Alfred Galichon, professor at the department of Economics, has received the selective starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC)
Alfred Galichon, professor at the department of Economics at Sciences Po has been awarded an ERC – European Research Council – Starting Grant for his research project « EcoMatch » – Matching Markets: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations This project aims at taking matching models to the empirical data. Matching theory studies how to form optimal coalitions of economic agents based on their complementarities. This theory, which was recently distinguished by the award of the 2012 Nobel prize in Economics to Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, finds application in a number [...]