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Hélène Rey
@helene_rey
Lord Raj Bagri Professor of Economics @LBS VP @Cepr_org Member @americanacad @GroupofThirty @Cercle_eco Correspondante @ASMP_Officiel. Views are my own.
Joined April 2014
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    Last Emmanuel Farhi’s AER paper. “This ability to combine careful logic with sensitivity to the context .. is probably nowhere harder than in macroeconomics. There are few in any generation who can do it with Emmanuel’s panache, and our field is much less interesting without him”
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    Research matters. Well done Valerie Ramey.
    A Republican witness testified today that federal aid to states wouldn’t produce much economic growth. This is what happened next.
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    Tomorrow starts in Paris the conference in the honour of Emmanuel Farhi college-de-france.fr/site/en-philip… . @cepr_org @cdf_InnovLab Important to reread the beautiful article written by Jean Tirole on Emmanuel’s work in the Annual Review of Economics. www-annualreviews-org.lbs.idm.oclc.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
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    A great honour and a great pleasure to receive the #NABE2023 Adam Smith Award. @cepr_org @LBS
    NABE President Julia Coronado presents @LBS Professor @helene_rey with the #NABE2023 Adam Smith Award
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    It is a wonderful honour to receive the Bernhard Harms Prize. I am absolutely delighted and very much look forward to the conference. Thank you.
    We're delighted to announce that @helene_rey @LBS will be the recipient of this year's Bernhard Harms Prize. The ceremony will take place in Berlin in October and we're very much looking forward to it! 🗨️“Hélène Rey is an internationally outstanding scholar who has broadened the
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    Words fail. Emmanuel... So brilliant, so cultured, such a nice friend. So much to contribute. Immense sadness.
    A year ago, hiking Machu Picchu via the Sun Gate with ⁦@itskhoki⁩ and ⁦@helene_rey⁩. It hurts...
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    Renowned economist to lead LBS | London Business School
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    Replying to @ImranRasul3 @econromesh and 2 others
    People will not trust economists as long as they believe economists’ main job is to forecast. It is not. Nurses and doctors do not forecast. They try to prevent problems and heal. So do economists.
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    So true. "The point of saving for a rainy day is to spend when it rains, and preparing for pandemics, wars, climate crises, and other out-of-the-box events is precisely why open-ended deficit spending during booms is dangerous." Kenneth Rogoff @ProSyn prosyn.org/Q4coiHZ
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    He was a great scholar and a very remarkable human being. Benevolent and always thinking of the public good. Influential economist Stanley Fischer dies ft.com/content/71cf53… via @ft
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    Time for Europe to grow a spine. Defending Europe without the US: first estimates of what is needed. “Rapidly generating such increases requires an extraordinary effort, though experience shows market economies can do it.”
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    On top of the extraordinary honour, it was an amazing conference , exploring geoeconomics in depth. So many great papers, discussions and ideas for future research! Superb policy panels and keynotes as well. Thanks again @kielinstitute @pogourinchas @MSchularick @cepr_org
    🎉 Devoted, supportive, empowering, generous, caring, down to earth, full of energy, patient, risk-taking, inspiring ... impossible to capture the whole list of attributes @pogourinchas found for his good friend @helene_rey (with some help from colleagues, friends, co-authors,