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Philippe AGHION, Collège de France, London School of Economics, INSEAD

Philippe Aghion is a Professor at the College de France, at the London School of Economics, and INSEAD. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has held positions at Harvard, UCL London, University of Oxford and MIT. In 2001, Philippe received Yrjo Jahnsson Award given to the best European economist below 45 years old. He has also received the John Von Neumann award in 2009 and the BBVA Frontier of Knowledge award in 2020, as well as honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics, Université du Quebec à Montreal, and Université de Liège. He has given more than twenty invited lectures.

His research focuses on the economics of growth. With Peter Howitt, he pioneered the so-called Schumpeterian Growth paradigm which was subsequently used to analyze the design of growth policies and the role of the state in the growth process. Much of this work is summarized in their joint book Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1998) and The Economics of Growth (MIT Press, 2009), in his book with Rachel Griffith on Competition and Growth (MIT Press, 2006), in his survey “What Do We Learn from Schumpeterian Growth Theory” (joint with U. Akcigit and P. Howitt.), and most recently in “The Power of Creative Destruction” (joint with C. Antonin and S. Bunel, 2021, Harvard University Press). His papers have been published in the best journals in economics: Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics in 1987 from Harvard University.

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