SEMINARS

The role of probability in the sciences is a special focus of the Centre’s transdisciplinary research seminar, “The Probabilism Sessions”. Scientists present the development of the study of randomness in their disciplines, comparing definitions, methods and results. Augustin Cournot’s writings on probability theory serve as the source of inspiration.

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Thursday 15 February 2024 - 6:00 PM

Does Non-transferable Parental Leave Have an Effect on Employment?

Speaker:
Hélène Périvier (OFCE)


VISIOCONFERENCE

TUESDAY 24 OCTOBER 2023 - 6:00 PM

FISCAL POLICIES FOR INCLUSIVENESS: A REVIEW

Speaker:
Rossana Merola (International Labour Organization)
Commentator:
Hélène Périvier (OFCE)

The seminar will be largely based on Rossana Merola's text.

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Presentation - Rossana Merola

MONDAY 26 JUNE 2023 – 6:00 PM

WHAT IS THE LEGAL NATURE OF CRYPTO?

Speaker:
Pierre-Charles Pradier (Université Paris I)

Tuesday 7 MARCH 2023 – 6:00 PM

PUBLIC DEBT AS A MARKER OF FRENCH ECONOMIC HISTORY 1945–2021

Speaker:
Robert Boyer (Institute of the Americas/Centre Cournot)
Commentator:
Hans-Helmut Kotz (Goethe University / Harvard University)

WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2023, 3:00–4:00 PM (UK time)

Some Aspects of the Anderson Hamiltonian in 1 Dimension

Speaker:
Laure Dumaz (École Normale Supérieure (ENS)/Cournot)

VISIOCONFERENCE

TUESDAY 31 January 2023

Could the Cryptocurrency Crash Have Been Forecast?
Lessons from Multifractal Analysis

Speaker:
Vincent Clerc (Lusenn)

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Presentation - Vincent Clerc

18 October 2022

ECONOMISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS DEBATE CURRENCY MISALIGNMENTS

Sloan seminar organized with École polytechnique et l’Université de Californie à Irvine

A Time-Frequency Analysis of Oil Price Data
Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique) and Knut Sølna (University of California at Irvine)

Persistence of Current-Account Disequilibria and Real Exchange-Rate Misalignments
Blaise Gnimassoun (UL, BETA) and Valérie Mignon (UPN, EconomiX)

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Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique) and Knut Sølna (University of California at Irvine)

A Time-Frequency Analysis of Oil Price Data - 18-10-2022

Blaise Gnimassoun (UL, BETA) and Valérie Mignon (UPN, EconomiX)

Persistence of Current-Account Disequilibria and Real Exchange-Rate Misalignments - 18-10-2022

28 September 2022

The Impact of the Health Crisis on Local Government Finance

Participation in the seminar organized by the Observatoire des impacts territoriaux de la crise [Observatory of the Territorial Impact of the Crisis]

The Cournot Centre and the Banque Postale shared their thoughts on the effects of the health crisis on local government finance by presenting a cross-analysis of the geography of the crisis.

Jean-Philippe Touffut (Centre Cournot)
Luc-Alain Vervisch (Banque Postale)

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TUESDAY 19 APRIL 2022 6:00–8:00 PM

RUSSIA'S ECONOMY: FROM ECONOMIC RENT TO WAR – AND AFTER?

Speakers:
Jean-Philippe Touffut (Centre Cournot): The dynamics of the Russian economy since 2007: To what extent is the war part of an economic logic?
Julien Vercueil (Inalco-CREE, séminaire BRICs): Between war and sanctions: What horizon for the Russian economy?

This seminar is organized in partnership with the BRICs Seminar (Brazil, Russia, India, China: comparative approach and future of the world economy).

Auditorium Georges Dumézil
Inalco
Maison de la recherche
2, rue de Lille
75007 Paris
Métro Saint Germain des Près.

THURSDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2022 - 6:00 PM

ARE TAXES ON PRODUCTION RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GROWTH DEFICIT OF FRENCH COMPANIES?

The talk will be based on Nadine Levretto's research coauthored with Matthieu Chtioui (EconomiX).

