Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Assistant Professor

Fields: Macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, finance

Research interests: International financial integration, external adjustment, exchange rate dynamics; consumption, precautionary savings, lending booms, fiscal federalism, forward premium puzzle, labor market and exchange rates

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas grew up in France where he attended Ecole Polytechnique. He received his PhD in 1996 from MIT and taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University before joining the Berkeley economics department in 2003 as an assistant professor. He also is a Faculty Research Fellow with NBER and a Research Fellow with CEPR (London).

Professor Gourinchas is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Banque de France. He is associate editor of Journal of the European Economics Association and Journal of International Economics. He was an NBER National Fellow in 1999-2000, and the recipient of the Princeton University Bicentennial Preceptorship in 2001-2004.