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Romain Rancière

Romain Ranciere is Professor at the Paris School of Economics (PSE), a Research Affiliate of the CEPR (London), and the Scientific Director of the Banque de France Chaire at PSE. His research focus is international finance and economic growth. He has written extensively on financial fragility and financial crises and their long run growth consequences. His articles appear in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Development Economics.

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Leveraging Inequality

Paper Conference paper | By Romain Rancière | Apr 2012

Long periods of unequal incomes spur borrowing from the rich, increasing the risk of major economic crises

Unequal=Indebted

Paper Conference paper | By Romain Rancière | Apr 2012

Higher income inequality in developed countries is associated with higher domestic and foreign indebtedness

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Inequality, Globalization, and Macroeconomics

USC Dornsife INET presents a conference on inequality, globalization, and macroeconomics

Event Conference | Apr 28–29, 2017

April 28-29, 2017, USC Dornsife INET is hosting a conference on inequality, globalization, and macroeconomics at the University of Southern California. The goal of this conference is to bring together leading researchers to discuss and present new approaches and new results on the relationships between inequality and macroeconomics and between inequality and globalization. Please direct any questions or comments to [email protected].