Thomas Philippon

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Thomas Philippon
BornMay 1974 (1974-05) (age 49)
NationalityFrench
Academic career
Institution New York University, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, French Prudential Supervisory Authority
Alma mater MIT, Paris School of Economics, EHESS, Ecole Polytechnique
Doctoral
advisor		 Olivier Blanchard [1]
Ricardo J. Caballero [1]
Awards Bernácer Prize, Michael Brennan Award, Brattle Prize
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Thomas Philippon (born May 1974) is a French economist and professor of finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. [2]

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Career

Philippon earned a MA in Physics in 1997 from École Polytechnique, a Master in Economics in 1998 from the Paris School of Economics, and a PhD in Economics in 2003 from MIT. In 2003 he was hired as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Stern, and he has been a Professor of Finance since 2014. [3]

In addition to his professorship at NYU, Philippon has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, and Princeton University. He joined the Monetary Policy Advisory Panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2015. He also serves as the Scientific Committee Director at the French Prudential Supervisory Authority, as an associate editor of the American Economic Journal, and as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. [3]

Ahead of the 2012 French presidential election, Philippon co-signed an appeal of several economists in support of candidate François Hollande. [4]

According to Google Scholar, Philippon's academic papers have been cited nearly 5000 times in the past 5 years. Most notably his paper "CEO Incentives and Earnings Management" has been referenced over 2000 times. [5]

Awards

Selected works

Books

  1. "Le Capitalisme d'héritiers. La crise française du travail." La République des Idées, Seuil, 2007, Prize for Best Book on Human Resources Management
  2. "The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets" Belknap Press, 2019, Amazon Best Sellers

Academic Articles

  1. "Has the U.S. Finance Industry Become Less Efficient?" (2014) (forthcoming in American Economic Review)
  2. "Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Financial System", forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Studies
  3. "An International Look at the Growth of Modern Finance" with Ariell Reshef, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(2), Spring 2013, pp. 73–96.
  4. "Efficient Recapitalization," with Philipp Schnabl, Journal of Finance, February 2013, lead article
  5. "Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006," with Ariell Reshef, Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2012, lead article
  6. "Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection," with Vasiliki Skreta, American Economic Review, February 2012, lead article
  7. "Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations," with Holger Mueller, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2011, 3(2): 218–45
  8. "Debt Overhang and Recapitalization in Closed and Open Economies," IMF Economic Review (inaugural issue), 2010
  9. "Financiers versus Engineers: Should the financial sector be taxed or subsidized? American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2010, 2(3): 158–82.
  10. "The bond market's Q", Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2009, 124(3), 1011–56
  11. "The economics of fraudulent accounting," with Simi Kedia, Review of Financial Studies, June 2009, Brennan & BlackRock Award 2010
  12. "Estimating Risk-Adjusted Costs of Financial Distress," with Heitor Almeida, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 2008
  13. "The risk-adjusted cost of financial distress," with Heitor Almeida, Journal of Finance, December 2007, lead article, Brattle Prize 2008
  14. "Firms and aggregate dynamics," with Francesco Franco, Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2007
  15. "Corporate governance over the business cycle," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, November 2006
  16. "CEO incentives and earnings management," with Daniel Bergstresser, Journal of Financial Economics, June 2006
  17. "The rise in firm-level volatility: causes and consequences," with Diego Comin, NBER Macroannuals, 2005
  18. "The impact of differential payroll tax subsidies on minimum wage employment", with Francis Kramarz Journal of Public Economics, 2001

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References

  1. 1 2 Philippon, Thomas (2003). Three essays in macroeconomics (PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT . Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Thomas PHILIPPON | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org.
  3. 1 2 "Vita: Thomas Philippon" (PDF). pages.stern.nyu.edu. October 2017. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  4. ↑ Nous, économistes, soutenons Hollande Le Monde , April 17, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Thomas Philippon - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.
  6. ↑ "Thomas Philippon's contribution to macro-finance". European Central Bank. 3 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "The Econometric Society Announces its 2020 Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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