Ricardo Caballero is the Ford International Professor of Economics, Co-Director of the World Economic Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an NBER Research Associate in economic fluctuations and growth. Caballero has also been a visiting scholar and consultant at the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Board, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, as well as at central banks and government institutions throughout the world.

 

Olivier Blanchard has spent his professional life in Cambridge, U.S. After obtaining his Ph.D in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, he taught at Harvard University, returning to MIT in 1982, where he has been since then. He is the Class of 1941 Professor of Economics, and past Chair of the Economics Department. He is currently on leave from MIT, as Economic Counselor and Director of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.

 

Oliver Hart is currently the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. Hart works mainly on contract theory, the theory of the firm, corporate finance, and law and economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy and has three honorary degrees.

 

Eric Maskin received the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory. He has also made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy, and other areas of economics. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University. He was a faculty member at MIT from 1977-1984, Harvard from 1985-2000, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2000-2011. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2012.

 

Jean-Charles Rochet is a former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and holds a Ph.D.in Mathematical Economics from Paris – Dauphine University. His dissertation won the Arconati-Visconti award. He has taught in Paris, France (ENSAE, Ecole Polytechnique and Toulouse School of Economics), London (B.P. visiting professor, London School of Economics, 2001-02) and has visited many universities and central banks all over the world.  He is currently President of the Econometric Society and has been a Fellow of this Society since 1995.

 

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. Founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a CEPR research fellow, International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

 

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