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Alexandra Roulet

Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science

Biography

Alexandra Roulet is an Associate Professor of Economics at INSEAD and the current recipient of the Mathieu Guillemin MBA'97J Fellowship in Business and Society. She is also a CEPR Research Fellow and co-directs the CEPR Research Policy Network on "Growth, Innovation and Social Model in Europe".

Alexandra’s research focuses on labour economics and has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics or the Journal of Public Economics. She is the co-winner of the 2017 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. In 2024 she was named the best French economist under 40 by Le Cercle des économistes and the newspaper Le Monde.

Alexandra worked as economic advisor to President Macron and Prime Minister Borne from June 2022 to September 2023. She is currently a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis.

She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and earned her PhD in Economics at Harvard University in 2017.





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Economics & Finance

Consumers’ Green Conscience Fosters Clean Innovation

A. Roulet, P. Aghion

It’s not cheap talk; when market competition is fierce, the effect of consumers’ values on green innovation can be as strong as a large fuel price increase.

Economics & Finance

Bridging Prosperity and Need

Alexandra Roulet

A country's overall economic figures don't always speak to the difficulty of life for many people. Even Singapore needs a food bank.

Career

Why Not Enough Women Are Senior Leaders

A. Roulet, A. Lawson

True parity in the workplace is still a distant goal. INSEAD faculty outline why women aren’t advancing and the role gender stereotypes play.

Responsibility

Why We Haven’t Fixed Gender Inequality at Work

Alexandra Roulet

Research by Claudia Goldin, the 2023 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, offers ground-breaking insights about a long-standing problem.

Economics & Finance

What It’s Like to Be a Gig Worker During a Pandemic

M. Stabile, A. Roulet

How precarious workers balance financial uncertainty, health risks and mental well-being in the age of Covid-19.

Economics & Finance

How the Daily Commute Affects the Gender Wage Gap

A. Roulet, T. Le Barbanchon, R. Barthelot

Women’s aversion for commuting motivates them to look for closer and not-so-well paid jobs compared to men.
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