PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025

The Paris School of Economics will host the third PSE-CEPR Policy Forum from June 18 to 20, 2025, following the success of the 2023 and 2024 editions.

Jointly organized with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the forum aims to discuss critical emerging issues among leading researchers and policymakers, reaching a large audience that includes government officials and legislators, the media, and academia. The 2025 forum’s overarching theme will be: The Future of Work.

It will explore issues related to the reallocation of jobs and the reorganization of work in a world led by demographic changes, technological mutations and the environmental transition. It will also analyze the recent evolutions in social preferences and attitudes towards work, as well as the dynamics of compensations and their distribution across skills, gender, and race. Finally, it will delineate the innovative policies and strategies needed to meet those challenges.

Program

The keynote speakers for this edition of the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum are:

• David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future
• Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago Booth School of Business, CEPR): Gender Inequality: An Overview of the Latest Research
• Steven J. Davis (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research): Why Working from Home Will Stick?
• Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford, CEPR): Opening Lecture

The forum will feature policy sessions and research sessions where academic scholars will present their recent work on the subject. It will also showcase the next generation of economists through poster sessions and presentations by PhD students.

Each day, the program will wrap up with one policy conversation:

• Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (International Monetary Fund) and David Autor (MIT) on June 18,
• Michel Houdebine (DARES) and Steven J. Davis (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research) on June 19,
• Stefano Scarpetta (OECD) and Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago Booth School of Business, CEPR) on June 20.

Organizers:

• Edouard Challe (PSE, CNRS, CEPR)
• Esther Duflo (PSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEPR)
• Jean-Olivier Hairault (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Francesco Pappadà (PSE, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
• Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Geneva Graduate Institute, INSEAD, CEPR)