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On January 12, 2026, CREST and the Department of Economics of Institut Polytechnique de Paris welcomed a large audience for its annual lecture devoted to the Nobel Prize in Economics, hosted at CREST-ENSAE Paris. The event featured Philippe Aghion, one of the recipients of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, together with Antonin Bergeaud, winner of the 2025 Best Young Economist Prize. Bertrand Garbinti (organizer), Thierry Coulhon (head of IP Paris)...

In a recent Financial Times article, the newspaper looks at how research is often measured by citation counts and journal rankings. To show how these metrics shape perceptions of impact, the article highlights the ten most-cited studies according to the Scite analytics tool — including one by Olivier-David Zerbib , researcher at CREST. Read the Financial Times article here.

Economic and Political Issues of Economic Sanctions Clément Montes clement.montes@ensae.fr | Website My PhD focuses on so-called smart economic sanctions that specifically target firms. Based on the typology of sanctions proposed by the Global Sanction DataBase (GSDB) 1, which records measures adopted worldwide, this type of instrument has been widely used over the past decade. However, existing databases do not provide detailed information about...