Speaker:
Nadine Levratto (EconomiX, CNRS-Université Paris-Nanterre)

Commentator:
Matthieu Leprince (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Nadine Levratto (EconomiX, CNRS-Université Paris-Nanterre)


Présentation - Nadine Levratto - 17-02-2022

Matthieu Leprince (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)


Discussion
WEDNESDAY 19 JANUARY 2022 AT 6:00 PM

MACROECONOMIC MODELING IN THE FACE OF THE PANDEMIC

Presentation of the latest book by Robert Boyer : Une discipline sans réflexivité peut-elle être une science ? Épistémologie de l'économie (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2021)

Speaker:
Robert Boyer (Cournot Centre/Institute of the Americas)
Commentator:
Bernard Walliser (Paris School of Economics, EHESS)

THURSDAY 9 december 2021 AT 6:00 PM

THE TERRITORIAL DYNAMICS OF THE PANDEMIC CRISIS IN FRANCE

Speaker:
Olivier Portier (Observatoire des impacts territoriaux de la crise)
Commentator:
Nadine Levratto (EconomiX, CNRS-Université Paris-Nanterre)

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Olivier Portier (Observatoire des impacts territoriaux de la crise)


Presentation - Olivier Portier - 09-12-2021



Nadine Levratto and discussion (EconomiX, CNRS-Université Paris-Nanterre)
THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER 2021 AT 6:00 PM

HOW TO MONITOR DEBT

Speaker:
Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)
Commentator:
Hans-Helmut Kotz (Goethe University / Harvard University)

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)


Discussion
WEDNESDAY, 30 JUNE 2021 AT 6:00 PM

The Impact of Public Policies on Economic Activity: Micro / Macro Perspectives

Speakers:
Mathieu Plane (OFCE)
Céline Chicot (GMBA Walter Allinial)

Commentator:
Cédric Audenis (France Stratégie)

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Mathieu Plane (OFCE)


Presentation - Mathieu Plane - 30-06-2021



Céline Chicot (GMBA Walter Allinial)


Presentation - Céline Chicot - 30-06-2021



Cédric Audenis (France Stratégie)
TUESDAY, 8 JUNE 2021 AT 6:00 PM

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE PRODUCTIVE FABRIC IN FRANCE? FROM BRANCH TO COMPANY

Speakers:
Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)
Céline Chicot and Michel Gire (GMBA Walter Allinial)

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)




Presentation - Xavier Timbeau - 08-06-2021



GMBA Walter Allinial


Presentation - GMBA - 08-06-2021



Discussion
FRIDAY, 30 APRIL 2021 AT 6:00 PM

STATISTICS OF THE PANDEMIC: WHAT SHOULD WE BE LOOKING AT?

Speakers:
Josselin Garnier (École polytechnique)
Jean-Philippe Touffut (Centre Cournot)
Pierre Vallois (Université de Lorraine)

The data on the seroprevalence in the UK and in Switzerland will be presented in the talks.

VISIOCONFERENCE

See also the last statistics of the pandemic presented by Josselin Garnier on 21 July

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Jean-Philippe Touffut (Centre Cournot)


Josselin Garnier (École polytechnique)


Pierre Vallois (Université de Lorraine)


Jean-Philippe Touffut / Josselin Garnier


Discussion
THURSDAY, 22 APRIL 2021 AT 6:00 PM

THE METAMORPHOSES OF NEOLIBERALISM: THE ITALIAN CASE

Speaker:
Stefano Palombarini (Université Paris VIII)
Commentator:
Ekkehard Ernst (International Labour Organization)

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Stefano Palombarini (Université Paris VIII)


Ekkehard Ernst (International Labour Organization)


Discussion
WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL 2021

4TH MEETING - GIRLS AND MATHEMATICS: A BRIGHT EQUATION

Cournot Centre speaker:
Anne Gruz (Iggaak)

Within the framework of the "Girls and Mathematics" workshops, organized by the French associations Animath and Femmes & mathématiques, women mathematicians meet with high-school girls to discuss math as a path to success.

