Post by Lionel FONTAGNE

I am delighted to congratulate Léonard Bocquet, whose thesis I had the pleasure of co-supervising at the Paris School of Economics with Agnès Bénassy-Quéré. Léonard received the Sciences Po and CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research Philippe Martin Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Economics in 2025, jointly with Maddalena Conte. This award, sponsored by the Conseil d'analyse économique (CAE) and the Crédit Mutuel, continues Philippe’s commitment to supporting young researchers in economics. Léonard is now Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. This success owes much to Léonard's intellectual exchanges with Vasco Carvalho when he was a Research Fellow at the The Janeway Institute for Economics, University of Cambridge and Benjamin Moll at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Léonard's job market paper focuses on the Network Origin of Slow Labor Reallocation and answers the question “How fast do labor markets adjust to technology shocks?” Combining network theory with labor economics, the paper analyzes how skill frictions shape labor reallocation dynamics. Léonard's job-search model embedded in an occupation network demonstrates that bridge occupations disproportionately influence overall reallocation speed. Quantitatively, the model predicts that robot adoption induces a slow reallocation process—lasting around ten years.