Welcome to my personal webpage
Contact:
pmandon[at]worldbank.org
pierre.mandon[at]etu.uca.fr
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Awards:
2016: Vincent & Elinor Ostrom price of the best paper by a graduate student at the 53rd Public Choice Society Conference, Ft. Lauderdale (Florida).
2012: UCAf (formerly FuDA) prices for the best graduate student in Economics (B.Sc. and M.Sc).
Short bio:
Since July 2022 I'm a Country Economist at the World Bank Group, Macro Trade & Investment (MTI), Global Practice. Since February 2024 I'm also Research Fellow at CERDI (France). I received my Ph.D. in Economics from CERDI in 2017. My topics of interest include Applied Econometrics, Fiscal Macroeconomics, Political Economy and Institutional Economics. I wrote a book on Direct Democracy, Sovereignty, and Classical Republicanism. All the views on this website are my own.
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News:
12/05/2023: My new paper co-written with V. Nossek and T. D. Sandjong on the socio-economic impacts of the civil war in Central African Republic is now available as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper.
11/18/2023: My new paper co-written with B. Hacibedel, P. Muthoora and N. Pouokam, on inequality, growth fluctuations, and employment, is now published in the Empirical Economics.
08/15/2023: My paper co-written with C. Laville on the effect(s) of local income shocks on the risks conflicts is now available as an APSA PrePrint. It has been presented at the APSA Annual Meeting 2023 in Los Angeles, CA (USA), a FHI 360 Evidence that Matters research seminar, and the IMF FCS Seminar on "The Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks on Conflict" organized as part of the Fund’s Internal Economics Training (IET), both in Washington, DC (USA) .
02/23/2023: My new paper co-written with C. Laville on the effect(s) of local income shocks on the risks conflicts is now available as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper. It has been presented at the Chaire Économie de défense of IHEDN in Paris (France), 60th PCS conference in Seattle, WA (USA) and EPCS conference in Hannover (Germany). An earlier version of the paper has been presented at the 59th PCS conference in Nashville, TN (USA), ICDE conference in Clermont-Ferrand (France) and MAER-Net Colloquia in Kyoto (Japan).
02/16/2023: My new paper co-written with M. T. Woldemichael on the effects of Chinese aid for recipient countries is now published in World Development. An earlier version of the paper was presented at the 58th PCS conference in Savannah, GA (USA).
09/08/2022: My new paper co-written with J. Cust and S. Devarajan on the Dutch disease is now published in the Journal of African Economies.
12/21/2020: My first book « La Démocratie Directe contre la Sécession des Elites » is finally published! [Link to buy it here]