#  Alexandra Roulet 

PhD in Economics, 2017.

Assistant Professor of Economics, INSEAD.

 

 

 



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Postdoctoral Fellow, Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth Inequality, INSEAD, Jan-Aug 2017.

   ![Améliorer les appariements sur le marché du travail, by Alexandra Roulet](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/rouletbk18.jpg?itok=HX8MRaXI) 

 

Alexandra Roulet's second book, [Améliorer les appariements sur le marché du travail,](http://www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=27246100131500) has been published by Presses de Sciences Po (2018). The book analyzes "why there are over 3 millions unemployed in France and yet 300 000 unfilled vacancies each year, and what are potential remedies to this mismatch between labor supply and labor demand."  *Winner of the French Economic Association best book prize, 2019.*

 *Winner of the W.E. Upjohn Institute's Dissertation Award for the best PhD dissertation on employment-related issues, 2017.*

   ![Repenser l’Etat. Pour une social-démocratie de l’innovation](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/rouletbk11.jpg?itok=XmoohJbe) 

 

Alexandra Roulet's first book, [Repenser l'Etat ](https://faculty.insead.edu/alexandra-roulet/books-and-book-chapters)(in French), co-authored with Philippe Aghion, has been published by Éd. du Seuil in 2011. For an overview in English of some of the main ideas, see:  Philippe Aghion and Alexandra Roulet. 2014. “[Growth and the Smart State](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-economics-080213-040759).” Annual Review of Economics, 6: 913-926.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Economics](/alumni-department/economics)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2017](/alumni-year/2017)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)