Edouard Schaal

ICREA-CREI, UPF and BSE

faculty

PhD, Princeton University

Edouard Schaal is a ICREA Research Professor at CREI, Assistant Professor at UPF, and BSE Associate Research Professor. He is a research affiliate of CEPR. He has been assistant professor at New York University and a research economist at the United States Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Professor Schaal's main research topics are macroeconomics, labor markets, search and matching, informational frictions, business cycles and economic geography. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and Econometrica.

Schaal is a member of the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies, an editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, and an associate editor of the Economic Journal.

Awards, Grants, and Honors
  • BSE Associate Research Professor appointment (2020-2025)
  • ERC Starting Grant, "Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium" (2018)
  • BSE Seed Grant, "Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium" (2016)

Working Papers

Publications

Open Access       Edouard Schaal and Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel

Herding through booms and busts

Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.210, June 2023, 10.1016/j.jet.2023.105669
Open Access
Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, Amit Khandelwal, Wookun Kim, Cristiano Mantovani and Edouard Schaal

Optimal Lockdown in a Commuting Network

American Economic Review: Insights, Vol.3, No 4, 503-522, December 2021, 10.1257/aeri.20200401
Pablo D. Fajgelbaum and Edouard Schaal

Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium

Econometrica, Vol.88, No 4, 1411-1452, July 2020, 10.3982/ECTA15213