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Philippe Aghion

Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic theory, development, industrial organization.
Research Topics: Economic growth, contract theory.

Alberto Alesina

Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Political economy, monetary and fiscal policy, macroeconomics.
Research Topics: Fiscal policy, currency unions, size of countries, redistributive policies.

Pol Antrās

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: International economics.
Research Topics: Contractual frictions in international trade, the international organization of production, patterns of industrialization.

Susan Athey

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Stanford Graduate School of Business
Primary Fields of Interest: Microeconomic theory, industrial organization, econometrics.
Research Topics:

Robert Barro

Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic growth, macroeconomics.
Research Topics:
On Leave 2012-2013

John Campbell

Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Yale
Primary Fields of Interest: Asset pricing, macroeconomics.
Research Topics: Equilibrium models of stock and bond prices, portfolio choice for long-term investors, risk sharing functions of financial markets.
On Leave 2012-2013

Gary Chamberlain

Louis Berkman Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Econometrics.
Research Topics: Empirical applications of statistical decision theory in microeconomics.
On Leave 2012-2013

Eric Chaney

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic History
Research Topics: Middle East Economic History
On Leave 2012-2013

Raj Chetty

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Harvard University
Primary Fields of Interest: Public economics, applied microeconomics, macroeconomics
Research Topics: optimal design of tax and social insurance policies, consumption behavior and risk preferences, behavioral welfare economics

Richard Cooper

Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: International economics, including both international trade and international monetary economics, international environmental and energy issues.
Research Topics: Integrating China into the world economic system.

David Cutler

Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Public economics, health economics.
Research Topics: Why people are in better health, the impact of medical care on the public sector, racial and ethnic segregation.
On Leave 2012-2013