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Julia Cagé is a Full Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris since 2024, having joined the Department of Economics in 2014 and receiving tenure in 2021. She is affiliated with the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) where she leads the CEPR Research and Policy Network on 'Media Plurality,' and the CESifo Research Network. Her research spans political economy, media economics, and economic history with a focus on democracy, information economics, and political participation.
Cagé's research interests center on the intersection of media, politics, and economics, particularly examining how media structures influence democratic processes, political participation, and information provision. Her work combines historical analysis with contemporary economic methods to understand the relationship between media markets, campaign finance, and political representation. She has pioneered research on media ownership models, the economics of digital journalism, and the long-term effects of historical institutions on contemporary political behavior.
Her publications reveal a consistent focus on the economics of information and democracy, with particular attention to media markets, campaign finance, and electoral systems. Her work spans both theoretical and empirical approaches, often using historical data to inform contemporary policy questions. The research demonstrates increasing interdisciplinary integration, connecting economics with political science, history, and media studies to address fundamental questions about democratic representation and information markets.
- European Research Council Starting Grant (2021) for the PARTICIPATE project
- Best Young French Economist Award (ex aequo) by Le Cercle des économistes and Le Monde (2023)
- Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2025)
- Special Jury Prize for Best Book on Media (2016)
- Prix Pétrarque de l'essai by Le Monde and France Culture (2019)
Cagé has supervised numerous PhD students and early-career researchers through her ERC grant and other research projects. She has secured substantial funding including the European Research Council Starting Grant and McCourt Institute grants in 2022 and 2023. Her research group at LIEPP has produced influential policy recommendations on media pluralism and democratic representation. She has also been involved in practical applications of her research through her board membership at Agence France Presse (2015-2022) and her policy engagement with French and European institutions.
Cagé leads the PARTICIPATE research project funded by the ERC, which studies campaign finance, information, and political influence using individual-level data and computer science tools. Her work connects with broader research initiatives at Sciences Po focused on democratic innovation and the political economy of information. She frequently collaborates with interdisciplinary teams including economists, political scientists, historians, and computer scientists to address complex questions about democracy in the digital age.
