Jean-Paul L'Huillier

Assistant Professor of Economics

Departments/Programs

Economics
International Business School

Degrees

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D.

Expertise

Primary: Macroeconomics (Information Frictions, Monetary Economics, Business Cycles)
Secondary: Experimental Economics

Profile

I am on leave from the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF). I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University in 2013. I hold a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010). A Bolivian national, I was born in La Paz, Bolivia. Webpage

Courses Taught

ECON	82b	Macroeconomic Theory
ECON	304a	Advanced Macroeconomics II
ECON	307f	Applied Methods I
ECON	399a	Dissertation Workshop

Awards and Honors

Nominated for "Académico de Número de la Academia Boliviana de Ciencias Económicas" (2018 - 2019)

Scholarship

L'Huillier, Jean-Paul. "Consumer Imperfect Information and Endogenous Price Rigidity." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (2019). (forthcoming)

L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Yoo, Donghoon. "Where is the GE? Consumption Dynamics in DSGEs." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2019). (forthcoming)

L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Phelan, Gregory; Wieman, Hunter. "Minsky Cycles: A Technology-Based Theory of Financial Crises and Macroeconomic Slumps.

Flemming, Jean; L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Piguillem, Facundo. "Macro-Prudential Taxation in Good Times." Journal of International Economics 121 (2019).

L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Schoenle, Raphael. "Raising the Inflation Target: How Much Extra Room Does It Really Give?.

L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Shakhnov, Kirill; Simon, Laure. "Short- and Long-Run News: Evidence from Giant Mineral Discoveries.

L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Zame, William R.. "Optimally Sticky Prices: Foundations.

L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Zame, William R.. "The Flattening of the Phillips Curve and the Learning Problem of the Central Bank.

Cao, Dan; L'Huillier, Jean-Paul. "Technological Revolutions and the Three Great Slumps: A Medium-Run Analysis." Journal of Monetary Economics 96. (2018): 93-108.

Blanchard, Olivier; Lorenzoni, Guido; L'Huillier, Jean-Paul. "Short-Run Effects of Lower Productivity Growth. A Twist on the Secular Stagnation Hypothesis." Journal of Policy Modeling (2017).

Blanchard, Olivier; L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Lorenzoni, Guido. "News, Noise, and Fluctuations: An Empirical Exploration." American Economic Review (2013).