Speaker

Philippe AGHION

Member - Cercle des économistes

Present positions

• Professor at College de France (Chair entitled “Institutions, Innovation, and Growth)
• Invited Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
• Invited Professor, Institute of International Economic Studies, Stockholm University
• Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fellow of the Econometric Society

Positions’ held

• Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Professor of Economics, University College London (UCL)
• Official Fellow, Nuffield College,
• Member of the Executive and Supervisory committee of CERGE (Prague)
• Programme Director of CEPR in Industrial Organization

Education 

• D. Harvard University (Economics)
• Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Section Mathématiques)

Main publications

Books

• « Changer de modèle » from Aghion P, Cette G with Cohen E, Odile Jacob, 2014
• « Handbooks of Economic Growth » from Aghion P and Durlauf S, North-Holland: Elsevier, 2014
• « Repenser l’Etat » from Aghion P and Roulet A, Editions Seuil, 2011
• « The Economics of Growth » from Aghion P and Howitt P, MIT Press, 2009
• « Handbook of Economic Growth » from Aghion P and Durlauf S, North-Holland: Elsevier, 2005

Articles

• Aghion, P, Dechezlepretre, A, Hemous, D, Martin, R, and J. Van Reenen (2014): Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry, Journal of Political Economy 2016
• Industrial Policy and Competition, from Aghion P, Dewatripont M, Du L, Harrison A, and Legros P, American Economic Journal, 2015
• Innovation and Institutional Ownership, from Aghion P, Van Reenen J, et Zingales L, American Economic Review 2013
• The Environment and Directed Technical Change, from Acemoglu D, Aghion P, Bursztyn L, et Hemous D, American Economic Review 2012
• Subgame Perfect Implementation with Unverifiable Information, from Aghion P, Fudenberg D, Holden R, Kunimoto T, and Tercieux O, Quarterly Journal of Economics 2012

Economic fields of expertise

Innovation ; Growth Economics; Contracts and Organizations; Industrial Organization