Jean M Imbs

Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD New York University

Research Areas: Macroeconomics, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade


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's 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, and 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, and 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.

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