Florin Bilbiie joined the Department of Economics at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne, on August 1st, 2018, as a full professor.
Florin Bilbiie obtained his PhD in Economics from the European University Institute EUI in Florence (Italy) in 2004, and was awarded the Rotary Prize for the best thesis defended during 2003-2007.
Before joining the University of Lausanne, Florin has been professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics PSE (France) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Scientific Director of Chair Banque de France, and member of Institut Universitaire de France.
Before that, he taught at HEC Paris and Oxford University (Nuffield College, England); he held visiting positions with several central banks (European Central Bank, Bank of England, Sveriges Riksbank, etc.) and with the National Bureau of Economic Research NBER in Cambridge, Massachussetts, with New York University and CREI Barcelona.
Florin is a Research Fellow of the CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research) in Washington (USA) one of the main editors of the European Economic Review.
Florin’s research focuses on business cycles and the role, effects and optimal design of monetary and fiscal policies, in macroeconomic models including: firm entry/exit and product creation; heterogeneous consumers, incomplete markets or limited participation, and/or complementarities between consumption and work.
His research was published in Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, among others.