Faculty Directory

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Melissa Dell

Associate of the Department of Economics, Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Development, Political Economy
Research Topics:

Emmanuel Farhi

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics.
Research Topics: Macroeconomic policy.

George F. Baker Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Oxford
Primary Fields of Interest: Public economics, taxation, social insurance, macroeconomics.
Research Topics: Social Security reform, effects of inflation, effects of taxation.

Christopher Foote

Professor of the Practice
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics and labor economics
Research Topics: Labor economics

Richard Freeman

Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Labor economics and institutions, inequality, crime, philanthropy, European labor markets, computer simulation modeling, trade unionism.
Research Topics: Growth and decline of unions, effects of immigration and trade on inequality, restructuring European welfare states, Chinese labor markets, poverty and crime, self-organizing non-union in the labor market, employee involvement programs.

Benjamin Friedman

William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy.
Research Topics: The role that financial markets play in determining the effects of monetary and fiscal policies on the non-financial economy, conceptual frameworks for planning and implementing monetary policy, social and moral consequences of economic growth.

Roland Fryer

Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Primary Fields of Interest: Applied theory, applied microeconomics, labor economics.
Research Topics: Affirmative action, discrimination, social economics.

Drew Fudenberg

Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Game theory, microeconomic theory.
Research Topics: Learning IN games, reputation AND repeated play, theoretical industrial organization.