Murphy-Economics Seminar: Jean-Paul L’Huillier

Each semester The Murphy Institute sponsors a series of seminars organized by the Tulane Department of Economics that provides an opportunity for faculty, researchers, and practitioners to present their latest research and pressing issues related to topics in political economy. Research presented covers all aspects of contemporary economics, including the economics of education, health economics, and public economics, as well as in economic history, international economics, and core areas in political economy. 

Jean-Paul L'Huillier is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Brandeis University. Previously, he worked as Senior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and was a visiting Faculty member at Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An expert in the study of business cycles, his recent research concentrates on how to perform suitable monetary policies in environments of chronic liquidity traps, and on understanding medium-term macroeconomic boom-bust cycles. He has published more than 10 academic articles in refereed journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. His recent research has been cited by prominent international media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Le Monde.