Hosted by the École Polytechnique

VISIOCONFERENCE

THURSDAY, 25 MARCH 2021 AT 6:00 PM

FROM UNEQUAL SOCIETIES TO UNJUST SOCIETIES: THE EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Speaker:
Giovanni Dosi (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Giovanni Dosi (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)


Discussion


Presentation - Giovanni Dosi - 25-03-2021

Wednesday 10 february 2021 at 6:00 pm

LE TEMPS RETROUVÉ DE L'ÉCONOMIE

Presentation of the book by Jean-Luc Gaffard, Mario Amendola et Francesco Saraceno (publisher: Odile Jacob), in the presence of the author:
Pierre Dockès (Université Lyon II)
Jean-Luc Gaffard (Université Côte d'Azur, OFCE)

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Pierre Dockès (Université Lyon II)


Jean-Luc Gaffard (Université Côte d'Azur, OFCE)


Discussion
WEDNESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2020

3RD MEETING - GIRLS AND MATHEMATICS: A BRIGHT EQUATION

Cournot Centre speaker:
Caroline Hillairet (ENSAE Paris)

Within the framework of the "Girls and Mathematics" workshops, organized by the French associations Animath and Femmes & mathématiques, women mathematicians meet with high-school girls to discuss math as a path to success.

VISIOCONFERENCE

Monday 30 November 2020 at 6:00 pm

The pandemic and managing the new trilemma: Health, economy and freedom – what solutions?

For the occasion of the release of Robert Boyer's book, Les capitalismes à l'épreuve de la pandémie, and in the presence of the author

Speakers:
Hans-Helmut Kotz (Goethe University / Harvard University)
Xavier Ragot (OFCE)
Robert Boyer (Cournot Centre / Institute of the Americas)

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Robert Boyer (Cournot Centre / Institute of the Americas)


Xavier Ragot (OFCE)


Hans-Helmut Kotz (Goethe University / Harvard University)


Discussion
WEDNESDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2020 AT 6:00 PM

The Coronavirus Crisis: Adjustments to Employment and Unemployment in Europe and the United States

Speakers:
Bernard Gazier (Université Paris I / Cournot Centre)
Eric Heyer (OFCE)

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Bernard Gazier (Université Paris I / Cournot Centre)


Presentation - Bernard Gazier - 07-10-2020



Eric Heyer (OFCE)


Presentation - Eric Heyer - 07-10-2020



Discussion
TUESDAY, 21 JULY 2020 at 6:00 PM

WHY HAS NATIONAL ACCOUNTING WITHSTOOD THE PANDEMIC (but not its diffusion models)?

Speakers:
Josselin Garnier (École polytechnique)
Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Josselin Garnier (École polytechnique)


Presentation - Josselin Garnier - 21-07-2020



Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)


Presentation - Xavier Timbeau - 21-07-2020



Discussion
Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 5:30 pm

EU REACTION TO THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: DISPERSED ORDER OR APPLIED SUBSIDIARITY?

Speakers:
Hans-Helmut Kotz (Goethe University; Harvard University)
Xavier Ragot (OFCE)

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Hans-Helmut Kotz (Université Goethe ; Université Harvard)


Presentation - Hans‐Helmut Kotz - 27-05-2020



Xavier Ragot (OFCE)


Discussion
Monday, 25 May 2020 at 5:30 pm

MODELLING THE PANDEMIC, HEALTH AND ECONOMIC RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS: ELEMENTS OF COMPARISON

Speakers:
Josselin Garnier (École polytechnique)
Jean-Philippe Touffut (Centre Cournot)

VISIOCONFERENCE

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Josselin Garnier (École polytechnique)


Presentation - Josselin Garnier - 25-05-2020



Discussion
Thursday, 7 May 2020 at 5:30 pm

THE CONCENTRATION OF ECONOMIC POWER

The current state of affairs and potential paths out of the crisis

Frédéric Marty (CNRS; Université Côte d’Azur)

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Frédéric Marty


Discussion
Thursday 23 April 2020

WHICH DATA FOR WHICH MODELS?

A look at employment

Speakers, in the order of their presentations:
Ekkehard Ernst (International Labour Organization)
Bernard Gazier (Université Paris I/Centre Cournot)

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Ekkehard Ernst


Bernard Gazier
Tuesday 21 April 2020 at 9 PM

UNCERTAINTIES REGARDING THE MODELLING OF THE PANDEMIC

Presentation of the Institut Pasteur's Report released on 20 April 2020:
"Estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France"
Henrik Salje, Cécile Tran Kiem, Noémie Lefrancq, Noémie Courtejoie, Paolo Bosetti, Juliette Paireau, Alessio Andronico, Nathanaël Hoze, Jehanne Richet, Claire-Lise Dubost, et al.

