I am a Professor at the Economics Department in 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 a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (Economic History, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics Programs) and at the CESifo Research Network.
I am the leader of the CEPR’s Research and Policy Network on “Media Plurality”.
I received the Best Young French Economist Award in 2023 and the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2025.
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789-2022.
Avec Thomas Piketty, Le Seuil, 2023.
English translation: A History of Political Conflict. Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789-2022. Harvard University Press, 2025.
NEW “It Takes Money to Make MPs: New Evidence from 150 Years of British Campaign Spending” (with Edgard Dewitte)
The Journal of Economic History, Accepted.
NEW “Political Inequality“
Annual Review of Economics, 2024, 16: 455-490.
NEW “Firm Donations and Political Rhetoric: Evidence from a National Ban“ (with Caroline Le Pennec-Çaldichoury and Elisa Mougin)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16(3): 217-56.
NEW “Media Competition and News Diets” (with Charles Angelucci and Michael Sinkinson)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16(2): 62-102.
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)
American Economic Review, 2023, 113(7): 1888-1932.
NEW “The Heterogeneous Price of a Vote: Evidence from Multiparty Systems, 1993-2017” (with Yasmine Bekkouche and Edgard Dewitte)
Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206.
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.
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.