Research Policy Networks Sessions

RPN sessions at the CEPR Paris Symposium 2024

In this page, we have collated information about the CEPR Research Policy Networks (RPNs) paper and panel sessions scheduled during CEPR's Paris Symposium which takes place every December. The 2024 sessions below are listed in order of appearance on the programme.

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AI Session

 

Artificial Intelligence RPN Inaugural Workshop

 

Thursday,  12 December 2024, 08:30 - 17:30 

Collège de France – Site Ulm

 

Keynote lectures by Philippe Aghion and Stuart Russell. Research agenda introduction by RPN Leader Anton Korinek followed by short presentations by RPN members

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Fintech session

 

Fintech & Digital Currencies RPN session

 

Friday, 13 December, 14:45-15:45

Banque de France

 

Chair: Dirk Niepelt (University of Bern and CEPR)

  • Do cryptocurrencies matter? Bruno Biais (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR) with Jean Charles Rochet and Stéphane Villeneuve

Discussant: Katrin Tinn (McGill University and CEPR)

  • The role of central bank digital currency in an increasingly digital economy: Benjamin Hemingway (Bank of England)

Discussant: Giovanni Dell'Ariccia (IMF and CEPR)

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EFA Session

 

 European Financial Architecture RPN Session

 

Saturday, 14 December, 09:00 - 10:00

Sciences Po, 28 Rue Saints Pères, 75007 Paris

 

Chair: Jan-Pieter Krahnen (SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR)

  • Assortative Matching, Interbank Markets, and Monetary Policy: Rustam Jamilov (University of Oxford) with Christian Bittner, Farzad Saidi
  • Do Voluntary Pledges Make Loans Greener? Xander Hut (Goethe University Frankfurt) with Tobias Berg, Robin Döttling, Wolf Wagner
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EEP Session

 

European Economic Policy RPN Session

 

Saturday, 14 December, 10:00 - 11:00

Sciences Po, 28 Rue Saints Pères, 75007 Paris

 

Chair: Luc Laeven (ECB and CEPR)

  • Fiscal Consolidations: Myths and Reality: Roberto Perotti (Universitá Bocconi and CEPR) with Luca Sala
  • Monetary Unions with Heterogeneous Fiscal Space: Adrien Couturier (LSE) with Marco Bellifemine and Rustam Jamilov
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Geoecon session

 

Geoeconomics RPN Session

 

Saturday, 14 December, 13:45 - 14:45

Sciences Po, 28 Rue Saints Pères, 75007 Paris

 

Chair: Moritz Schularick (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Berlin and CEPR)

  • Seizing central bank assets? Isabel Vansteenkiste (ECB and CEPR), with Tobias Krahnke, Arnaud Mehl and Massimo Ferrari Minesso
  • Trade Sanctions: Dzhamilya Nigmatulina (HEC Lausanne) with Konstantin Egorov, Vasily Korovkin and Alexey Makarin
  • Measuring Shortages Since 1900: Dario Caldara (Federal Reserve Board) with Matteo Iacoviello and David Yu
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Household Finance RPN Session

 

Monday, 16 December, 09:00-10:00

Banque de France

 

Chair: Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR)

  • Learning about Housing Cost: Theory and Evidence from the German House Price Boom: Julia Le Blanc (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) with Fabian Kindermann, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider
  • Climate Transition Beliefs: Stefano Ramelli (University of St Gallen) with Marco Ceccarelli
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International lending session

 

International Lending and Sovereign Debt RPN Session 

 

Monday, 16 December, 10:00-11:00

Banque de France

 

  • Original Sin Redux: Role of Duration Risk: Valentina Bruno (American University Washington DC and CEPR) with Carol Bertaut and Hyun Song Shin
  • Seniority and Sovereign Default: The Role of Official Multilateral Lenders: Adrien Wicht (European University Institute) Hidden Debt Revelations Sebastian Horn (World Bank) with David Mihalyi, Philipp Nickol and César Sosa-Padilla
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Media plurality session

 

Media Plurality RPN Session

 

Wednesday, 18 December, 13:45-14:45

Sciences Po, 28 28 Rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris

 

Chair: Julia Cagé (Sciences Po and CEPR)

  • Media Consolidation: Nicola Mastrorocco (University of Bologna) with Gregory Martin, Josh Mccrain and Arianna Ornaghi
  • Beliefs About Political News in the Runup to an Election: Charles Angelucci (Columbia University) with Michel Gutmann and Andrea Prat
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Competition Policy RPN Session 

 

Wednesday, 18 December, 14:45-15:45

Sciences Po, 28 28 Rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris

 

Chair: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London and CEPR)

  • Labor Market Collusion: Louis Pape (Ecole Polytechnique)
  • Self-preferencing, Quality Provision, and Welfare in Mobile Application Markets: Xuan Teng (LMU Munich)
  • Assessing EU Merger Control through Compensating Efficiencies: Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and CEPR), with Pauline Affeldt, Klaus Gugler and Joanna Piechucka
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Preventing conflict Session

 

 Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace RPN Session 

 

Wednesday, 18 December, 14:45-15:45

Sciences Po, 28 28 Rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris

 

