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Vincent Pons
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Professor at Harvard Business School. Affiliate at NBER, CEPR, JPal. Cofounder at Explain. Column at Les Echos. Political economy, development, tech.
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Thrilled to see our paper on “Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes” published in the @jeeanews.bsky.social! 👇👇
We investigate the effects of far-reaching campaign finance rules, with Nikolaj Broberg and Clemence Tricaud.
Short thread on what we do and find (1/n).
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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jeeanews.bsky.social
Forthcoming article "Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes" by Nikolaj Broberg @vinpons.bsky.social and Clemence Tricaud
@eeanews.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes
Abstract. This paper investigates the effects of campaign finance rules on electoral outcomes. In French local elections, candidates competing in districts
doi.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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gemmadipoppa.bsky.social
🚨 New WP 🚨:

All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why?

We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy.

🧵 1/11
nber.org NBER @nber.org · 14d
Studying the logic of state surveillance based on the universe of Italian files finds that states target educated and subaltern groups, with mobilization and radical change potential, from Gemma Dipoppa and Annalisa Pezone www.nber.org/papers/w34492
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
vinpons.bsky.social
Quelles leçons tirer de la victoire de Milei? Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Et si l'on réformait enfin l'impôt sur les successions? Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇
September 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Thanks to @aeajournals.bsky.social for highlighting our August 2025 AER paper in their featured charts series! 👇👇
"Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during US and French Elections" w/ R. Di Tella, R. Kotti and @clpennec.bsky.social
aeajournals.bsky.social AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Sep 4
Political candidates systematically move toward the political center between the first and second rounds of an election, say researchers at Harvard and @hec.ca. Their findings help confirm the forces behind the median voter theorem. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
Moving toward the center
How do politicians adjust their messages based on who they're running against?
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September 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
vinpons.bsky.social
Merci à Guillaume Erner pour son invitation à dialoguer sur la fatigue démocratique en France et aux Etats-Unis, sur la matinale de @franceculture.fr !

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
September 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Trump encense Milei, mais imite les Kirchner.
Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇👇
August 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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In @aeajournals.bsky.social AER, Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, @clpennec.bsky.social, and @vinpons.bsky.social examine a new dataset of US and French candidate websites, finding that candidate ideologies move towards the center between primary and general elections.

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We study changes in political discourse during campaigns, using a novel dataset of candidate websites for US House elections, 2002–2016, and manifestos for French parliamentary and local elections, 1958–2022. We find that candidates move to the center in ideology and rhetorical complexity between the first round (or primary) and the second round (or general election). This convergence reflects candidates' strategic adjustment to their opponents, as predicted by Downsian competition: Using an RDD we show that candidates converge to the platform of opponents who narrowly qualified for the last round as opposed to those who narrowly failed to qualify.
August 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Thrilled to see our paper published in the American Economic Review!! 👇👇👇
We show that candidates in US and French elections move to the center during the campaign, reflecting strategic adjustment to their opponents.
@aeajournals.bsky.social with R. Di Tella, R. Kotti and @clpennec.bsky.social (1/n)
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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moreauchevrolet.bsky.social
« Oui, la démocratie américaine est menacée »
Abonnez-vous à « Réarmer la démocratie - le podcast de Philippe Moreau Chevrolet » et suivez mon échange avec @vinpons.bsky.social
Disponible sur Spotify et sur Substack.
July 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Très honoré d'avoir été le premier invité du podcast "Réarmer la démocratie"!! 👇👇

Merci à @moreauchevrolet.bsky.social pour cette discussion passionnante sur la guerre menée par Trump contre les universités, les effets de sa politique économique, et les défis économiques de la France.
July 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Très heureux de devenir membre du Conseil d'Analyse économique!!
Hâte de commencer le travail avec @abergeaud.bsky.social, Florence Jusot, Pauline Rossi, Emmanuelle Taugourdeau, Benoit Mojon, ainsi que les membres existants, Xavier Jaravel, et toute l'équipe du @caeeco.bsky.social!
caeeco.bsky.social Conseil d'analyse économique @caeeco.bsky.social · Jun 26
🔔 Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris), Florence Jusot (Paris Dauphine), Vincent Pons (Harvard ), Pauline Rossi et Emmanuelle Taugourdeau (Polytechnique), et Benoit Mojon (BSI) viennent d'être nommés membres du CAE par arrêté du Premier ministre.
Bienvenue à eux
▶️ cae-eco.fr/nouvelles-no...
Nouvelles nominations au Conseil d'analyse économique
cae-eco.fr
June 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
vinpons.bsky.social
Donald Trump déroule son programme populiste et anti-redistributif.
Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇👇
June 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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We will not cower, even in the face of Trump’s militarized escalation.

On Saturday, we are going to rise up all across the country in defiance of this administration’s authoritarian agenda.

Join the nationwide peaceful protests for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE nokings.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
June 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Harvard résiste, les universités françaises pourraient-elles en faire autant ?
Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇👇
May 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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gemmadipoppa.bsky.social
📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics.

Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
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April 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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L'heure de la riposte: Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇👇
April 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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reveconstudies.bsky.social
"National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946!
From @vinpons.bsky.social, Marx and Rollet.

The companion paper: www.restud.com/electoral-tu...

#EconSky #Elections
March 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM