PSE welcomes five new reseachers in 2014-2015
Nuno Coimbra
Nuno Coimbra is joining PSE this year as an Assistant Professor and Chair Banque de France researcher. He graduated from London Business School where he was advised by Prof. Helene Rey. His work is at the intersection of Macroeconomics and Finance, and in particular on the role of regulation on financial institutions over the business cycle. His other major interests are International Macroeconomics and Asset Pricing. He will be teaching the course of Numerical Methods in Macroeconomics, which focuses on providing tools for solving recursive models using numerical methods. Additional information including a list of his publications is available on his homepage PSE
Franz Dietrich
Franz Dietrich is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the overlap of economics and philosophy. His research deals primarily with the theoretical foundations of decisions by single individuals or groups, addressing on the one hand formal and mathematical questions, and on the other hand philosophical, normative and methodological questions. Regarding group decisions, his research focuses on the aggregation of individual judgments, but he also works on the aggregation of subjective probabilities and preferences, and on welfare economics. Regarding decisions of individual agents, he works for instance on the motivating reasons underlying someone’s preferences and actions, as well as on the rationalization of choices and on preference change. During his interdisciplinary career, he received a PhD in mathematics (2003, University of Oxford) and held positions at Konstanz University (2002-5, post-doc in the Philosophy, Probability & Modelling Group), Maastricht University (2005-8, Assistant Professor in the Economics Faculty) and the London School of Economics (2006-11, Nuffield Fellow, later Ludwig Lachmann Fellow). In late 2011 he joined the CNRS in Paris, and the CES as well as the Paris School of Economics (as Associate member). Additional information including a list of his publications is available on his homepage PSE
François Fontaine
After obtaining his PhD from Paris 1 University and a short stay at the CREST, François Fontaine worked for a few years at Strasbourg University and at Lorraine University. He joined in September Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University and PSE as Associate member, and is also junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His general research interests are in labor economics and the micro-foundations of macroeconomics. His actual works, in the overlap of theory and econometrics, are focusing on unemployment insurance and on the impact of the labor-market imperfections on firm dynamics. Additional information including a list of his publications is available on his PSE profile
Lise Rochaix
Lise Rochaix holds a Master in economics and a Ph.D from the Department of Economics and Related Studies, at York University (UK). She began her career as researcher at the French National Research Centre and subsequently became lecturer in economics at Dauphine University. She passed the national competition to become full professor in 1994 and was first appointed at the University of Western Brittany and then at GREQAM, at Aix-Marseille II. Her research interests focus on the evaluation of public policies, in an international comparative perspective, with both equity and efficiency considerations. She has worked with the forecasting division of the French Treasury between 1990 and 1993 and was one of the authors of the governmental report ‘Santé 2010’ which recommended the creation of regional health agencies. She was also a member of the Ministerial task force in charge of the reform of ambulatory care in 2002. In 2006, she was appointed by the President of the Senate to join the Board of the French National Health Authority (Haute Autorité de Santé –HAS). She was in charge of developing HAS’s economic remit and chaired the economics and public health evaluation committee (CEESP – Commission d’Evaluation Economique et de Santé Publique), in charge of the evaluation of health care strategies and new technologies, until the end of her mandate in January 2014. Since June 2014, she is at the department of economics of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is an Associate member of PSE and the Scientific Director of Hospinnomics, an endowed chair set up jointly by PSE and AP-HP. Additional information including a list of his publications is available on her PSE profile
Christian Thimann
Christian Thimann recently arrived in Paris, where he took up office as member of AXA’s Executive Committee and Group head of Strategy, Corporate Responsibility and Public Affairs. He was before at the European Central Bank as Director General and President’s adviser until 2013 in Frankfurt, working for Jean-Claude Trichet from 2008 to 2011 then for Mario Draghi from 2011 to 2013. He was closely involved in the management of the financial crisis and the strengthening of the Europa-zone, inter alia through the Fiscal Compact and the establishment Banking Union. He was in charge of the International Policy Analysis Division at the ECB and previously worked at the European and Asia Departments at the IMF in Washington. He received his PhD in economics from Munich University and graduated from the London School of Economics. He is joining PSE as an Associate Member. Additional information including a list of his publications is available on his Repec profile