Roland J. M. BÉNABOU is a Visiting Faculty member, on leave from Princeton where he is the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Among his numerous fellowships and honours, he is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) as well as of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a member of the Behavioral Economics Roundtable. With respect to his editorial duties, he has just completed a second term as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review and remains the Associate Editor of the QR Journal of Macroeconomics and the Journal of Economic Growth.

His research spans both macroeconomic and microeconomic areas, such as the interplay of inflation and imperfect competition, or speculation and manipulation in financial markets. Earlier this Fall, the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) announced the awarding of the 2021 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize to Roland J. M. BÉNABOU, a "renowned international economist whose research, in the spirit of the work undertaken by Professor Jean-Jacques Laffont, combines both the theoretical and the empirical".

Roland J. M. BÉNABOU will present a paper, join with Ania JAROSCZEWIZ and George LOEWENSTEIN, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:

It Hurts To Ask (paper forthcoming)

More about Roland J. M. BÉNABOU and his research

Date: MONDAY, November 29th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405

The next Departmental Seminar will host Kyle HERKENHOFF (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, on leave from University of Minnesota) on December 6th.