Friday Seminar - Nov 24th

Jeanne COMMAULT is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department since 2018. Before joining Sciences Po, Jeanne Commault was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and Research Associate at the University College London (UCL) in 2017. Last year, she was a visiting faculty member at Princeton in the Fall, and during the Winter/Spring semester she was selected to the Visiting Scholar Programme of the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) and to the Atlanta Fed Early-Career Visitor programme.

Her research lies in the fields of macroeconomics and applied microeconomics with a special focus on household consumption and saving behaviour.

Jeanne Commault will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Earnings Risks and the Concavity of Consumption in Permanent Earnings (abstract to follow)

More about Jeanne COMMAULT and her research

Clément IMBERT joined the Department this year as Full Professor from the University of Warwick where he was a faculty member since 2015. Prior to that he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics and at Nuffield College (Oxford) for three years. He is a Full Member of the European Development Network (EUDN) and a Research Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and at the Abdul Latif Jameel – Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).

His research interests span development, environment, labour, public economics, and political economy. His current research is on labour market programs, internal migration, and environmental issues in developing countries.

Clément Imbert will also present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Structural Transformation and Deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa (abstract to follow)

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Date: FRIDAY, November 24th - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)

The next Friday Seminar will host Clément DE CHAISEMARTIN (Sciences Po) & Georgia THÉBAULT (Postdoc Sciences Po) on December 1st.