November 5, 2025 | Finance-Insurance
Are citations the best way to judge business school research?
October 21, 2025 | Economics
Clément Montes, doctorant au CREST-École polytechnique, présente la Firm Sanction DataBase (FSDB), un nouvel outil pour analyser les sanctions économiques ciblant les entreprises et leurs impacts politiques.
September 15, 2025 | Economics
Dans L’Express, Giovanni Ricco, analyse le rôle du TPI, l’instrument de protection de la transmission de la BCE, conçu pour stabiliser les marchés de la dette et garantir la bonne transmission de la politique monétaire en Europe.
October 13, 2025 | Economics
Béatrice Cherrier, historienne de l’économie et directrice de recherche au CREST-CNRS (et à l’École polytechnique), a pris part à l’émission « Entendez-vous l’éco ? » pour commenter l’attribution du Prix Nobel d’économie 2025.
October 13, 2025 | Sociology
Un article publié dans Libération revient sur les travaux de Samuel Rufat, géographe au CREST et spécialiste des risques urbains, consacrés à la simulation d’une crue majeure de la Seine à Paris.
October 13, 2025 | Sociology
Sociologist Étienne Ollion (CREST-CNRS, École polytechnique) analyses France’s political situation in major European media including Ö1, Deník N, and Politiken.
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NovemberMacroeconomics, SeminarsBoyang MU (CREST) “Incentives and Reputation in Delegated Staking Protocols”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM10
NovemberSeminars, StatisticsMarc JOURDAN (EPFL)
Advances in Pure Exploration in Bandits: Non-Asymptotic, Private, and Structured
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM12
NovemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsVincenzo DENICOLO (Bologna)
“Transparency and competition for influence”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM19
NovemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsFrederic KOESSLER (HEC)
“A belief-based approach to signaling (with Marie Laclau and Tristan Tomala...
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM20
NovemberFinance-Insurance, Mathematical Finance, SeminarsSara SVALUTTO (University of Verona) “t.b.a.”
10:00 AM - 11:00 PM20
NovemberFinance-Insurance, Mathematical Finance, SeminarsJulio BACKHOFF (University of Vienna) “t.b.a.”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM26
NovemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsHéloïse CLOLERY (Bocconi)
“The Effects of Quotas on Team Decisions: Prior Biases and Learning”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM27
NovemberFinance-Insurance, Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance, SeminarsArmon REZAI (Institute for Political Economy of Public Policy ) “Intergenerational welfare effects of emissions targets in small open economies”
10:00 AM - 11:00 PM27
NovemberFinance-Insurance, Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance, SeminarsHens THORSTEN (UZH ) “t.b.a.”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM27
NovemberSeminars, SociologyOscar STUHLER (Northwestern University)
“Agency Expressions in Organizational Communication”
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM02
DecemberApplied Seminar, SeminarsMichael SIEGENTHALER (ETH ZÜRICH)
“t.b.a.”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM03
DecemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsMartin VAETH (PSE)
“TBA”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM04
DecemberFinance-Insurance, Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance, SeminarsMarkus LIEPPOLD (UZH ) “t.b.a.”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM10
DecemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsGarima SHARMA (Northwestern)
“TBA”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM11
DecemberFinance-Insurance, SeminarsAmedeo ANDRIOLLO (Université Paris-Dauphine PSL) “Causality versus Serial Correlation: an Asymmetric Portmanteau Test”
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM11
DecemberFinance-Insurance, SeminarsPierluigi VALLARINO (Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano Switzerland) “A General randomized test for alpha”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM11
DecemberSeminars, SociologyMads MEIER JAEGER (University of Copenha...
“Breadth, Depth, or Consecration? Omnivorousness Tastes in Music and Perceptio...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM16
DecemberThere are no upcoming events at this time.- 18
November
Publications
statistics
Large Language Models as Markov Chains
Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably efficient across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and well beyond them. However, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the LLMs' generali ...
ArXiv Stat, 2025
sociology
Uninvited Protagonists: The Networked Agency of Venezuelan Platform Data Workers
Data workers use digital platforms to perform on-demand online tasks for technology industries, in a competitive landscape that extends beyond national borders and drives down remunerations. Using a m ...
New Technology, Work and Employment, 2025
sociology
The role of digital platforms in market coordination through quality valuations. The case of restaurants
How do digital platforms affect coordination in the restaurant market? In particular, how do they reshape firms’ positions in the quality space and their dependence on both consumers’ valuations a ...
European Journal of Sociology, 2025
sociology
Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America
This article examines the organisational and geographical forces that shape the supply chains of artificial intelligence (AI) through outsourced and offshored data work. Bridging sociological theories ...
New Political Economy, 2025