Awards

Chercheurs ayant rejoint le réseau Louis Bachelier Fellows en 2021

Nous félicitons les membres du Crest qui viennent de rejoindre le réseau Louis Bachelier Fellows.

Par ordre alphabétique, les membres du Crest de la section College Academic Fellows:

Louis Bachelier Fellows

2021
Stéphane Auray est macroéconomiste, Professeur des Universités en détachement à l’ENSAI et chercheur au CREST.
Valentin Patilea est professeur des universités à l’ENSAI, Directeur de la recherche et responsable du MSc in Statistics for Smart Data.
Pierre Picard est professeur d’économie et membre du Haut Collège de l’Ecole Polytechnique. Il est chercheur en économie du risque et de l’assurance.
Anna Simoni est chercheuse au CNRS, affiliée au CREST, et professeur de statistiques et d’économétrie à l’ENSAE et à l’Ecole Polytechnique.
Francesco Violante est chercheur en économie associé au CREST et chercheur international associé du CREATES.
Jean-Michel Zakoian est chercheur en économétrie de la finance, professeur détaché à l’ENSAE-CREST, responsable du laboratoire Finance-Insurance au CREST.

Années antérieures:

Patricia CRIFO, Ecole Polytechnique, Fellow depuis 2020
Mathieu ROSENBAUM, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Fellow depuis 2020
Caroline HILLAIRET, ENSAE & CREST, Fellow depuis 2019
Peter TANKOV, ENSAE, Fellow depuis 2019
Nicole EL KAROUI, Ecole Polytechnique, Fellow depuis 2016
Jean-Pierre PONSSARD, Ecole Polytechnique, Fellow depuis 2016
Nizar TOUZI, Ecole Polytechnique, Fellow depuis 2016

Béatrice Cherrier a reçu la Médaille de bronze du CNRS 2021

Béatrice Cherrier was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal 2021

The Bronze Medal recognizes the first works of researchers who are specialists in their field. This distinction represents an encouragement from the CNRS to pursue research that is already well underway and fruitful.

Béatrice Cherrier is an historian of economics, a CNRS researcher, affiliated with CREST, and an associate professor at École Polytechnique.

Through a comparative analysis of the lives and work of Gunnar Myrdal, Milton Friedman and Jacob Marschak, her dissertation, conceived as an inquiry, studied the coherence between the science and politics of economists.

Her overarching research agenda is to understand the perceived rise of applied economics since the 1970s. In collaboration with other researchers, she is investigating how the rise of computers has changed the practices of economists, how economists individual visions combined in the development of the MIT economics department.

Through an INET grant, Beatrice Cherrier was able to set up her project, which aims to compare the dynamics of various applied fields.

In more recent work, she is studying the rise of applied economics, such as the rise of empirical work in urban economics, public economics, and macro econometric modeling, beginning in the mid-1960s. She has also studied changes in the classification of economic publications over time.

« While macroeconomics largely shapes the public image of economists, I believe that their methods, institutional ecologies and incentive systems are increasingly affected by the rise of mechanism and market design. I’m trying to get a clearer picture of this trend. » Béatrice Cherrier

She is currently working on the applied models economists developed in central banks, in particular at the Bank of England.  She also studying the effects of the rise of applied economics on the status and representation of women in economics, and the credit they have received for their empirical work since World War II.

https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/medailles-de-bronze-2021
https://beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/about/

Thomas B Berrett Research Prize
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The Research Prize is awarded to Thomas B Berrett for outstanding contributions to understanding and developing nearest neighbour methods for classification, entropy and related functional estimation, and for highly original work on independence and conditional independence testing.

Of particular note is his paper on ‘The conditional permutation test for independence while controlling for confounders’ (with Y Wang, RF Barber and Rj Samworth, JRSBB, to appear).

More information here

Prof. Francis Kramarz Elected as Society of Labor Economists Fellow

June, 2019

Professor Francis Kramarz has been named a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). The honorary title is given to those who have made “contributions of unusual distinction” to the field of labor economics.

Among these contributions are Kramarz’s work with John Abowd (Cornell and Census) and Margolis (Paris I, CNRS) for the analysis of Linked Employer-Employee data and the so-called AKM model of compensation. This line of research has had an important impact on labor economics as well as fields where bipartite graphs are analyzed (students and schools, patients and hospitals…). Kramarz was also a pioneer in connecting labor markets outcomes with product market competition, including international trade, or in the study of the French minimum wage.

“I am honored to be elected a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists,” Kramarz said. “It is particularly significant to be recognized by the leaders in one’s primary field of research, the existing fellows of the Society.” Indeed, Kramarz is the second French labor economist to receive this distinction (with P.A. Chiappori being the first).

Kramarz, along with Professor Alexandre Mas (Princeton University), was elected by the current SOLE fellows for their career achievements, and their election was announced in the plenary session of the 2019 SOLE Meetings on May 3 in Arlington, Va.

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