  • Paper title TBC: Matteo Cervellati (Universitá di Bologna and CEPR)
  • Predicting Autocratization: A New NLP-based Approach: Hannes Mueller (Barcelona School of Economics and CEPR)
  • Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction; Eleonora Guarnieri (Bristol University), with Ana Tur-Prats

Chairs and Presenters

Bruno Biais

Professor of Finance and Economics Hec Paris; Associate Researcher Toulouse School of Economics

Jan-Pieter Krahnen

Professor of Finance emeritus Goethe University Frankfurt; Founding Director emeritus Leibniz Institute For Financial Research (SAFE)

Luc Laeven

Director-General of the Directorate General Research European Central Bank

Moritz Schularick

President Kiel Institute For The World Economy; Professor of economics Sciences Po Paris; Director & Professor of Economics University Of Bonn

Isabel Vansteenkiste

Visiting professor College Of Europe; Director General for International and European Relations European Central Bank

RPN Member, European Economic Policy / RPN Member, Geoeconomics

Michael Haliassos

Director of CEPR RPN on Household Finance Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor and Chair for Macroeconomics and Finance Goethe University Frankfurt

Julia Le Blanc

Economist and Project Leader Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

RPN Member, Household Finance

Stefano Ramelli

Faculty member Swiss Finance Institute; Assistant Professor University Of St Gallen

Sebastian Horn

Economist Development Research Group, The World Bank

RPN Member, International Lending and Sovereign Debt

Valentina Bruno

Arlene R. and Robert P. Kogod Eminent Professor of Finance American University

Julia Cage

Professor in the Department of Economics Sciences Po Paris

Nicola Mastrorocco

Centre for Economic Policy Research; Assistant Professor of Economics Assistant Professor of Economics Trinity College Dublin; Affiliated

RPN Member, Media Plurality

Charles Angelucci

Assistant Professor, Finance and Economics Division, Columbia Business School Columbia University; Assistant Professor of Applied Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Assistant Professor of Applied Economics MIT Sloan School of Management

RPN Member, Media Plurality

Klaus Gugler

Professor of Economics Wu Vienna University Of Economics And Business

Oliver Vanden Eynde

Senior Researcher French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS); Chaired Professor Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Fellow, Political Economy / RPN Member, Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace / Fellow, Development Economics

Matteo Cervellati

Research Fellow Iza Institute Of Labor Economics; Director of the Department of Economics University Of Bologna

Hannes Mueller

Programme Director of the M.Sc. Data Science for Decision Making Barcelona School Of Economics; Tenured Researcher Institute for Economic Analysis

Anton Korinek

Visiting Fellow Brookings Institution; Research Associate National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER); Professor, Department of Economics and Darden School of Business University Of Virginia

Benjamin Jones

Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy. Kellogg School Of Management, Northwestern University

RPN Member, Artificial Intelligence

Philippe Aghion

Professor Collège De France; The Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth Insead; Visiting Professor London School of Economics and Political Science

Gino Gancia

Professor of Economics University Of Milano Bicocca

Anna Salomons

Professor of Automation in the Labor Market Tilburg University; Instituut Gak Endowed Professor and Professor of Employment & Inequality Utrecht University

RPN Member, Artificial Intelligence

Jakub Growiec

Professor of Economics Warsaw School Of Economics

RPN Member, Artificial Intelligence

Sam Manning

Senior Research Fellow Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)

RPN Member, Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Susskind

Fellow in Economics, Balliol College University Of Oxford

RPN Member, Artificial Intelligence

Below you will find the sessions from the CEPR Paris Symposium in 2023, in order of appearance in the programme.

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Central Bank Communication RPN Session

 

Friday,  8 December 2023, 10:00 - 11:00 

Banque de France

 

Chair: Michael McMahon (University of Oxford and CEPR)
 

  • Monetary Communication Rules, *Laura Gáti (European Central Bank), with Amy Handlan
  • The Term Structure of Inflation Forecasts Disagreement and Monetary Policy Transmission, *Fan Dora Xia (Bank for International Settlements), with Alessandro Barbera, and Sonya Zhu

*Presenter

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Fintech & Digital Currencies RPN Panel: Will the digital euro take off?
 
Friday, 8 December, 10:00-11:00

Banque de France

Chair: Dirk Niepelt (University of Bern and CEPR)

Panellists:

  • Katrin Assenmacher (ECB)
  • Peter Bofinger (University of Wuerzburg and CEPR)
  • Rod Garratt (UCSB and BIS)
  • Alexandre Stervinou (Banque de France)
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Household Finance RPN Session

 

Chair: Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt, and CEPR)

 

Saturday, 9 December
Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris
 
9:00-11:00

 

10:00-11:00
  • A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Model with Wealth, *Nuno Miguel Marques da Paixao (Bank of Canada), with Elisa Giannone, Qi Li, Xinle Pang
  • Household Portfolios, Monetary Policy and Asset Prices, *Ciaran Rogers (IIES  Stockholm), with Matteo Leombroni

 

