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10.03.2024
New faculty to watch for next Fall
The Department is thrilled to announce that two very fine researchers will be joining our faculty in September 2024: welcome Axelle Ferrière and Kevin O'Rourke!
Axelle Ferrière will be joining us from the Paris School of Economics (PSE) where she is currently a Chaired Professor Axelle and a CNRS Research Fellow. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Following her PhD at New York University in 2015, she continued her research at the European University Institute until 2018 when she joined the PSE.
Her research primarily focuses on fiscal policy and redistribution, through the lens of heterogeneous-agent models. She is also interested in the quantitative effects of uncertainty. Her work has been published in journals such as Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics and Journal of Monetary Economics.
More about Axelle FERRIÈRE and her research
Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke is currently Professor of Economics at New York University at Abu Dhabi. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a former Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER). Among his present editorial duties he is Senior Editor of Economic Policy, an International Advisory Board member of the Scandinavian Economic History Review, a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied History and a Member of the Advisory Board of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics.
Prior to joining NYU Abu Dhabi, he was the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College.
His research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics. He has published extensively on the history of globalization and deglobalization: his books include the prize-winning Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey Williamson), and Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (co-authored with Ronald Findlay). He was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant in 2009 to study interwar trade and trade policy. His most recent book is Une Histoire Brève du Brexit (Odile Jacob, 2018), published in English as A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop (Penguin, 2019).
