Keynote Speakers 2027
Maria Petrova · Johanna Rickne · Alain Trannoy
Maria Petrova
Maria Petrova is Professor of Economics and ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a CEPR Research Fellow. Her research focuses on political economy, media economics and information economics, in particular on how media information shape political attitudes, institutions and conflict. She has published in leading journals including the AER, QJE, RESTUD and American Political Science Review. She was co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics (2016–2023) and currently serves on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies.
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Johanna Rickne
Johanna Rickne is Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, and a CEPR Research Affiliate and IZA Research Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of labor economics, political economy and gender economics, with a particular focus on political representation, workplace inequality and gender gaps. She has published in leading journals including the AER, the QJE, the Economic Journal, and the American Political Science Review. She is Co-Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy and serves on the editorial boards of the AER and the American Journal of Political Science.
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Alain Trannoy
Alain Trannoy is an emeritus Research Professor at EHESS and a member of the Aix-Marseille School of Economics. He is one of France’s leading scholars in public economics, inequality and social choice, with major contributions on redistribution, equality of opportunity, optimal taxation and economic philosophy. He has published in leading journals including the QJE, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. His work also has a strong policy dimension, and he has held several prominent advisory positions in France, including at the Council of Economic Advisors to the French PM (Conseil d’Analyse Économique).
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