The  2010/2011 postdoctoral fellows are:

Majid Al-Sadoon (University of Cambridge)
Celia Badillo Bautista (University of Essex)
Elodie Djemai (Toulouse School of Economics)
Selin Özyurt (Université Paris IX)
Judit Vall Castello (Maastricht Graduate School of Governance)

8 July 2010, 6PM
Speaker: Alexander Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Commentators: Jean-Marie Pierrel (Université de Nancy-II) and Franck Varenne (Université de Rouen / C.N.R.S.)

The Cournot Centre for Economic Studies offers every year five Robert Solow postdoctoral bursaries of 24,000 Euros each. The Scientific Committee chooses postdoctoral fellows based on their applications.

Recipients may undertake postdoctoral research at the host institution of their choice. The Cournot Centre itself does not act as a hosting institution for postdoctoral researchers, only as a funding institution.

Candidates MUST have been awarded their Ph.D. between 1 October 2009 and 1 October 2011. The fellowship is for 12 months and is not intended to supplement other research grants or a full-time salary.

Please find the application form hereunder.

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Three (3) copies of the application form should be sent to the following address:

Cournot Centre for Economic Studies
17, rue Gazan
75014 Paris
France

Letters must be postmarked no later than February 11, 2011.  Applications by fax or email will not be accepted.  Applications must not be more than six (6) pages recto in length, including the cover page, and may be typed in a font size no smaller than 12, or handwritten in black ink.  Additional sheets should not be added.

The successful applicants for 2010-2011 academic year will be notified by 29 April 2011.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions!

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Prisme N°18

André Orléan

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The current financial crisis stems from a massive under-estimation of mortgage risks, particularly of the subprime kind. This essay seeks to understand the origins of such an error. Economists most often advance the perverse incentive structure as the cause. This is a valid point, but it only provides a partial explanation. This text explores another hypothesis: the difficulty inherent in predicting the future when agents face uncertainty of a Knightian or Keynesian type. It seeks to show that economic uncertainty is of this type. Probability calculus cannot be applied to it. For that reason, economic uncertainty evades the only available method of prediction: statistical inference. Consequently, in a Knightian world, there is no such thing as an objective evaluation of risk. This point is illustrated by examining the case of the US presidential elections of 2000.

27 May 2010 – 6 pm
Speaker: Jean-Bernard Chatelain (University of Paris-I)
Commentator: Xavier Ragot (Banque de France)

18 March 2010 – 6 pm
Speaker: Thierry Martin (IHPST, University of Besançon)
Commentator: Thomas Heams (Agroparistech)

What’s right with macroeconomics?

When we began to think about this outline, we realized that the Center had generally stayed away from issues of (more or less) pure theory. This was probably a good idea; neither our purpose nor our audience would be happy with screens full of equations. So we have tried to cull from various suggestions the outline of a conference on basic issues in macroeconomics that can be discussed in our style.

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Thursday, 2 December

1. A Panorama of Concepts and Approaches
Jean-Bernard Chatelain (Université Paris-I)
Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)

2. Alternative Research Programmes in Macroeconomics
George Akerlof (University of California, Berkeley, to be confirmed)
Xavier Ragot (CNRS)

Friday, 3 December

3. Rethinking the Role of Fiscal Policy
Giancarlo Corsetti (European University Institute, Florence)
Volker Wieland (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt)
Paul de Grauwe (Université de Louvain)

4. Round Table: Where Do We Stand? chaired by Robert Solow (MIT)
Wendy Carlin (University College, London)
Robert Gordon (Northwestern University)
Michael Wickens (University of York)

21 January 2010 – 6 pm
Speaker: Bernard Walliser (E.H.E.S.S.)
Commentator: Mikaël Cozic (E.N.S.)

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Part 1/2: Bernard Walliser

Part 2/2: Discussion by Mikaël Cozic

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RETHINKING FISCAL POLICY FROM A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE

Chaired by Robert Solow (M.I.T.)

Organized with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

19 October 2010, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.