Master’s Projects
Projects I worked on during my Research Master’s in Economics at Sciences Po.
Papers
Summary
I replicate this paper on the drivers of blue-collar wage stagnation in the US in the 1970s–1990s, conducting robustness checks and extensions. In line with the authors, I find that the decline of standardized pay rates contributed significantly to wage stagnation. I further show that the decline was driven almost entirely by firms moving away from fully standardized pay structures, rather than from tenure-based pay.Modelling Class Attendance as a Game of Strategic Interactions between Students
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A game theory paper exploring the determinants of class attendance as a game of strategic interactions between students. In a final extension, we introduce a teacher as a special player, who uses students’ strategies to set her own.Presentations
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A one-hour presentation of this recent article, in which the authors discuss the issues with standard distributional tax analysis and propose a new framework to analyse the distributional implications of current taxes and tax reforms.New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis (Chari, Kehoe & McGrattan, 2009)
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We presented this paper’s critiques of New Keynesian models, and the limits to their use and interpretability for policy analysis.The Wealth Inequality of Nations (Pfeffer & Waitkus, 2021)