UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2014-2022.
Visiting Scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago (BFI), April 2017.
Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Fall 2013.
Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (on leave from UCLA) 2017; 2021-2022.
Research
“A Theory of Pareto Distributions”, F. Geerolf, September 2017. [ pdf]
Revision requested at American Economic Review
“Reassessing Dynamic Efficiency”, F. Geerolf, September 2018. [ pdf] [ Ph.D. version (2013)] [ thesis]
“Dynamic Inefficiency and Capital Taxation”, F. Geerolf, April 2015. [ pdf]
“Leverage and Disagreement”, F. Geerolf, October 2018. [ pdf]
“A Theory of Demand Side Secular Stagnation”, F. Geerolf, June 2019. [ pdf]
“Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Investors”, F. Geerolf, June 2019. [ pdf]
“The Macroeconomic Effects of Lump-Sum Taxes”, F. Geerolf & T. Grjebine, November 2019. [ pdf] [ Online appendix]
Invited Seminars (Selected)
2021: Bank of Israel, Bank of France.
2020: Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, IMF.
2019: PSE, Harvard Econ, UCSD, Michigan, Chicago Fed, EIEF, UC Riverside.
2018: HEC.
2017: NYU Stern, USC Lusk, Stanford GSB, Zurich, Chicago Econ.
2016: Yale, Stanford, UC Riverside, Chicago Fed, Polytechnique, PSE.
2015: Wharton Econ, Wisconsin-Madison, USC, INSEAD, CIRED.
2014: UCSD, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, MIT, UPenn, HEC Finance, Fed Board, Harvard Econ, UCLA, NYU Econ, CREI.
Conference Presentations (Selected)
2021: SED Annual Meeting 2021 (Barcelona).
2019: Annual Conference Chaire Banque de France at PSE (Paris), 4th Annual California Macroeconomics Conference (Claremont).
2018: SED Annual Meeting 2018 (Mexico City) [ pdf], 9th Summer Macro-Finance Workshop (Paris).
2017: SED Annual Meeting 2017 (Edinburgh) [ pdf], Conference on Housing, Urban Development, and the Macroeconomy, INET (USC).
2016: NBER EF&G Meeting (Chicago), SED Annual Meeting 2016 (Toulouse) [ pdf], Bank of France Conference on Granularity (Paris), 5th HKUST International Workshop on Macroeconomics (Hong Kong).
2015: Chicago Initiative in Theory and Empirics (CITE) conference (Chicago), Minnesota Macro Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory (Minneapolis), SED Annual Meeting 2015 (Warsaw), 4th Junior Conference on Macroeconomics a.k.a Pizzanomics, Instituto Einaudi (Rome) [ pdf], 3rd GSE Summer Forum “Firms in the Global Economy” (Barcelona), INET-IMF Conference on Macroeconomic Externalities (Washington).
2014: SED Annual Meeting 2014 (Toronto), 2nd GSE Summer Forum (Barcelona), Cowles 10th Annual Conference on GE and its Applications (Yale), FRIC Top Finance Graduate Award Conference (Copenhaguen).
2013: Sveriges Riksbank Conference on “Bubbles” (Stockholm).
Discussions (Selected)
Conferences
IMF/EUI Conference on Secular Stagnation and Growth (Florence). [ html]
NBER Conference on Multiple Equilibria (San Francisco Fed). [ html]
Nemmers Prize Conference in honor of Jean Tirole (Northwestern). [ slides] [ html]
EABCN-INET Conference on Macro Stabilization (Cambridge).
Workshops
CEPII Workshop: Interplay between finance and macroeconomics in a global integration context (Paris), July 2019. Discussion of Austerity. [ html]
Teaching at UCLA
Evidence-Based Macroeconomics & Finance (UCLA, PhD 2nd year). [ Syllabus] [ Data]
Intermediate Macroeconomics (UCLA, Undergraduate). [ Syllabus]
Economics of Superstars (UCLA, Undergraduate). [ Syllabus]
Advising
Colin Weiss (First Placement: Federal Reserve Board).
Flavien Moreau (First Placement: International Monetary Fund).
Grants
UCLA Faculty Senate Grant 2015-2016.
UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate Research Grant 2014, 2016, 2018.
Refereeing (Selected)
American Economic Journal: Macro, American Economic Journal: Micro, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Theory, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Financial Studies, Theoretical Economics.
Professional Affiliations
Macro Finance Society.
CEPR Research Affiliate.
Organization
SED Program Committee Member 2016, 2017, 2018.
UCLA Conference on Housing and Macroeconomics, Co-organizer 2016. [ pdf]
West Coast Search and Matching Meeting, Co-organizer 2014.
Press coverage
“Kicking down the can down an endless road”, The Economist, September 2 2017. [ html] [ pdf]
Presentations
“Perspectives on inflation and real rates”, AFGAP Zoom Event, May, 20 2021. [ pdf]