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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.
On leave Spring 2010

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.

Attila Ambrus

Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Princeton
Primary Fields of Interest: Microeconomic theory, game theory.
Research Topics: Coalitional agreements, pre-play negotiations, markets with network externalities, social networks, bounded memory, dynamic choice.
On leave academic year 2009-2010

Pol Antràs

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.

Silvia Ardagna

Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Boston College
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, fiscal policy.
Research Topics: Fiscal policy, regulation of product and labor markets, investment.

Beatriz Armendariz

Lecturer on Economics
Ph.D. EHESS, Paris
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic development and finance.
Research Topics: Microfinance, development banking, poverty alleviation, financial crises in developing economies.
On leave academic year 2009-2010

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 Spring 2010

Effi Benmelech

Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Primary Fields of Interest: Empirical corporate finance, financial contracting, debt maturity, financial markets, economic history, bankruptcy.
Research Topics:

John Campbell

Harvard College Professor and 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, risksharing functions of financial markets.
Department Chair

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.

Eric Chaney

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic History
Research Topics: Middle East Economic History

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.
On leave Fall 2009

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.