Information

Membership Number: FCA2507

Membership Type: Full Fellowship

Division: Social Sciences

Corresponding Email: philippe.aghion@insead.edu; philippe.aghion@college-de-france.fr; p.aghion@lse.ac.uk

Homepage(s): https://www.insead.edu/faculty/philippe-aghion 

https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/aghion-philippe/ 

Present and Previous Positions

2015-            Professor at Collège de France, Chair entitled “Institutions, Innovation,     et Croissance” 

2015-            Centennial Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

2020-            Professor at INSEAD

1986-87 ———— Sloan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

1987-89 ———— Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1989 ———— Chargé de Recherches au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

1990-1992 ———— Deputy Chief Economist, EBRD (London)

1992-96 ———— Official Fellow, Nuffield College (Oxford)

1992-2000 ———— Research Co-ordinator, EBRD (London)

1996-2002 ———— Professor of Economics, University College London (UCL)

2000-2002 ———— Professor of Economics, Harvard University

2002- 2015 ———— Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University

2009-2015 ———— Invited Professor, Institute of International Economic Studies, Stockholm

2018-2020         Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

1983 Doctorat de 3éme cycle d’Economie Mathématique, Université de Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne

1987 Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University

Economics of growth; Innovation Economics; "Schumpeterian Growth paradigm"

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

1991-97 ———— Associate Editor, Review of Economic Studies

1991- ———— Fellow of CEPR and of the European Financial Network

1991- ———— Member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE (Prague)

1992- ———— Managing Editor, The Economics of Transition

1992- ———— Fellow, Econometric Society

1992-95 ———— Associate Editor, Econometrica

1995-2000 ———— Council, European Economic Association

1998-2006 ———— CEPR Program Director in Industrial Organization

2008-2016 ———— Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics

2009- ————  Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science

2015- ———— Foreign Fellow of the British Academy

2016- ———— Managing Editor, Annual Reviews in Economics

2016-2017 ———— President of the European Economic Association

2016-2017 ———— President of the French Economic Association

2017- ———— Economic Theory Fellow

Honors and Awards

2000        Prix de la Revue Francaise d’Economie

2001        Yrjo Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association

2005        Honorary Doctorate, Stockholm School of Economics

2006        Medaille d’Argent du CNRS

2006        Schumpeter Prize of the International Schumpeter Society

2009        John Von Neumann Award

2016        Global Award in Entrepreneurship Research

2017        AEA Award for best AEJ paper

2017        Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association

2017        Sun Yefang Award

2018        Honorary Doctorate, University of Tucuman

2020        BBVA Frontier of Knowledge Award

2021        Honorary Doctorate, Universite de Liege

2022        Erasmus Medal

2022        Prix Jean-Jacques Laffont, Toulouse School of Economics

2023        Honorary Doctorate, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM)

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CPLK16oAAAAJ 

Book

The Economics of Growth, By Philippe Aghion and Peter W. Howitt, MIT Press (2008)

Endogenous Growth Theory, By Philippe Aghion and Peter W. Howitt, MIT Press (1997)

Other Information

https://scholar.harvard.edu/aghion/home 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Aghion 

https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/faculty/philippe-aghion