Visiting with us...
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During the Winter-Spring Semester, the Department will be hosting Vasily KOROVKIN (UPF-BSE), Raphaël LEVY (HEC Paris), Aurélie OUSS (U Penn), and David THESMAR (MIT Sloan) as Visiting faculty members:
Vasily KOROVKIN is Assistant Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) since 2023. Additionally, he is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Prior to joining UPF-BSE, he was Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) in Prague.
He is an applied microeconomist focusing on firms and firm linkages in developing and middle-income countries. He uses reduced-form and structural methods to understand how institutional frictions affect the interactions between the firms and firm linkages, and also developes new methods. His research areas are primarily development economics and political economy and also applied econometrics and trade. His 2-year project Military Conflicts, Sanctions, and International Trade: Evidence from Russia with Dzhamilya Nigmatulina was recently awarded a substantial grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Professor Korovkin will be visiting with us from February 12th to April 30th, 2024.
Raphaël LEVY is an Associate Professor at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC Paris). He is also a Louis Bachelier Fellow since 2022. Prior to joining HEC Paris he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and, before that, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
His research is in information economics, with applications to industrial organisation, corporate finance, political economy and behavioural economics. His most recent research papers were published in Management Science, The Journal of the European Economic Association, and the Journal of Labor Economics.
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Professor Levy joins us from February 5th to June 19th, 2024.
Aurélie OUSS is the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an Affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
Her research examines how good design of criminal justice institutions and policies can make law enforcement fairer and more efficient.
Prior to joining UPenn, she was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, working with Jens Ludwig. She was awarded her PhD in Economics in 2013 at the Harvard Department of Economics.
Before graduate school, she worked as a research assistant for JPAL, running field experiments on microcredits and conditional cash transfers in rural Morocco. She received a BA in Economics and Sociology from École Normale Superieure (ENS), and a Master's in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE).
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Professor Ouss will be visiting with us until the end of June 2024.
David THESMAR is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of the Cercle des économistes.
He is an expert in corporate finance, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship, and behavioural economics. Recently, he has studied the impact of financing constraints on the real economy. He also investigates risk management and systemic risk in banking as well as researching firm organisation and non-rational decision making on corporate strategies. His work makes systematic use of large datasets but emphasizes a parsimonious modelling approach to address economic questions.
He regularly publishes in the best specialised reviews and has been honoured with a number of best paper awards - Michael Brennan Best Paper in Corporate Finance (Review of Financial Studies), Smith Breeden Prize (Journal of Finance), Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize (Journal of Finance).
In 2007, David Thesmar was awarded the Best Young French Economist Award by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes.
To learn more about David THESMAR, consult his website
Professor Thesmar will be visiting with us for the full academic year from September 2023 to August 2024.
