Job Market 2026-2027: Meet the CES Candidates
Six PhD candidates from the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne are on the international academic job market this year. Their research spans international trade, political economy, urban economics, health economics, the economics of legal professions and industrial policy. They are available for interviews in the coming weeks.
Farida Abdelsalam – International Trade, Labor Economics, Corporate Social Responsibility
Farida uses firm-level data to study how firms adapt to globalization: how foreign sourcing affects their borrowing and occupational structure, and how domestic due diligence regulations shape their sourcing decisions.
Job market paper: Imported Inputs and Within-Firm Labor Organization · Supervisors: Maria Bas, Léa Marchal · Website
Iona Astier – Political Economy, Gender Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Iona studies gender discrimination in French politics, from candidates’ self-presentation to the treatment of women and men when they speak in the National Assembly, using AI methods on text and images and an experiment.
Job market paper: Are Women More Interrupted in Politics? · Supervisor: François Facchini · Website
Pol Cosentino – Urban Economics, Political Economy, Economic History
Pol studies how public interventions reshape cities and the welfare gains they generate, combining historical and geospatial data, natural experiments and quantitative spatial models.
Job market paper: Trade, Commuting and City Structure · Supervisor: Clément Bosquet · Website
Antonio Marchitto – Health Economics, Cultural Economics, Development Economics
Antonio works on social norms, health-seeking behaviour and the evaluation of public health policies.
Supervisor: Laetitia Duval · Website
Grégoire Massé – Political Economy of Legal Professions, Gender Economics, Applied Industrial Economics, Law and Economics
Grégoire studies the transformations of the legal professions, and how their feminization interacts with the competition policies that shape them.
Selected paper: How to (De)Regulate a Profession? Quantifying, Comparing, and Guiding Notarial Competition Policies through Regulatory Indicators · Supervisor: Camille Chaserant
Hannes Tepper – International Economics, Macro-Development, Industrial Organization
Hannes studies industrial policy and structural change in emerging and advanced economies, combining theoretical and empirical methods.
Job market paper: Targeting Industrial Policy – Evidence from Brazil · Supervisor: Ariell Reshef
Full profiles, CVs and job market papers are available on the CES Job Market Candidates page. Recruiters can contact us at PhDprogram-ces@univ-paris1.fr.