Yves Zenou – RFBerlin

Yves Zenou

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in June 2025

Research area

Network Economics Urban and Spatial Economics Labor Development Political Economy

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@yveszenou.bsky.social

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About Yves Zenou

Yves Zenou is a professor of economics and the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics at the department of economics of Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SAET Economic Theory Fellow, Fellow of the Spatial Econometrics Association, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Fellow of the Regional Science Association International. He is currently an Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior and an Associate Editor at The Economic Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Discussion papers

September 2026

Beyond the Facts: Familiarity, Credibility, and Persuasion

Evangelos Dioikitopoulos, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Tommaso Sartori, Yves Zenou

May 2026

Believing and Practicing: How Religion Shapes Human Capital and Growth

Sebastiano Della Lena, Yasuhiro Sato, Yves Zenou

January 2026

Affective Polarization, Media Outlets, and Opinion Dynamics

Sebastiano Della Lena, Luca Paolo Merlino, Yves Zenou

November 2025

Peer vs. Network Effects: Microfoundations, Identification, and Beyond

Yves Zenou

October 2025

The Polarization Paradox: Why More Connections Can Divide Us

Arthur Campbell, C. Matthew Leister, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou

July 2025

Political Breakthroughs in the Trenches

Pauline Grosjean, Saumitra Jha, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou

June 2025

Beyond Hot Spots: Enhancing Police Effectiveness by Incorporating a Spatial Network Approach

Corrado Giulietti, Brendon McConnell , Yves Zenou

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