Junior Research Prize 2024
The annual Macroeconomic Risk Chair Junior Research Prize distinguishes outstanding research in the field of macroeconomic risk conducted by junior economists (less than ten years after the PhD) via a selection committee headed by Gilles Saint-Paul (PSE, ENS-PSL), scientific director of the chair.
The Junior Research Prize 2024 will be awarded to Joao Guerreiro (UCLA), Jonathon Hazell (LSE), Chen Lian (University of California, Berkeley) and Christina Patterson (The University of Chicago) for their work entitled “Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs“.
The conference will be held online (Zoom).
To attend, please register via the online form (before Monday, June 9).
The authors
Joao Guerreiro is a macroeconomist focusing in business cycles, fiscal policy, inequality, and imperfect expectations. He also works on understanding the consequences of demographic and technological changes for inequality and the optimal response of public policy. He is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. He graduated from Northwestern University with a PhD in Economics in June 2023.
Jonathon Hazell is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics, affiliated with the Center for Macroeconomics, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He serves as an associate editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge, where he received the Adam Smith Prize, and his PhD in economics from MIT.
Chen Lian is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Economics. He works on macroeconomics, behavioral economics, and finance. He received his PhD in economics from MIT.
Christina Patterson studies macroeconomics and labor economics, with a focus on how inequality across workers and firms can affect the economy’s response to shocks. Her research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, AEJ: Macroeconomics, and European Economic Review. She earned a PhD in economics from MIT, and holds a BA in mathematics and economics from Columbia University.
The Macroeconomic Risk Chair aims to promote the development and dissemination of research into a number of areas linked to the issue of macroeconomic risk, the macroeconomic effects of uncertainty, the financial and macroeconomic contagion effects of crises and the long-term risks.