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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 [...]

Alfred Galichon, professeur au département d’économie vient de recevoir la prestigieuse bourse Starting Grant ERC

Le Conseil européen de la recherche a attribué un « ERC Starting Grant» à Alfred Galichon, professeur au département d’économie de Sciences Po, pour son projet de recherche « EcoMatch » – Matching Markets: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. Ce projet vise à confronter les modèles dits d’appariement aux données empiriques. La théorie des modèles d’appariement consiste à comprendre comment associer différents agents économiques le mieux possible en fonction de leurs complémentarités. Elle a été récemment couronnée par le prix Nobel d’Economie 2012 [...]

Thierry Mayer, Professor at the department of Economics, has received the selective starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC)

Thierry Mayer, Professor at the department of Economics, Sciences Po, has received the very selective starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC) for his 5-year project HETMAT: Heterogeneity that Matters for Welfare and Trade. Accounting for firms’ heterogeneity in trade patterns is probably the most important innovation of the field of international trade that occurred during the last decade. The impact of initial papers such as Melitz (2003) for theory and Bernard and Jensen (1999) for the empirics is so large in the field that it is usually considered to have provoked a [...]

Thierry Mayer, professeur au département d’économie vient de recevoir la prestigieuse bourse Starting Grant ERC

Thierry Mayer, professeur des Universités au département d’économie de Sciences Po vient de recevoir la prestigieuse bourse Starting Grant  ERC pour son projet de recherche – HETMAT : Heterogeneity that Matters for Welfare and Trade Ce projet, d’une durée de cinq ans, vise à concevoir et développer de nouvelles méthodes d’évaluation des gains issus de la libéralisation commerciale, qui prennent pleinement en compte l’hétérogénéité des entreprises dans toutes ses dimensions. Une nouvelle littérature – initiée au début des années 2000 en particulier par Marc [...]

55%: is the success rate for Sciences Po’s responses to ERC calls

55%: is the success rate for Sciences Po’s responses to ERC calls for proposals! The European Research Council was created in 2007 as part of the FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme) with the purpose of reinforcing the excellence, dynamism and creativity of European research. It finances exploratory research projects carried out by researchers recognised as academics of the highest order, working with small teams. ERC grants are highly selective, with a success rate of 13% in Europe across all fields – physical sciences and engineering, natural sciences and socio-economic sciences and [...]

Le Conseil européen de la recherche a attribué un « ERC Advanced Grant» à Paul-André Rosental

Le Conseil européen de la recherche a attribué un « ERC Advanced Grant» à Paul-André Rosental pour son projet de recherche «SILICOSIS – De la silicose aux maladies respiratoires chroniques : une approche par l’histoire de l’épidémiologie en France, en Europe et en Afrique australe, de 1900 à nos jours. ». La silicose , pathologie causée par l’inhalation de poussières de silice cristalline, s’avère être à ce jour la maladie professionnelle la plus mortelle de l’histoire. Contrairement à ce que certains peuvent penser, elle n’appartient pas à [...]

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to Paul-André Rosental

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to Paul-André Rosental for his research project « SILICOSIS – From Silicosis to Chronic Respiratory diseases: An approach via Epidemiological History (in France, Europe, Southern Africa, from the 1900s until today) ». ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains. This project deals with silicosis, a pathology caused by the inhalation of [...]

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Jenny Andersson

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Jenny Andersson for her research project : A political history of the future: knowledge production and future governance 1945-2010 Jenny Andersson is a research fellow CNRS at CERI. The ERC Starting Grants aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate a proper research team and to start conducting their independent research in Europe. Her research project – A political history of the future: knowledge production and future governance 1945-2010 – FUTUREPOL – studies [...]

Jean-Marc Robin reçoit un ERC Advanced Grant

  Jean-Marc Robin, Professeur au département d’économie, vient de recevoir un ERC* pour son projet de recherche : Dynamiques salariales, schémas d’appariement des travailleurs aux entreprises et évaluation des politiques publiques (WASP – Wage Dynamics, Sorting Patterns in Labour Markets and Policy Evaluation). L’objectif de ce projet est de développer des modèles de recherche d’emploi avec agents hétérogènes nous permettant de mieux comprendre les mécanismes de partage de rente à l’oeuvre dans le marché du travail. Il s’agit de [...]

Bruno Latour reçoit un ERC Advanced Grant

  Bruno Latour vient de recevoir un ERC* pour son projet de recherche : Enquête sur les modes d’existence – (AIME – An Inquiry into Modes of Existence). Cette enquête porte sur les modes d’existence et relève de l’anthropologie comparée. Elle vise à préciser ce que l’on couvre d’habitude du terme trop élastique de « modernisation« . Le développement du vaste domaine des études sur l’histoire des sciences et des techniques (science studies) a eu pour effet imprévu de profondément modifier la notion même [...]

Yann Algan’s research project on Culture, Cooperation and Economics has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant

Yann Algan’s project – TRUST : Culture, Cooperation and Economics – was among the only two projects that received ERC Grants awarded to French SSH Research in 2009. TRUST aims at looking at the links between culture of cooperation, economics and institutions, with causality running in both directions. The first step is to assess the causal effect of cooperation on economic decisions and happiness. Social attitudes such as trust seems a prerequisite to expand economic exchanges, in particular in modern societies characterized by the increased complexity of information and [...]