Hélène Rey

Hélène Rey
Born Brioude, France
Nationality French
Institution London Business School (LBS)
Alma mater Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Awards Yrjö Jahnsson Award
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Hélène Rey is a French economist who serves as Professor at London Business School (LBS).

Life and career

Born to a teacher and an engineer she grew up in Brioude in South-Central France.[1]

She received a Master of Science degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1984. She has Ph.Ds from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and London School of Economics, both in 1988. 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.[2][3]

Her work focuses on international trade, financial imbalances, financial crises and the international monetary system.[4]

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.[3]

She is a regular contributor the French magazine Les Échos.[3]

In 2013 she became the first woman to win the Yrjö Jahnsson Award, sharing the prize with Thomas Piketty.[1]

Rey is married to fellow professor of economics Richard Portes and the couple have a daughter. They live in London.[1]

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.”[5][6]

Awards and recognition

Selected works

Book chapters

Journal articles

Papers

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 3 Annie Maccoby Berglof (14 June 2014) At home: Hélène Rey Financial Times.
  2. 1 2 HÉLÈNE REY CV. London School of Economics
  3. 1 2 3 Bio Homesite. LSE. Archived at WebCite.
  4. 1 2 Boby Michael (27 August 2014) IMF Lists 25 Brightest Young Economists International Business Times
  5. ↑ Berglof, Annie Maccoby (June 14, 2013). "At home: Hélène Rey". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Rey and Gourinchas (August 2005). "From World Banker to World Venture Capitalist: US External Adjustment and The Exorbitant Privilege∗" (PDF). NBER Conference.

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