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Vincent Pons
@vinpons.bsky.social
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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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Vincent Pons is a French economist who is the Michael B. Kim Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Pons's research focuses on questions in political economy and development economics. .. more

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d
Our future depends on who can coordinate best and how Americans answer the two most urgent questions in our politics: Will the administration succeed in picking off enough of the opposition such that resistance seems useless?

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Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · 11d
Et si l'on réformait enfin l'impôt sur les successions? Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · 21d
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
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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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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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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Sep 4
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 !

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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Aug 26
Trump encense Milei, mais imite les Kirchner.
Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇👇
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Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org · Aug 12
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.
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Aug 4
Full paper here: www.vincentpons.org/median-voter.... (n/n)
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Aug 4
Second, 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. (3/n)
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Aug 4
We use candidate websites for US House elections, 2002–2016, and manifestos for French parl. and local elections, 1958–2022.
We show, first, that candidates move to the center in ideology and rhetorical complexity between the 1st round (or primary) and the 2nd round (or general election). (2/n)
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Aug 4
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)
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jun 5
Forthcoming in the AER: "Keep your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections" by Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec, and Vincent Pons. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Keep your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
(Forthcoming Article) - We study changes in political discourse during campaigns, using a novel dataset of candidate websites for U.S. House elections, 2002-2016, and manifestos for French parliamenta...
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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · Oct 11
When deaths rise or the economy collapses, do people blame democracy? Michael Becher, Nicolas Longuet-Marx, Vincent Pons, et al. conducted a survey experiment with 22,500 respondents in 12 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic to shed light on this question⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/when-deaths-...
When deaths rise or the economy collapses, do people blame democracy? - The JOP´s Political Science Blog
When deaths rise or the economy collapses in a crisis, governments in democracies fear for their survival. Everybody knows that unhappy voters can boot them out at the next election. But throwing out ...
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NBER @nber.org · Feb 6
Residential segregation between Democrats and Republicans has steadily increased at all geographic levels since 2008. Decomposing this trend into different sources, from Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons, and Emilie Sartre https://www.nber.org/papers/w33422
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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
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Nouvelles nominations au Conseil d'analyse économique
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Philippe Moreau Chevrolet @moreauchevrolet.bsky.social · Jul 6
« La démocratie est menacée »
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"La démocratie américaine est menacée"
1er numéro du Podcast "Réarmer la démocratie", animé par Philippe Moreau Chevrolet. Dialogue avec Vincent Pons, Professeur à Harvard, éditorialiste aux Echos, membre du Conseil d'analyse économique.
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Philippe Moreau Chevrolet @moreauchevrolet.bsky.social · Jul 21
« 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.
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Jul 8
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.
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Philippe Moreau Chevrolet @moreauchevrolet.bsky.social · Jul 6
« La démocratie est menacée »
dirtypolitics.substack.com/p/la-democra...
"La démocratie américaine est menacée"
1er numéro du Podcast "Réarmer la démocratie", animé par Philippe Moreau Chevrolet. Dialogue avec Vincent Pons, Professeur à Harvard, éditorialiste aux Echos, membre du Conseil d'analyse économique.
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