Biography
Current Positions:
- Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE
- Researcher at the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST-INSEE)
- Programme Director at the Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn
- Fellow of CEPR in London
- Member of the Council of Economic Analysis
Previous Positions:
- Member of the Economic Commission of the Nation
- Member of the Council for Employment, Income and Social Cohesion
Training :
- Agrégation des Universités en Sciences Economiques
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master’s degree in Political Sociology from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master’s degree in economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master’s degree in Political Science, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master’s degree in Public Law, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Key Publications:
- Economic Denial with André Zylberberg, 2016
- “Is short-time work a good method to keep unemployment down?” with S. Carcillo, will be published in Nordic Economic Policy Review
- “Inherited Trust and Growth” with Y. Algan, American Economic Review, Vol. 100, December 2010: 2060-2092.
- “Regulation and Distrust” with P. Aghion, Y. Algan, and A. Shleifer, Quaterly Journal of Economics, August 2010, Vol. 125, No.3: 1015-1049
- “President Sarkozy’s Failed Reforms” with A. Zylberberg, Flammarion, 2009
- “Minimum Wage and Low Incomes: How to Reconcile Social Justice and Economic Efficiency?” Report of the Council of Economic Analysis n°79, with G. Ceci and A.Zylberberg, November 2008
- “La société de defiance” with Y. Algan, Edition rue d’Ulm, Collection du CEPREMAP, September 2007
Key areas of expertise:
Labour market; macroeconomics; Relationship between culture and economic performance