Jean-Louis Arcand (born 1964) is a Canadian economist. He is a professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he also head of the PhD Development Economics programme. Arcand is also the head of the Department of Economics at the Graduate Institute. He is president of the

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, a founding fellow of the European Union Development Network and senior fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international.

Diplomas

Jean-Louis Arcand holds a PhD in economics from MIT.

Contributions

In 2012 Jean-Louis authored (with

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and Ugo Panizza) the IMF working paper

Too Much Finance "Too Much Finance?" is a scholarly paper by Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes, and Ugo Panizza. The paper was originally described in a 2011 VoxEU column, in 2012 it was issued as IMF working paper, and in 2015 was published by the Journal of Econ ...

which establishes that:

Career

Jean-Louis Arcand is Director of the

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and a member of the

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, and Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, which he joined in 2008. From 2009 to 2012 he was chair of Development Studies. He is a Founding Fellow of the European Union Development Network (EUDN) and Senior Fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international (FERDI). He was assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Montréal, and Professor at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches en Développement International (CERDI).

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at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies website 1964 births Living people Canadian economists MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies {{Canada-economist-stub