Jean Imbs

Jean Imbs is a Professor of Economics. Before joining NYU Abu Dhabi, he was a Professor at the Paris School of Economics and a Research Director at France’s CNRS. He received a Master degree in International Business from HEC Paris, and a PhD in Economics from New York University. Until 2010, he was a Professor at the London Business School, and at the University of Lausanne.

Jean’s research focuses on international macroeconomics, with an interest in the consequences of microeconomic complexity for macroeconomic phenomena. He currently works on the rising importance of global supply chain and their global consequences. He has published in the major professional journals in Economics, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, or the Journal of International Economics.

Jean consults regularly with major policy institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, the European Commission, the Bank of England, the UK Treasury, and many other central banks around the world. He teaches a broad range of classes in macroeconomics, including international finance, economic growth, or monetary and fiscal policy, to graduate, undergraduate, and executive audiences. He has taught among others at Princeton University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, New York University, HEC Paris, and INSEAD.

Education:

• 1999 New York University, Ph.D. in Economics
• 1992 HEC School of Management, Paris, BA and M.Sc. in Business Economics

Research Areas:

Macroeconomics, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade

Courses Taught

• ECON-GH 5620 Macroeconomics 2
• ECON-UH 2030 Intermediate Macroeconomics
• ECON-UH 3030 Economic Growth

Employment

• 2018- Global Network Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, New York University Abu Dhabi
• 2010- Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics (On leave 2019-2021) Directeur de Recherche, CNRS.
• 2004-2010 Professor of Economics, Dept. of Economics, Institute of Banking and Finance, HEC Lausanne (On leave 2010).
• 1999-2005 Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The London Business School (On leave 2003-2005).