The Department of European Economic Studies holds its 23th European Economy Lecture by Professor dr. Jan EECKHOUT.
The title of the speech is 'The Profit Paradox'.
Professor dr. Jan EECKHOUT is the ICREA Research Professor of Economics at UPF Barcelona. He studies the macroeconomic implications of market power, and the economics of labor markets and cities.
He is the author of the book ‘The Profit Paradox’ and of numerous research articles in the top economics journals. His research has featured in the media, including The Economist, WSJ, FT, NYT and Bloomberg. He has been a tenured professor at UPenn and UCL as well as the Louis Simpson Visiting Professor at Princeton. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the EEA and Academia Europaea. He received his PhD from LSE.