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Analysis of the model by Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique) - 04-21-2020

Thursday 16 April 2020

WHICH DATA FOR WHICH MODELS?

Diagnosis of the pandemic, diagnosis of the crisis

Speakers, in the order of their presentations:
Josselin Garnier, mathématicien (Ecole polytechnique)
Christophe Baillet, médecin et biologiste (Louis Pasteur Santé)
Xavier Timbeau, économiste (OFCE)
Robert Boyer (Institute of the Americas/Cournot Centre)

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Jossselin Garnier


Christophe Baillet


Xavier Timbeau


Robert Boyer
WedneSDAY 11 March 2020

2nd meeting - Girls and mathematics: a bright equation

Palaiseau

Cournot Centre speakers: Anne Gruz (Lusenn) and Laure Dumaz (CNRS/Ceremade)

Within the framework of the « Girls and Mathematics » workshops organized by the French associations Animath and Femmes & mathématiques, women mathematicians meet with high-school girls to discuss math as a path to success. For more information: https://portail.polytechnique.edu/diversite-inclusion/fr/rencontres-lx/journee-filles-et-maths-une-equation-lumineuse

ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE - PALAISEAU

Tuesday 4 february 2020

1st meeting - Girls and mathematics: a bright equation

Créteil

Cournot Centre speaker: Anne Gruz (Lusenn)

Within the framework of the « Girls and Mathematics » workshops organized by the French associations Animath and femmes & mathématiques, women mathematicians met with high-school girls to discuss math as a path to success. For more information: https://filles-et-maths.fr/2020/01/16/journee-20200204-upec/

Université Paris-Est Créteil

tuesday 28 JANUARY 2020 AT 9:00 AM

INITIATION TO PROBABILITY: MIDDLE-SCHOOL STUDENTS TEST GAMES OF CHANCE

Palaiseau

Speakers: Clément Martin (Collège des Petits Ponts, Clamart)
Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique)

As part of the Cournot programme for middle school students in Priority Education Networks (REP) in France, Josselin Garnier, Professor at the École Polytechnique, hosted, along with their mathematics teacher Clément Martin, a group of volunteer middle-school students from the Collège des Petits Ponts in Clamart for a morning dedicated to games of probability: the game of the maximum and board games.

ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE - PALAISEAU

To learn more

wednESDAY, 20 november 2019 AT 6:00 PM

Book launch: “Économie du travail et de l’emploi” by Bernard Gazier and Héloïse Petit

Paris

Speakers: Bernard Gazier (Université Paris I, Centre Cournot)
Héloïse Petit (Université de Lille)
Commentators : Philippe Askenazy (CNRS / ENS) and Jean-Marc Vittori (Les Échos)

Presentation of the book Économie du travail et de l'emploi (publisher: La Découverte). Available in bookstores beginning November 7.

UNIVERSITÉ PARIS I PANTHÉON-SORBONNE
Centre Panthéon
12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris
Salle 216

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Part 1


Part 2
THURSDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2019 AT 1:00 PM

FINANCIAL REGULATION OF ONLINE GAMES

Paris

Chair “Regulation of games” of the Université de Bordeaux

Starting at 1 :00 pm at the Université Panthéon-Assas

Programme:
Frédéric MARTY, CNRS (Université Côte d’Azur), researcher
Mathieu ROSENBAUM, École polytechnique, professor of quantitative finance and statistics
Tilen CUK, Université libre de Bruxelles, Centre Perelman, Ph.D., lawyer
Hugues BOUTHINON DUMAS, ESSEC, associate professor
Julien PILLOT, INSEEC, professor/researcher in economics and strategy
Jean-Baptiste VILA, Université de Bordeaux, associate professor, public law
Thomas DELAFOSSE, ARJEL, Supervision of markets committee
Francesco MARTUCCI, Université Paris 2, Institut de Droit comparé, Professor of public law
Jérôme CHACORNAC, Université Paris 2, associate professor of private law
Jean-Sébastien MARIEZ, Cabinet De Gaulle Fleurance et associés, lawyer

Tuesday, 2 july 2019 AT 6:00 PM

How to found a European Welfare State?

