I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Paris School of Economics (PSE), Collège de France and EHESS. I am supervised by Philippe Aghion.
I’ll be on the 2026-2027 academic job market.
My research interests lie in the Economics of Science and Innovation and in Political Economy. My main focus is on how political institutions shape innovation, especially how political pressures affect academics’ production of ideas.
Since 2023, I co-organize the Brown Bag Economics of Innovation Seminar, which is a joint seminar between the Collège de France and INSEAD. Feel free to contact me if you would like to present.
In 2025, I was a visiting scholar at the Department of Applied Economics of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (hosted by Riccardo Turati), and the University of Munich LMU (hosted by Fabian Waldinger). During the Spring term 2026 I visited the University of Warwick (hosted by Sascha O. Becker).
Contact: luc.paluskiewicz[at]psemail.eu
You can find my CV here.
Job Market Paper
How to Silence Researchers? Evidence from Illiberal Policies in Hungary
with Raphaël Wargon [draft available upon request]
Abstract
We explore how contemporary attacks against academic freedom and illiberal policies have detrimental effects on innovation, focusing on academic research. Using rich national research repositories and international bibliometric data, we show that academics' research trajectories diverge sharply depending on their perceived political alignment. Academics perceived as political opponents experience large declines both in publication output and collaboration networks, each falling by about one quarter relative to pre-shock levels. Researchers working on politically sensitive topics are also disproportionately affected: they experience a 10% decline in total publications and a 30% decline in publications in top journals. Targeted researchers experience a loss of co-authors and are likely to shift their research agendas in response to these threats. We find that Hungarian researchers increasingly reallocate their publication efforts toward lower-ranked national-language journals and are more likely to leave the country altogether.
Past presentations: Innovation Seminar (LMU), Brown Bag Seminar in Innovation Economics (Collège de France and INSEAD), Applied Young Economists Webinar (AYEW), Political Economy & Public Economics Reading Group (University of Warwick), 2026 EAYE Annual Meeting, 2nd EUI ECO PhD Workshop (co-author), BSE Summer Forum Economics of Science and Innovation.
Upcoming presentations: CERGIC Internal Seminar, 8th International Conference on European Economics and Politics, NBER SI 2026 Science of Science Funding, EEA 2026 Annual Meeting.