12:20-13:30: Household Finance Poster Session

Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Implications of Climate Change and Adaptation on Housing, Income and Wealth, *Yasmine van der Straten (University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute) 

*Presenter

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European Financial Architecture RPN Panel: "banks' (excess) profitability when taking over a peer institution in resolution

 

Saturday, 9 December, 11:20 - 12:20

Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris


Chairs: Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and CEPR) and Jan Pieter Krahnen (SAFE and CEPR)

Do "white knights" make excessive profits in bank resolution

Discussants: Benoît Coeuré (Autorité de la Concurrence) and Elke König (Former Chair, SRB)

*Presenter

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European Economic Policy RPN Panel: Rebuilding an Agenda for Europe
 
Saturday, 9 December 2023, 14:30 - 15:30 

Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris

Chair: Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times) 

  • Marco Buti (EUI)
  • Giancarlo Corsetti (EUI and CEPR)
  • Hélène Rey (London Business School and CEPR)
  • Rolf Strauch (ESM)
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Policy Panel on Competition Policy
 
Monday, 11 December 2023, 18:00 – 19:00 

Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris


Chair: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College, London and CEPR)

  • Benoît Cœuré (Autorité de la Concurrence)
  • Jean Tirole (TSE and CEPR)
  • Isabelle de Silva (Conseil d'État)
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Inequality & the Role of Firms RPN Session, joint with the Labour Economics Programme
 
Tuesday, 12 December, 9:00-12:20 and 13:30-14:30

Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris

 

 
9:00-10:00

Chair: Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford, and CEPR)

  • Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Farmer Conditions in the Coffee Value Chain, *Rocco Macchiavello (LSE) 
  • Management Practices and  Firm Performance Through the Boom and Bust of an Economy, *Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich),

 

10:00-11:00

Chair: Imran Rasul (UCL, IFS, and CEPR)

  • Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market, *Sydnee Caldwell (UC Berkeley), with Ingrid  Haegele, and Jörg Heinin
  • The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France, *David Thesmar (MIT Sloan and CEPR), with Elio Nimier David, and David Sraer

 

11:20-12:20 

Chair: Mark Stabile (INSEAD, and CEPR)

  • Bidding for Talent: A Test of Conduct in a High-Wage Labor Market, *Benjamin Scuderi (University of Michigan), with Nina Roussille
  • Matching Workers’ Skills and Firms’ Technologies Part I: Bundling, *Francis Kramarz (CREST-ENSAE and CEPR) 

 

13:30 - 14:30

Chair: Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford, and CEPR)

*Presenter

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Spatial Disparities & Policy RPN Session

 

Tuesday, 12 December, 13:30 - 14:30

Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris

 

  • Productivity differences across European cities: adding capital into the picture, *Helen Simpson (University of Bristol and CEPR), with Paul Brandily, Gilles Duranton, and Henry Overman
  • Regional disparities across OECD regions, trends and policy responses, *Jose Enrique Garcilazo (OECD)

*Presenter

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Geoeconomics and International Lending & Sovereign Debt RPNs joint Session

 

Tuesday, 12 December, 14:30 - 15:30 

Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris

 

Chair: Moritz Schularick (Sciences Po, Kiel Institute and CEPR) 

  • Trade Uncertainty and US Bank Lending, *Linda Goldberg (Federal  Reserve Bank of New York and Distinguished Fellow, CEPR) 
  • The External Costs of War, *Gernot Mueller (University of Tübingen and CEPR)
  • Exorbitant Privilege and Economic Sanctions, *Beata Javorcik (EBRD and CEPR)

*Presenter
 

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Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace RPN Session 
 
Tuesday, 12 December, 13:30-15h30

Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris

13:30-14:30

 

Chair: Dominic Rohner (Université de Lausanne and CEPR)

 

  • Digging Deeper: Mining  Companies and Armed Bands in the DR, *Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard University and CEPR), with Davide Zufacchi
  • The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from the African Diaspora, *Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University of London and  CEPR), with Marco Manacorda, and Jacopo Ponticelli

 

14:30-15:30

 

Chair: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard University and CEPR)

 

  • Dear Brothers and Sisters:  Pope's Speeches and the Dynamics of Conflict in Africa, *Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon and CEPR)
  • The Sword Versus the Holy  Spirit: Persistent Effects of Crusade and Pilgrimage  Routes, *Dominic Rohner (Université de Lausanne and CEPR), with Tommaso Colussi, Andrea Tesei, and Felipe Valencia Caciado

*Presenter

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Media Plurality RPN Session
 
Wednesday, 13 December, 9:00-11:00

Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris

 

Chair: Julia Cagé (Sciences Po & CEPR)

 

  • Hosting Media Bias:  Evidence from the Universe of French Television and Radio Shows, 2002-2020, *Camille Urvoy (University of Mannheim), with Julia Cagé, Moritz Hengel and Nicolas Hervé 
  • Dar-Right Ownership in the  Printed Press and Public Policy, *Sophie Hatte (ENS Lyon) with Mathieu Couttenier, Thomas Taylor and Stephanos Vlachos
  • Political Economy of Social Media, *Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University of London and CEPR), with Ruben Durante and Filipe Campante

*Presenter

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