Andrew Funck

🌟 HEC Economics PhD Conference 2026 🌟 📄 Call for Papers now open! 📆 June 8-9, 2026 🎤 Keynote speakers: @IsabelleMejean & @tzachigilboa 📸 Last year’s keynote: @Ph_Aghion 👉 Website: sites.google.com/view/hecon/home #PhDConference #Economics #AcademicConference #CallForPapers

CALL FOR PAPERS! #HECeconPhD Conference. Keynote speakers @IsabelleMejean & @tzachigilboa Who: #PhD students in #econ Why: Get feedback and network with peers When: June 8-11, 2026 Where: @HECParis campus Deadline: March 1, 2026 Apply: sites.google.com/view/hecon/home

CALL FOR PAPERS! #HECeconPhD Conference. Keynote speakers Françoise Forge & @PAghion 🧐Who: #PhD students in #econ ❓Why: Get feedback and network with peers 🗓️When: June 10-11, 2025 🇫🇷Where: @HECParis campus ⏰Deadline: March 2, 2025 ✍️Apply: sites.google.com/view/hecon/home

How can democracies counteract misinformation from autocracies? We analyze the EU's unprecedented ban on RT and Sputnik and find that it decreased the spread of pro-Russian propaganda on social media, but only shortly. Excited to see our work on @voxeu ! cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Research #HECeconPhD Workshop Underlines Potential of New Generation of Economists! With #PhD students from @TSEinfo @CrestUmr @uniofwarwick @essec @IPPinfo @UniKonstanz @ScpoEcon @PSEinfo @bse_barcelona Learn more in this article hec.edu/en/overview/ne… #HECPhD @AndrewFunck94

📸 Had an incredible time at the PhD Economics Conference! A huge thank you to all the brilliant minds who participated and to the #HECeconPhD organizers who made it all possible. Thanks to the keynote speakers @laurent_bach and Nicolas Coeurdacier @HECKnowledge @HECParis

What is the role that the #informalsector plays in the #migration process? Thomas Monnier from @CrestUmr estimates option values associated with local and remote job search across sectors #HECeconPhD #InformalLaborMarkets #JobMobility Photo @juyoung6017

Samuel Marshall from @uniofwarwick quantifies #wage #markdowns in rural and urban areas in #Tanzania via a #spatial general equilibrium model of monopsony. #HECeconPhD #InformalLaborMarkets #JobMobility Photo @juyoung6017

Why do women take more informal jobs in #Mexico ? Angelica Martinez Leyva from @uniofwarwick shows how #caregiving #responsibilities and the need for #flexibility in hours worked play a role in this choice #HECeconPhD #InformalLaborMarkets #JobMobility Photo @juyoung6017

How do #contract #terms impact the stable allocations in the #doctor-#hospital matching market? @cyril_rEcon Cyril Rouault from @ENS_ParisSaclay explains that adding contract terms is not always favourable. #HECeconPhD #AppliedMicroTheory Photo @juyoung6017

Are online #platforms incentivized to share knowledge with #consumers? Pia Ennuschat from @UPFBarcelona says yes, when the platform is not the sole source of information. #HECeconPhD #AppliedMicroTheory Photo @juyoung6017

Does firm-sponsored #training influence the development and retention of the best #talents in firms? Giacomo Rostagno from @HECParis sheds lights on the underyling mechanisms and the #incentives at stake. #HECeconPhD #AppliedMicroeconomicTheory Photo @juyoung6017

Anti-corruption trials can be politically motivated. @bakhtawar_a from @amseaixmars uses a RDD design to show that in Pakistan, #PoliticalOpposition has been heavily targeted by #antiCorruption courts. #HECeconPhD #DevelopmentEconomics #PoliticalEconomy Photo @juyoung6017

Does #political accountability improve #bureaucratic selection? @AJLeonF from @qmuleconomics, shows that #anticorruption audits in Brazil increased quality of civil servants. #HECeconPhD #DevelopmentEconomics #PoliticalEconomy Photo @juyoung6017

When owners control firms, companies may become vehicles for private #consumption and #savings, with large distortions in terms of #equity of the #tax system. @laurent_bach , @essec and @IPPinfo, in the keynote lecture of the second day at #HECeconPhD. Photo @juyoung6017

Higher #commodity prices can boost #HumanCapital in exporting countries. Daniel Kammer @UniKonstanz finds that after coffee price booms, children in Rwanda completed more schooling. #HECeconPhD #DevelopmentEconomics #Education Photo @juyoung6017

@r_loubes Great having you Romaine!

Can economic #competion spur violence? Higher demand for informal transport in South Africa has led to increased murders among taxi owners competing for customers, @lenlrx from @ScpoEcon. #HECeconPhD #DevelopmentEconomics #EconomicsOfCrime #UrbanEconomics Photo @juyoung6017

#SelfEmployed workers constitutes 60% of the labor force in Africa. When hit by negative #trade shocks, #women suffer larger negative income effects because of worse outside options. @r_loubes from @PSEinfo , at #HECeconPhD #gender #DevelopmentEconomics Photo by @juyoung6017

How can we model decisions accounting for self-control problems due to negative emotions? Agustin Troccoli Moretti, from @uniofwarwick, reconciles distress and rational behavior. #HECeconPhD #DecisionTheory #BehavioralEconomics Photo by @juyoung6017