Yves Zenou

Yves Zenou is a Professor of Economics and holds the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). He serves as a visiting professor at Stockholm University and the University of Southampton. His affiliations include the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN, Stockholm), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn), and the Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin).

His research focuses on network economics, urban and spatial economics, labor, development, and political economy, with additional interests in education, crime, industrial organization, gender, culture, and discrimination. His work has been published in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Journal of Political Economy.

• Awards: He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and recipient of the 2018 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research at Monash University and the 2023 Australian National Research Award in Economics.
• Editorial Roles: Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior; Associate Editor at The Economic Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and others.
• Grants: 2023 Australian Research Council Discovery Project on Environment-Friendly Behaviours.

He is organizing a 2025 Summer School on Networks with lectures by leading scholars and co-chairing the 2024 Econometric Society Australasia Meeting at Monash University.