Paris

Speaker: Xavier Ragot (OFCE)
Commentator: Hans-Helmut Kotz (Goethe University; Harvard University)
Presentation of his book Civiliser le capitalisme (“Civilizing capitalism”).

MAISON DES SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference room, 6th floor

wednesday 15 MAy 2019 AT 6:00 PM

How to model the transformation of the age pyramid

Paris

Speaker: Sarah Kaakai (Le Mans University)
Commentator: Pierre-Charles Pradier (Université Paris I)

MAISON DES SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference room, 6th floor

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Sarah Kaakai (Le Mans Université)


Presentation - Sarah Kaakai - 15-05-2019



Pierre-Charles Pradier (Université Paris I)
THURSDAY, 11 APRIL 2019 AT 6:00 PM

PROBABILITY THEORY IN FRANCE: FROM DISDAIN TO TRIUMPH

Paris

Speaker: Martin Andler (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
Commentator: Laurent Mazliak (Sorbonne University)

MAISON DES SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference room, 6th floor

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Martin Andler (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)


Presentation - Martin Andler - 11-04-2019



Laurent Mazliak (Sorbonne Université)
THURSDAY, 28 MARch, 2019 at 6:30 PM

THE neoliberal TURNING POINT OF THE OECD

Paris

Speaker: Vincent Gayon (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Commentator: Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)

MAISON DES SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Room S/18

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Vincent Gayon (Université Paris-Dauphine) et Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)

Monday, 11 FEBRUARY, 2019 AT 2:00 pm

Initiation to Probability: Middle-School Students Take on Martingales

École polytechnique - Palaiseau

Speakers: Clément Martin (Collège des Petits Ponts, Clamart) and Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique)

As part of the Cournot programme for middle school students in Priority Education Networks (REP) in France, Josselin Garnier, Professor at the École Polytechnique, will host, along with their mathematics teacher Clément Martin, a group of 14 and 15-year-olds from the Collège des Petits Ponts in Clamart for an afternoon dedicated to games of probability: the game of double or quits, the game of martingales, and the game of the maximum.

To learn more

Tuesday, 4 December, 2018 at 11:00 am

How to Model the Trajectories of Debris in Space

École polytechnique - Palaiseau

Speaker : George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)

École Polytechnique campus
Conference room, CMAP laboratory
Laboratories building, Wing 0, top floor

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George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)

Presentation - George Papanicolaou - 04-12-2019

MONDAY, 08 OCTOBER, 2018 AT 6:00 PM

FOUNDATIONS AND CHALLENGES OF THE PLATEFORM ECONOMY

MAISON DES SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES - PARIS

Speakers: Robert Boyer (Institute of the Americas) and Michel Volle (Institut de l’iconomie)

MAISON DES SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference room, 6th floor

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Robert Boyer (Institut des Amériques)


Presentation - Robert Boyer - 08-10-2018



Michel Volle (Institut de l’iconomie)


Presentation - Michel Volle - 08-10-2018

THURSDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER, 2018 AT 5:00 PM

FRACTIONAL RANDOMNESS AND STATISTICS

ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE - PALAISEAU

5:00 pm: Charles Tapiero (New York University) – Fractional Randomness and Data Science
5:40 pm: Pierre Vallois (Université de Lorraine) – Fractional Granularity, Distributions and Brownian Bridge
6:10 pm: Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique) – Discussion / Question-and-answer period with the audience

Campus de l’Ecole Polytechnique
91128 Palaiseau

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Charles Tapiero (New York University)


Pierre Vallois (Université de Lorraine)


TUESDAY, 19 JUNE, 2018 AT 6:30 PM

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES FACE UP TO THE ABUNDANCE OF DIGITAL DATA

MAISON DES SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES - PARIS

Speakers: Julien Boelaert (SAGE, Université de Strasbourg, INED) and Étienne Ollion (SAGE, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS)
Commentator: Noureddine El Karoui (University of California, Berkeley)

MAISON DES SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference room, 6th floor

