I am Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po Paris.
I am the recipient of a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a five-year project on “Campaign finance, Information and Influence: A Comprehensive Approach Using Individual-Level Data and Computer Sciences Tools” (PARTICIPATE) (legal information).
I am also co-director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)’s “Evaluation of Democracy” research group & a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (Economic History, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics Programs).
Le prix de la démocratie, Fayard, 2018
Prix Pétrarque de l’Essai France Culture-Le Monde.
English translation: The Price of Democracy, Harvard University Press, 2020.
NEW “The Heterogeneous Price of a Vote: Evidence from Multiparty Systems, 1993-2017” (with Yasmine Bekkouche and Edgard Dewitte)
Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
NEW “It Takes Money to Make MPs: New Evidence from 150 Years of British Campaign Spending” (with Edgard Dewitte)
NEW “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France” (with Anna Dagorret, Saumitra Jha and Pauline Grosjean)
R&R American Economic Review.
NEW “The Production of Information in an Online World” (with Nicolas Hervé and Marie-Luce Viaud)
Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87(5): 2126-2164.
NEW “Media Competition, Information Provision and Political Participation: Evidence from French Local Newspapers and Elections, 1944-2014”
Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 85.
NEW “Newspapers in Times of Low Advertising Revenues” (with Charles Angelucci)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11(3): 319-364.