Projects
Welcome to my projects page. You will find here a list of projects I worked on during my Master’s degree:
Replication of Wage stagnation and the decline of standardized pay rates (Massenkoff & Wilmers, 2023) : For my Labor Economics class (taught by Prof. Pierre Cahuc), I chose to replicate, conducting robustness checks and producing extension, this paper on the drivers of blue-collar wage stagnation in the 1970s-1990s in the US.
Presentation of Distributional Tax Analysis in Theory and Practice: Harberger Meets Diamond-Mirrlees (Saez and Zucman, 2024), with Alexandra Anghel : In Public Economics class (taught by Prof. Stefan Pollinger) we made a one-hour presentation of this very recent article by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. The authors present issues associated with usual distributional tax analysis and propose a brand new framework, to analyse current-tax and tax reform distributional implications. The original paper can be found here
Macroeconomics short presentation of “The Wealth Inequality of Nations” (Pfeffer and Waitkus, 2021), with Jean Fontalirand : We presented two key insights from this empirical paper, which displays an absence of correlation between income and wealth inequality and concentration at the national level, between developed countries, in the data.
Microeconomics group project, Game Theory : Modelling class attendance as a game of strategic interactions between students : In our Microeconomics 2 class (taught by Prof. Emeric Henry, Sciences Po Paris), we wrote a game theory paper aimed at exploring and explaining the determinants of class attendance, as a game of strategic interactions between the students. In a last extension, we introduced a teacher, as a special player, using student’s strategies to set up her own.
Macroeconomics Presentation of New Keynesain models: not yet useful for policy analysis (V.V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan, 2019), with Alexandra Anghel : In Macroeconomics 2 class (taught by Jean Barthelemy, Banque de France), we presented this paper, which proposed critiques and limits of New Keynesian models and their use and interpretability. The original paper can be found here
Other projects
The Econometric Game 2025 : I represented Sciences Po at the 2025 World Econometric Championship, where we reached the final ! Find out more here
Extension of Cavallo et al.(2023) to heterogeneous exposures to energy price shocks : In the Summer 2024, as a research assistant for Isabelle Méjean, I built on and extended Cavallo et al. (2024) sticky price model. In the context of a work on post-Covid inflation and its link with energy price shocks, this extension allowed us to introduce heterogeneity in exposure to such shocks, and therefore idiosyncraticity in firm’s responses.