Philippe AGHION

Bio

Current functions

• Professor at the Collège de France, on the Chair entitled “Institutions, Innovation and Growth”
• Visiting professor at the London School of Economics
• Editor of the Annual Reviews in Economics
• Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fellow at the Society of Ecomometry

Previous functions

• Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Professor of Economics, University College London (UCL)
• Official Fellow, Nuffield College,Member of the Executive and Supervisory committee of CERGE (Prague)
• Program Director of CEPR in Industrial Organization

Training

• Harvard University (Economics)
• 3rd cycle PhD in Mathematical Economics, Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Diploma of Advanced Studies in Mathematical Economics, Université de Paris I
• Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Mathematics Section)

Main publications

Books

• “The Power of Creative Destruction”, by P. Aghion, C. Antonin and S. Bunel, Odile Jacod, October 2020
• “Rethinking economic growth”, Fayard 2016
• “Changing the model” by P. Aghion, G.Cette and E. Cohen, Odile Jacob, April 2014
• “Handbook of Economic Growth” by Aghion P and Durlauf S, North-Holland: Elsevier, 2014
• "Rethinking the State" by P. Aghion and A. Roulet, Editions Seuil, 2011
• “The Economics of Growth” by P. Aghion and P. Howitt, MIT Press, 2009
• “Handbook of Economic Growth” by P. Aghion and S. Durlauf, North-Holland: Elsevier, 2005

Articles

• Innovation and Top Income Inequality, Aghion, P, Akcigit, U, Bergeaud, A, Blundell, R, and D. Hemous (2019), Review of Economic Studies, lead article.
• The Inverted-U Relationship Between Credit Access and Productivity Growth, Aghion, P, Bergeaud, A, Cette, G, Lecat, R and H. Maghin (2019), Coase Lecture, forthcoming in Economica.
• Monetary Policy, Product Market Competition, and Growth, Aghion, P, Farhi, E, and E. Kharroubi (2019), Coase Lecture, forthcoming in Economica.
• Missing Growth from Creative Destruction, Aghion, P, Bergeaud, A, Boppart, T, Klenow, P, and H. Li (2019), forthcoming in the American Economic Review.
• Path Dependence in Clean versus Dirty Innovation: Evidence from the Automotive Industry, Journal of Political Economy, 2016
• Creative Destruction and Subjective Well Being, Aghion, P, Akcigit, U, Deaton, A, and A. Roulet (2016) American Economic Review.
• Innovation and Institutional Ownership, de Aghion P, Vanreenen J, and Zingales L, American Economic Review 2013
• The Environment and Directed Technical Change, de Acemoglu D, Aghion P, Bursztyn L, and Hemous D, American Economic Review 2012
• Subgame Perfect Implementation with Unverifiable Information, de Aghion P, Fudenberg D, Holden R, Kunimoto T, and Tercieux O, Quarterly Journal of Economics 201
• Industrial Policy and Competition, by P. Aghion, M. Dewatripont, L. Du, A. Harrison and P. Legros, mimeo Harvard, 2012
• Path Dependence in Clean versus Dirty Innovation: Evidence from the Automotive Industry, in revision for the Journal of Political Economy, 2012
• Subgame Perfect Implementation with Imperfect information: Evidence from a laboratory Experiment, by Aghion P, Fehr E, Holden R, and T. Wilkening, mimeo Harvard, 2012

Main areas of expertise: Innovation; Growth; Institutions; Organization; Contracts.