Santiago Lopez-Cantor
Santiago Lopez-Cantor
I am a teaching and research fellow (ATER) at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (Aix-Marseille University). I will defend my thesis, under the supervision of Renaud Bourlès and Alain Trannoy, in December 2025.
I am a microeconomic theorist working at the intersection of public economics and political economy.
My primary research interests are the interactions between public policies and inequalities, mediated by social norms and behavioral biases.
In the spring of 2024, I visited the Hoover Chair in Economics and Social Ethics at the Université Catholique de Louvain, hosted by Grégory Ponthière.
News:
October 2025 - I presented my Job Market Paper, "Individual Morality and Inequality: Public Goods and the Political Support for Redistribution," at the ASSET 2025 Conference in Rabat, Morocco, on the 30th of October.
September 2025 - Revise & Resubmit at Public Choice on our paper "Pension's Resource-Time Trade-Off: The Role of Inequalities in the Design of Retirement Schemes" with Renaud Bourlès.