brief n°53, March 2020 - Authors: Elie Gerschel, Alejandra Martinez, Isabelle Mejean Before spreading globally, the Covid-19 epidemic was concentrated in the Hubei province. To contain the spread of the virus, the Chinese (...)

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March 2020 - Coronavirus

As regards the current health crisis and the measures taken by the french authorities, the PSE building is closed until further notice. Courses are now given online and the scientific events (seminars, conferences...) that were scheduled in the (...)

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(March 30) Lecture by Oleg Itskhoki: “Mussa puzzle redux: financial market segmentation and monetary non-neutrality”

Dear all, Unfortunately, we are bound to reschedule Oleg Itskhoki’s lecture due to current health security measures. We’ll get back to you soon as we settle for a new date. Sorry for any inconveniences entailed by this cancellation. Why are (...)

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(March 30) Journée de formation de l’APHEC 2020

Dear all, Unfortunately, we inform you that the APHEC training day, initially scheduled for March 30, 2020, is cancelled due to current health security measures. We will get back to you as soon as we have more information from the organizers (...)

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(A word from) Nicolas Jacquemet: “Laboratory experiments are for all economists, not just behavioural economists”

Nicolas Jacquemet is a professor at PSE and at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne where he heads the Master in Economics and Psychology. His work uses findings from psychology research to understand economic behaviours in tax evasion, (...)

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