Etienne WASMER

• Full Professor, Sciences Po Paris
• Researcher, OFCE and Crest
• Address: Departement d'Economie, 28 Rue des Saint-Pères, 75007 Paris, France
• Email: etienne.wasmer(at)sciences-po.fr
• Facebook: Etienne.Wasmer

Short bio

• Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris.
• Co-founder and co-director of LIEPP (Interdisciplinary Research Center for the Evaluation of Public Policies) since Sept. 2011.
• Elu au Conseil de Direction de l'IEP de Paris (titulaire depuis mars 2012)
  Membre du Conseil d'Administration de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Morales et Politiques (depuis mars 2012)
• Research fellow, CEPR (Londres), Research fellow, IZA (Bonn).
• Phd in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Other activity

• Co-editor, Labour Economics: The Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists (Elsevier). 
• Member of the Council of Economic Advisors, Prime Minister (2013-)
• Personnalité associée au Conseil Economique, Social et Environnemental (2012-)
• Member of "expert group" on Minimum Wage, France (2008-2012).
• Head of graduate studies in economics, Sciences Po Paris  (2008-2011)
• Member of executive committee, Association Française de Science Economique
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Research

• Search theory, discrimination, human capital, urban economic theory.
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• Papers and citations: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gxcce-gAAAAJ&hl=en
   
• New: The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Etienne Wasmer, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 5(1): 193-221.http://
  www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/mac.5.1.193

New: Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Etienne Wasmer

New: EPL and capital-labor ratios, Alexandre Janiaka and Etienne Wasmer, 2012

• New: The unemployment rate gap between ethnic groups: the role of frictions on housing and labor markets, Laurent Gobillon, Peter Rupert, Etienne Wasmer, 2012

• New: Evaluation des politiques publiques Faut-il de l'interdisciplinarité?, Etienne Wasmer, 2012
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• OTHER RECENT WORKING PAPERS: see the full publication page

• Alexandre Janiak (assistant Prof., Univesidad de Chile since 2007)
• Nicolas Nadeau-Petrosky (assistant professor, University Carnegie-Mellon, Sept. 2009-)
• Quentin David (post-doctoral Fellowhsip, Univ. of Luxembourg starting on Sept. 2009)

• Dilan Ölcer (Sciences-Po, visiting Harvard University 2009-2010)
• Nicolas Lepage-Saucier (Sciences-Po, UQAM, visiting Berkeley 2010-2011, visiting UQAM 2011-2012)
• Etienne Lalé (Sciences-Po, Ecole Normale Supérieure - Ulm, visiting Berkeley 2011-2012)
• Meradj Mortezapouraghdam (Sciences-Po)

• Education

• PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science
• MSc. Analyse et Politique Economique, DELTA
• Ecole Polytechnique, France