Gilles Saint-Paul

Biography

Gilles Saint-Paul is currently Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics. He graduated with a BSc from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1985 and obtained a PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. He is also Global University Professor at the New York University in Abu Dhabi and Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics and E-conomics, as well as Research Fellow at Centre for Economic Policy Research, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Center for Economic Studies.

Previously he held the positions of Researcher at CERAS and DELTA (1990-1997), Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1997-2000), Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics (2000-2006) and (2007-2012), and Professor at the Paris School of Economics (2006-2007).

His main areas of research are the political economy of labour markets, the macroeconomics of imperfect rationality, the political economy of beliefs and ideologies, and technical change and inequality.

Key journals in which his research has been published are the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Journal, and the Journal of the European Economic Association. In 2007 he received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics.