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Matthias Schündeln

Assistant Professor of Economics and of Social Studies
Ph.D. Yale
Primary Fields of Interest: Development economics, industrial organization.
Research Topics: Industrial development, firm dynamics, financing constraints, heterogeneity/inequality and poverty.

Amartya Sen

Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
Ph.D. Cambridge
Primary Fields of Interest: Economics, philosophy, decision theory.
Research Topics: Social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, the economics of war and peace.

Andrei Shleifer

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Law and economics, corporate finance.
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Jeremy Stein

Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Corporte finance, behavioral finance, money and banking.
Research Topics: Capital allocation inside firms, asset pricing with differences of opinion, the role of banks in the transmission of monetary policy.

James Stock

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomic forecasting, monetary policy, the construction and use of leading and coincident economic indicators.
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Lawrence Summers

Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, international policy, finance, public economics, labor.
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Aleh Tsyvinski

Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, public economics.
Research Topics: Optimal fiscal policy, effects of taxation, role of the government, macroeconomic policy.

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