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Wednesday 22 February

Banque de France/Sciences Po Research Seminar - February 22nd

The next Banque de France/Sciences Po Research Seminar "Banks and the Financial System: what regulation?" of the academic year 2016-17 will host Benoît MOJON (Director, Monetary and Financial Studies at the Banque de France) on the theme:

Why are interest rates so low?

Stéphane GUIBAUD (Assistant Professor of Economics at SciencesPo) will share his views as an academic on the subject.

Banque de France / Sciences Po Research Seminars discuss issues on banking, financial systems and financial regulation. The objective is to confront the approaches and ideas of academics and practitioners.

When? Wednesday, February 22nd - 5 to 7 PM
Where? Department of Economics, 28, rue des Saints Pères: AMPHI CAQUOT

If you would like to attend, please contact Pilar Calvo-Alvarez by email.

Seminars are organized by Vivien Levy-Garboua (BNP Paribas), Robert Ophèle (Banque de France), Guillaume Plantin (Professor of Sciences Po).

Visiting with us...

Jennifer HUNT

Jennifer HUNT, James Cullen Chair of Economics and Professor, comes to the Department from Rutgers University where hse has been teaching since 2011.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST

- Immigration and wage inequality

Jennifer Hunt has been at Rutgers since 2011 after previous positions at McGill University (2004-2011), the University of Montreal (2001-2004) and Yale (1992-2001). From 2013-2015 she was first Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, then Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1992 and her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and is on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung in Nuremburg. Her current research focuses on immigration and wage inequality, while past research has also encompassed unemployment, the science and engineering workforce, the transition from communism, crime and corruption.

Jennifer HUNT will be visiting the Department from February 7th to the 28th.

Learn more about Jennifer HUNT and her research (link)

Office Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères - TBA
Email: jennifer.hunt@rutgers.edu

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