We are pleased to announce that four new faculty members will join the Department of Economics:
Patrick Kehoe will be the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance. He is currently the Frenzel Professor of International Economics at the University of Minnesota, and a Monetary Adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Patrick received his B.A. in mathematics and Russian from Providence College and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1986. He serves on several editorial boards and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Kehoe has published extensively in international macroeconomics and macroeconomics.
Alexandre Mas will be appointed as a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. He comes to us from the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Mas received his B.A. in economics and mathematics at MacCalester College, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. A prominent labor economist, Mas plans to spend 2009-10 at the Department of Labor before returning to Princeton.
Oleg Itskhoki will be appointed as an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs in 2010-2011, after completing a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton’s International Economics Section. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc in economics at Moscow State University, and his Ph.D. at Harvard University. Itskhoki’s research is in international trade and macroeconomics.
David Sraer will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Economics. Sraer received his B.A. from Ecole Polytechnique, and his Ph.D. from I.D.E.I, Université des Science Sociales in Toulouse, and E.H.E.S.S. in Paris. For the past two years, he has been a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Sraer works in the areas of corporate finance, industrial organization and firm organization.