Curriculum Vitae: Dr Ben Broadbent
Employment
| 2000-11 | Senior European Economist
Goldman Sachs
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| 1997-2000 | Assistant Professor, Deparment of Economics
Columbia University
New York
NY 10017, USA
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| 1989-91 &
1993-96 | Economic Adviser
H.M.Treasury
London SW1P 3AG
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Education
| 1991-93 &
1996-97 | PhD in Economics
Harvard University
Fulbright Scholar
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| 1984-88 | B.A. (First Class)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge Univeristy
Bateman Scholar
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| 1983-84 | Piano Performance Diploma
Ecole Normal Superieure de la Musique, Paris
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Publications
"Does Favorable Tax-Treatment of Housing Reduce Equipment
Investment?" (with Michael Kremer), Journal of Public
Economics, 1999
"Central Bank Preferences and Macroeconomic Equilibrium"
(with Robert Barro), Journal of Monetary Economics, 1997
Various Working Papers, Columbia University and H.M.Treasury
Selected Research at Goldman Sachs
Consumer behaviour
UK Households Borrowing More, Spending Less (09/03)
MEW is a Red Herring (05/05)
How Big is the UK Savings Gap (05/05)?
Labour market
Warning! Structural Unemployment Can Go Up as Well as Down (05/06).
Rising Vacancies: a Mild Case of Mismatch (06/07).
Firm Behaviour
Tech Boom to Tech Bust: the Duration of the Collapse in ICT Spending
(02/02)
Spare Capacity Not a Barrier to Investment Growth (11/09)
How Big a Problem is Small Company Finance? (12/10)
Financial Crisis
A Second Leg to the Crisis (08/08)
Mortgage Losses, Banks' Losses (03/09)
Secured Lending Not So Insecure (10/10)
The Savings Glut, the Return on Capital and the Rise in Risk Aversion
(06/09)
Asset prices/policy
Asset Prices and the Conduct of UK Monetary Policy (09/00)
Should the MPC Have Pre-Announced the Hike? (08/06)
Are UK Houses Expensive? (11/03)
Fiscal Consolidation and the Exchange Rate (08/09)
Can the UK Achieve a Smooth Transition to EMU? (02/03)
The Art of QE (04/09)
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