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17.03.2025
Excellence: news from the 2024/25 academic job market
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 five 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.
Juan Sebastián Ivars
Juan Sebastián is a microeconomist using theoretical and empirical tools to address applied economic questions. Interested in applied microeconomic theory, contract theory, industrial organisation and organisational economics, his job market paper identifies and measures how public officials manipulate the value of purchases in response to regulation and examines its welfare implications.
Currently a PhD Candidate at Sciences Po, Juan Sebastián will be joining the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Balearic Islands (UIB), in Mallorca, Spain as Visiting Professor. This position will start in September 2025.
Gustave Kenedi
Gustave is an applied microeconomist whose research lies at the intersection of intergenerational mobility and educational inequalities. He is particularly interested in the measurement and spatial variations of intergenerational mobility, the underlying mechanisms and the policies that can help remediate intergenerational inequalities. In this spirit his job market paper investigated the determinants of students' higher education choices, focusing particularly on the role played by older schoolmates and teachers.
Gustave defended his doctoral dissertation with brio in November 2023 - he was awarded in accessit the Philippe Martin Thesis Prize - and has been pursuing his research at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance as a Postdoctoral Research Economist.
Gustave will be joining CY Cergy Paris University as Assistant Professor this Fall.
Leonard Le Roux
Leonard is an applied microeconomist working on questions at the intersection of development and urban economics and is particularly interested in the interactions of rapid urbanization with governance and state capacity in lower and middle income countries. His job market paper studies how violence can emerge from economic competition in a legal but informal market as a result of general failures in contract enforcement.
Currently a PhD Candidate at Sciences Po and PhD Fellow at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE), Leonard will be joining the Applied Economics Department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in September 2026 as Assistant Professor.
Itzhak Rasooly
Itzhak is a behavioural economist whose work blends experimentation (often in the field) with microeconomic theory. His research explores a variety of questions including why double auctions produce equilibrium prices, whether attitudes towards redistribution depend on attitudes towards race, and whether level-k reasoning underpins auction bidding. In his job market paper, he conducts the first large-scale field experiment on the manipulability of prediction markets.
Itzhak is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department (joint appointment with PSE), working with Emeric Henry and Roberto Galbiati on their ANR project Prosocial Behaviour: A Tale of Two Images (SOSELF). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Itzhak will be joining City St George's, University of London as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) this Fall.
Diego de Sousa Rodrigues
Diego is a macroeconomist specialising in heterogeneous agent models and their role in understanding business cycles and optimal policy design. His job market paper explores a new mechanism capturing the cost-of-carry channel of monetary policy, showing how inventory costs influence pricing and link monetary policy to inflation dynamics.
Diego was awarded his PhD in Economics in November 2024, after spending a year working in the Structural Economics Division at the Bank of England. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics at the University of Southern California (USC).
Diego will be joining the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Economics next Fall.