THURSDAY, 17 MAY, 2018 AT 6:00 PM

MODELING AND ESTIMATING PERSISTENCE AND REGIMES IN ECONOMIC TIME SERIES

OFCE - PARIS

Speakers: Knut Sølna (University of California at Irvine; Ecole Polytechnique) and Jean-Bernard Chatelain (University Paris I)

OFCE
10 PLACE DE CATALOGNE, PARIS XIVE

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Knut Sølna (University of California at Irvine; Ecole Polytechnique)


2018-05_Solna_Presentation.pdf



Jean-Bernard Chatelain (University Paris I)


2018-05_Jean-Bernard_Chatelain_Presentation.pdf

THURSDAY, 22 MARCH, 2018 AT 6:00 PM

EU COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY IN LIGHT OF THE GENEALOGY OF US ANTITRUST LAW

ESCP Europe - Paris

Speaker: Dina Waked (Sciences Po, Paris)
Commentators: Christophe Clerc (Cabinet Descartes) and Frédéric Marty (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis ; CNRS)

ESCP Europe
79 avenue de la République, 75011 Paris
Room 5119, building 5, 1st floor

Monday, October 16, 2017 At 6:00 pm

The End of Oil?

Maison des Sciences Économiques - Paris

Speaker: Antoine Halff (Columbia University)
Commentator: Aurélien Saussay (OFCE)

Maison des Sciences Économiques
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Room 114

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Antoine Halff (Columbia University)


Aurélien Saussay (OFCE)


WEDNESDAY 31 MAY 2017 AT 5 PM

Is the Slowdown in Productivity the Sign of the Exhaustion of Technical Change? Lessons from the French Automobile Industry since 1945

Maison des Sciences Économiques - Paris

Speaker: Michel Freyssenet (CNRS)
Commentators: Robert Boyer (Institut des Amériques ; Centre Cournot) and Bernard Gazier (Université Paris I ; Centre Cournot)

Maison des Sciences Économiques
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference Room, 6th Floor

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Michel Freyssenet (CNRS)


Thursday, 27 April 2017 - 6 pm

Political Economy of the French Crisis

Maison des Sciences Économiques - Paris

Speaker: Stefano Palombarini (Université Paris VIII)
Commentator: Gilles Raveaud (Université Paris VIII)

Presentation of his book L’illusion du bloc bourgeois (“The Illusion of the Bourgeois Bloc”)
co-authored with Bruno Amable.

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Stefano Palombarini (Université Paris VIII)


Gilles Raveaud (Université Paris VIII)


Thursday, 30 March 2017 - 6 pm

Can we learn something philosophical from experimental philosophy?

Maison des Sciences Économiques

Speaker: Pascal Engel (EHESS)

The debate about the relevance of experimental philosophy has been, in my view, misconceived. Both experimental philosophers and their "a priorist" opponents have assumed that the issue turns upon whether thought experiments can yield philosophical insight and contribute to conceptual analysis, the latter assuming that the answer is positive, the former that it is negative. Both parties over-emphasize the importance of thought experiments and counterfactual thinking in philosophy, as well as the role of intuitions. Philosophy is indeed mostly conceptual analysis, but thought experiments do not play a central role and the role of intuitions is not essential. Philosophy is first and foremost a matter of constructing theories and arguing for them; thought experiments can only make sense within this larger context.

Maison des Sciences Économiques
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Room 115


Thursday 23 February 2017 - 17.30

Modelling Wind Resource with Diffusion

CAMPUS DE L’ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE

Speaker: Alexandre Brouste (Université du Maine)
Commentator: Marie-Noëlle Bouin (Météo France), Josselin Garnier (Ecole polytechnique)

La gestion d'un parc éolien dépend fortement des prévisions de la vitesse et de la direction du vent sur le site. L'exploitation efficace et sûre d'un parc peut s’illustrer dans l’utilisation des moyens de stockage, la vente de la production sur les marchés d’énergies et les opérations d’entretien et de maintenance. Deux processus de diffusion (CIR et processus de diffusion Weibull marginal) sont présentés et évalués pour la prévision de la vitesse du vent à court terme. Ils peuvent constituer une entrée pour les problèmes de contrôle optimal apparaissant dans la gestion opérationnelle.

