Prof. Philippe Bacchetta Ph.D.

Philippe Bacchetta is Swiss Finance Institute professor of economics at the University of Lausanne, chairman of the economics department and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London). He was director of the Study Center Gerzensee from 1998 to 2007. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Harvard University and his B.A. and M.S. in economics from the University of Lausanne. Philippe Bacchetta has taught at several universities in Europe and in the US. He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University, the IMF and the NBER and an academic consultant at various central banks. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association and has been president of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics and a member of the Swiss National Research Council. In 2011 he was awarded an Advanced Researcher Grant by the European Research Council. His research interests include open economy macroeconomics, financial crises, and monetary economics.