The appointment will reflect Professor Linton’s deep sector knowledge, as well as his passion for driving progress in economic research. His skills and experience will support the Faculty as it educates the next generation of economists.
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Andy Haldane(Chief Economist at the Bank of England) will give the next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity on "Whose Recovery?". The event will be held Wednesday 22 February 2017, 18:00 -19:30, in the Mill Lane Lecture Room 1.
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He is currently an Assistant Professor in Economics at Columbia University and obtained his PhD from Harvard University.
His research interest are Econometrics, statistics, factor models, large random matrices.
You can find more information on his research and publications on his new Faculty of Economics profile page.