Drahi-X-Novation Center
Campus de l’Ecole polytechnique

avenue Coriolis - 91128 Palaiseau

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Alexandre Brouste (Université du Maine)


Presentation - Alexandre Brouste - 23-02-2017

Wednesday 1 February 2017, 6 pm

WHY EUROPE NEEDS A FUNDING MARKETS UNION

Paris

Speaker: Régis Breton (Banque de France)
Commentator: Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)

Following the financial crisis, the European Union took a number of initiatives to foster financial integration between member countries, notably through the Banking Union and more recently through the Capital Markets Union. Do Eurosystem central banks have any particular motivation for accompanying and encouraging this movement?

This seminar will propose a new mechanism by which the barriers to credit market integration challenge the viability and the desirability of a common currency. Credit market integration appears to be a necessary ingredient in order to reap fully the benefit of monetary integration, independently of the homogenous transmission of monetary policy and the asymmetrical shocks that are usually put forward in economic debate.

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 - PARIS

Economic Crises and the Lender of Last Resort:
Evidence from 19th Century France

Paris

Speaker: Vincent Bignon (Banque de France)
Commentator: Pierre-Charles Pradier (Université Paris I)

Maison des Sciences Économiques
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Room S/18


How can central banks best help to stabilize economic shocks? A historical case from France’s history will be presented. The crisis sparked by the arrival of the agricultural disease phylloxera in the 1860s shows the importance of the conditions of access to central bank loans in stabilizing the default rates of non-financial companies. The results suggest that it must guarantee easy access and a large array of guaranties in its operations with economic agents. What lessons in monetary policy can we draw from this study for the current period?

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Vincent Bignon (Banque de France)


Presentation Vincent Bignon 29-11-2016


Pierre-Charles Pradier (Université Paris I)


Monday, October 17, 2016

BUGS, TARIFFS AND COLONIES: FRANCE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN WINE TRADE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

Paris

Speaker: Giulia Meloni (University of Leuven)
Commentator: Ugo Gragnolati (Université Paris 1)

Maison des Sciences Économiques
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference Room, 6th Floor

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Giulia Meloni (Université de Louvain)

Presentation Giulia Meloni 17-10-2016



Ugo Gragnolati (Université Paris 1)

Presentation Ugo Gragnolati 17-10-16



Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 6 PM

WHAT FORCES GOVERN THE EVOLUTION OF CEO PAY IN FRANCE?

Paris

Speaker: Lionel Almeida (CNAM - LIRSA)
Commentator: Christophe Clerc Pinsent Masons

Maison des sciences économiques , Room 115
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital
Paris 13e


The pay of Chief Executive Officers (CEO) has rapidly increased over the last decades. How can this development be explained? Is it due to a competitive process used to attract and reward the best talent? Or should institutional factors be taken into account: managerial power, the weight of outsider scrutiny or financial market activism? The study presented in this seminar will bring to light the forces at play by looking at the evolution of CEO pay in listed companies in France since the implementation of new disclosure rules in 2001.

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JUNE 21, 2016 - 5:00 P.M.

GROWTH THEORY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: DEMATERIALIZING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Paris

Speaker: Antonin Pottier (CERNA – Ecole des Mines de Paris)

Maison des sciences économiques , Room 117
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital
Paris 13e


En analysant, à travers le prisme des théories de la croissance, la manière dont l'analyse économique orthodoxe fait intervenir l'environnement, ce séminaire met en évidence une tendance de l'analyse économique à se "dématérialiser", c'est-à-dire à ignorer les aspects physiques des relations économiques. Il décrit en particulier le tournant néo-classique avec la figure de Jevons, ainsi que la réponse des théoriciens de la croissance au rapport du club de Rome. Les bifurcations successives vers une analyse économique dématérialisée rendent compte de sa difficulté à prendre en compte les questions environnementales. Le séminaire tente enfin d'expliquer ce que signifie la "dématérialisation" de l'analyse économique et quelles en sont les raisons.

