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Edward Glaeser

Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Primary Fields of Interest: Urban economics, social economics, institutions.
Research Topics:

Claudia Goldin

Henry Lee Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic history, labor economics.
Research Topics: The economic histories of education, income, inequality, immigration, technological change, and the interrelationships among them, particularly for the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries and beyond.
On leave Spring 2010

Gita Gopinath

Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Princeton
Primary Fields of Interest: International macroeconomics and trade.
Research Topics:

Jerry Green

John Leverett Professor and David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
Ph.D. University of Rochester
Primary Fields of Interest: Microeconomic theory.
Research Topics: Behavior under uncertainty, incentives and game theory, public finance: health care, technology, and environment.
On leave academic year 2009-2010

Oliver Hart

Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Princeton
Primary Fields of Interest: Microeconomics.
Research Topics: Theory of the firm and organizations, financial structure of firms, contract theory.

Elhanan Helpman

Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: International economics, economic growth, political economy.
Research Topics: The effect of interest groups on policy formation, international productivity links.

Richard Hornbeck

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic History and Development
Research Topics:

Rustam Ibragimov

Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Yale
Primary Fields of Interest: Econometrics, applied econometrics, financial economics, economic theory, statistics and probability theory.
Research Topics:

Guido Imbens

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Brown
Primary Fields of Interest: Econometrics
Research Topics: Causality, program evaluation, identification, Bayesian methods, semi-parametric methods, instrumental variables.

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