Faculty Directory

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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.

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.

Pol Antràs

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

Silvia Ardagna

Assistant 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.

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:

Effi Benmelech

Assistant 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.

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

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.