Nationality French Awards Yrjo Jahnsson Award | Name Helene Rey | |
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Alma mater Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales | ||
Professor h l ne rey on brexit london business school
Hélène Rey (born 1970) is a French economist who serves as Professor at London Business School (LBS).
Contents
- Professor h l ne rey on brexit london business school
- H l ne rey on monetary policy and international capital flows part 1
- Life and career
- Economic research
- Awards and recognition
- Book chapters
- Journal articles
- Papers
- References
H l ne rey on monetary policy and international capital flows part 1
Life and career
Born to a teacher and an engineer she grew up in Brioude in South-Central France.
She received a Master of Science degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1994. She has Ph.Ds from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and London School of Economics, both in 1998. After working as a lecturer at LSE 1997–2000 she was assistant professor and later professor (2006) at Princeton University where she also worked at Bendheim Center for Finance and Woodrow Wilson School.
Her work focuses on international trade, financial imbalances, financial crises and the international monetary system.
She was a member of the Conseil d'analyse économique which advises the French Prime Minister on economic matters 2010–2012. and is since 2012 a member of the Commission Economique de la Nation which advises the Finance Minister of France.
She is a regular contributor the French magazine Les Échos.
In 2013 she became the first woman to win the Yrjö Jahnsson Award, sharing the prize with Thomas Piketty.
Rey is married to fellow professor of economics Richard Portes and the couple have a daughter. They live in London.
Economic research
Rey is credited with ground-breaking research into the structure of international payments and capital flows. By examining the balance sheets of creditor and debtor nations, she offered new insights into relative returns on cross-border investments. She explained her approach in an interview with the Financial Times, which wrote, "She also showed why the US is the world’s banker. “We called it ‘the US’s exorbitant privilege’. The US earns more on external assets than it pays on external liabilities. It has an excess return on the order of 2 per cent ... So it issues a lot of government bonds that are happily bought by the rest of the world.”
Awards and recognition
