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Thomas Philippon

Thomas Philippon is Charles Schaefer Family Assistant Professor of Finance at New York University - Stern School of Business.

His research focuses on finance and macroeconomics. It includes empirical and theoretical work on corporate governance and labor relations, accounting manipulations, the costs of financial distress, dynamic agency models and firm dynamics, the link between asset markets and corporate investment, and the evolution of the finance industry.

Philippon graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, received a PhD in Economics from MIT, and joined New York University in 2003.

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Thomas Grennes is a professor of economics at the North Carolina State University and a former visiting faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. His research has dealt with various aspects of international economics, including open economy macroeconomics, international finance, and international trade in agricultural products. Recent research topics have included macroeconomic aspects of the Great Moderation, offshore outsourcing, sovereign wealth funds, and the relationship between government debt and economic growth. Earlier work dealt with emerging market issues in the Baltic countries and Russia and trade and macro policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic history topics include the Columbian Exchange of plants and animals, the effects on food markets of introducing mechanical refrigeration, and the integration of Tsarist Russia into the world grain market. When he is not involved in economics, he enjoys mountain hiking.

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