Yale welcomes new assistant professor Michael Peters

Michael Peters is a macroeconomist with a focus on development economics and long run economic growth. He has worked on the importance of imperfect competition in product markets in Indonesia, the process of creative destruction — or lack thereof — in the manufacturing sector in India and the long-run consequences of population movements in Europe after the Second World War. After receiving his PhD from MIT, Michael spent one year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cowles Foundation and subsequently held an assistant professor position at the London School of Economics.