Octavien Maury

Octavien Maury

PhD Candidate in Law & Economics

CRED · Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas

Primary fieldLaw & Economics · Public Economics

I am a PhD candidate at the Centre de Recherche sur le Droit et l'Économie (CRED), Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, co-supervised by Bruno Deffains and Romain Espinosa.

My research focuses on the understanding and aggregation of legal indicators, and on the intensity of prison sentences.

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Octavien Maury

Working Papers

Who's Going to Jail Tonight?

Octavien Maury

Job market paper
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Placeholder abstract. This paper studies what drives the intensity of prison sentences — how far stated and actual severity reflect beliefs about deterrence and rehabilitation versus normative judgements about desert. Replace this text with your real abstract.

The Aggregation and Reliability of International Legal Indicators

Octavien Maury

Working paper · in progress
Draft (PDF)
Placeholder abstract. Legal and governance indicators guide aid, investment and reform, yet how their many sub-components should be aggregated — and how much signal the result actually carries — is rarely examined. This paper studies the construction and informational reliability of such indices across a large cross-country panel. Replace this text with your real abstract.

Teaching

2024–2025

History of Economic Thought

Chargé de TD (teaching assistant), undergraduate tutorials — Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

2024–2025

Comparative Economic Theories

Chargé de TD — undergraduate tutorials, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Miscellaneous

A few small side projects — some useful, some just for fun.

On va où ?

A little web app that picks a travel destination at random when you can't decide where to go.

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EventsEcon — Paris economics seminars

Every seminar, workshop and colloquium announced by the economics labs of Île-de-France, gathered and de-duplicated on one page, with a subscribable calendar.

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Random HAL document

A browser extension I made that opens a random document from HAL. The native version below does the same thing, right here — no install needed.

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Draw a random HAL document

Pick a type, then draw — it opens a random document from HAL in a new tab.