Plenary sessions

Murat Sertel Lecture  >>  Gabrielle DEMANGE

Gabrielle Demange is Directrice d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. She is the 2015 laureate of the silver medal of the French CNRS. She is also a fellow (since 1992) of the econometric society and a member of the Academia Europa and the American Academica of Art and Science. Her research focuses on multi-item auctions, matching, voting rules, coalition formation, networks, intergenerational risk sharing and financial intermediation.

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Vilfredo Pareto Lecture >>  Philippe AGHION

Assistant Professor at MIT from 1987 to 1989, research fellow at the CNRS from 1989 to 1990, economist at the BERD from 1990 to 1992, Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University from 1992 to 1996, Philippe Aghion was appointed Professor of Economics at UCL in 1996 where he remained until 2002. He then became Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard from 2002 to 2015. Since 2015 he has held the chair of "Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth" at the Collège de France, and is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. He is and has been editor of many prestigious academic journals and has been laureate of many distinctions like the bronze and silver medals of CNRS or the Yrjo Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association in 2001.

His work focuses on growth theory and the economics of innovation. With Peter Howitt, he developed the "Schumpeterian theory" of economic growth. For him, innovation is the basis of growth, and economic policies must therefore encourage this innovation. He has published an impressive number of papers in leading journals on this topic, but not only. He is also the author of many books and reports, and intervenes on a recurrent basis in political debates.

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