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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-- One of the world's leading economists, this eminent professor will conduct

post- COVID-19 research on finance and growth at SKEMA Business School for the

2020-2021 academic year.

Andrei Shleifer is among the world's most highly cited economists for his

research work. He has taken a year leave from the Harvard campus, where he has

been teaching since 1991, to join SKEMA as a visiting professor.

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Alice Guilhon, SKEMA's dean, is delighted with his arrival: "Andrei is

recognised as one of the world's leading economists. He can make a significant

contribution to SKEMA's research, particularly in the crucial area of French

and European post-COVID-19 financial and economic recovery."

Florencio Lopez de Silanes, associate dean for academic strategy at SKEMA and

professor of finance and economics, with whom Andrei Shleifer will continue to

work, underlines a historic cooperation between them: "We have been co-authors

for over 25 years, starting at Harvard where we spent several years together

and helped create the area of "Law and Finance."

The economists will work together on the assignment from September 15, 2020, to

August 31, 2021. Based at the Sophia Antipolis campus, Andrei will have access

to SKEMA's resources from its three sites in France for his research work.

Helping leaders boost growth

Professors Lopez de Silanes and Shleifer will work this year on several

research projects at SKEMA. One of these projects will study the factors that

determine investment and are at the origin of macroeconomic development and

employment growth. This issue is key in France and Europe in the context of the

current economic recession created by the health crisis linked to COVID-19.

The expectations of economic agents condition their consumption and investment

decisions. Therefore, a turnaround in expectations towards greater optimism is

essential for economic recovery. As a global expert in the formation of macroeconomic

expectations, Professor Shleifer will work with Professor Lopez de Silanes and other

researchers to try to understand how European companies form expectations and

how these impact investment choices, and thus, economic growth.

Press contact: Christine Cassabois, christine.cassabois@skema.edu

SOURCE:  SKEMA Business School