Andrew Funck

[Eunha CHO @eunha_cho_]

🌟 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: https://t.co/b8oxTnblN8

#PhDConference #Economics #AcademicConference #CallForPapers

[HEC Paris PhD @HECParisPhD]

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: https://t.co/1cJhwhXhxm

[HEC Paris PhD @HECParisPhD]

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: https://t.co/1cJhwhWJHO

[Matteo Grigoletto @mattegrigoletto]

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 ! https://t.co/iDB76mPhVz

[Knowledge@HEC @HECKnowledge]

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
https://t.co/V4cKYp07RK

#HECPhD @AndrewFunck94

[Andrew Funck @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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

@r_loubes Great having you Romaine!

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

#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

[Andrew Funck @AndrewFunck94]

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