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Antonin Pottier (CERNA – Ecole des Mines de Paris)

Presentation Antonin Pottier 21-07-2016




26 May 2016 - 6pm

JEVONS AND THE DYNAMICS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION: LESSONS FROM THE PAST AND AN OUTLOOK INTO THE FUTURE

Paris

Speaker: Raimund Bleischwitz (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources)
Commentator: Aurélien Saussay (OFCE)

The seminar will discuss William Stanley Jevons’ contribution to the issues of energy and industrialization. His book on “The coal question”(1865/66) has been widely perceived as a starting point for critical debates about “limits to growth”, resource availability, the fallacies of efficiency, and understanding the carbon-based industrial system.

We will critically re-examine Jevons’ findings, how his ideas were born and conceptualized, and what lessons have been drawn. We will also look at recent international trends of using key resources and how they have been shaped by stages of industrialization. Finally, we will engage in an outlook on how such trends and innovations can contribute to the aims of the Paris COP on climate change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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13 April 2016 - 6 pm

“PROUVER ET GOUVERNER”: PRESENTATION OF A. DESROSIÈRES’S POSTHUMOUS BOOK

Paris 13e

This seminar is dedicated to the memory of Alain Desrosières, whom the Centre had the good fortune to have among its contributors on several occasions.
Emmanuel Didier (CNRS) , who coordinated the text and wrote the introduction, will present Alain’s posthumous book, “Prouver et gouverner”.

Michel Armatte (Centre Alexandre-Koyré), Bernard Guibert (INSEE), Thierry Martin (Université de Franche-Comté/Centre Cournot) and Laurent Mazliak (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) will present their own collaborations with special focus on the modernity and posterity of Alain’s works.

Maison des Sciences Économiques
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

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Emmanuel Didier (CNRS)


Michel Armatte (Centre Alexandre-Koyré)


Bernard Guibert (INSEE)


Thierry Martin (Université de Franche-Comté/Centre Cournot)


Laurent Mazliak (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)


11 March 2016

HAVE WE ENTERED A NEW ENERGY PRICE REGIME?

Paris

Speakers: Robert Boyer (Institute of the Americas), Raimund Bleischwitz (University College London), Han Wang (Sivienn), Jean-Philippe Touffut (Cournot Centre)

25 February 2016

The Role of Sector Dynamics in Financial Crises

Paris

Speaker: Yannick Kalantzis (Banque de France)
Commentator: Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)

M aison des Sciences Économiques
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Room 117

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Yannick Kalantzis (Banque de France)

Presentation Kalantzis 25-02-2016.pdf






Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)

Presentation Xavier Timbeau 25-02-2016.pdf

3 December 2015 - 6pm

THE IMPLICATIONS OF PRUDENTIAL REGULATION FOR COMPETITION AND CONSUMER POLICY IN THE BANKING SECTOR

ESCP Europe - Paris 11

Speaker: Jacob Seifert (University of St Andrews), Robert Solow Postdoctoral fellow 2015-16
Commentator: Robert Boyer (Institute of the Americas)

Presentation Jacob Seifert 3-12-2015

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ESCP Europe
79, Avenue de la République - 75011 Paris
Faure Amphitheatre, Building 3, 1st Floor


Métro : RUE DE SAINT-MAUR (LIGNE 3)
https://www.escpeurope.eu


Jacob Seifert (University of St Andrews)



Robert Boyer (Institute of the Americas)


1 June 2015

“Social Dialogue” and Varieties of Capitalism: A Long-term Analysis

Université Laval, Québec

International Conference on Work and Employment Studies (CIETE 2015 Québec)
Keynote Speaker: Bernard Gazier (Cournot Centre ; University Paris 1)

Presentation Bernard Gazier 1-06-2015 (808.3 KiB)

21 May 2015, 6 pm

Why Speech and Language Technology (almost) Works

Amphithéâtre Opale - Télécom ParisTech

Speaker: Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania)
Commentator: Edouard Geoffrois (French National Research Agency)

Presentation Mark Liberman_21-05-2015 (1.7 MiB)

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Mark Liberman , (University of Pennsylvania)



2 April 2015 – 6 pm

A Historical Analysis of Transnational Company Agreements

Maison des Sciences Economiques - 106-112 boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris XIIIe

Speaker: Udo Rehfeldt (Institut de recherches économiques et sociales)
Commentators: Arnaud Mias (University Paris-Dauphine) et Bernard Gazier (Cournot Centre; University Paris I)

Presentation Udo Rehfeldt 2-04-2015 (125.7 KiB)

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