Alexandre Gaillard

Professor Alexandre Gaillard is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University, specializing in Macroeconomics and International Trade. He holds a PhD from Toulouse School of Economics (2022) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University's JRCPPF from 2022-2023. His research focuses on microeconomic heterogeneity's macroeconomic implications, inequality dynamics, taxation policies, and the role of markups in international trade. He teaches courses in Intermediate Macroeconomics and hosts graduate workshops on macroeconomic topics.

Research interests include:

• Macroeconomic inequality and taxation mechanisms
• Global value chains and trade linkages
• Self-employment dynamics and unemployment insurance
• Quantitative analysis of productivity and GDP correlations

His recent work explores the distributional effects of consumption and wealth inequality, fiscal stimulus effects during supply disruptions, and the evaluation of self-employment programs. He is affiliated with Brown University's Economics department and maintains active research collaborations in quantitative macroeconomics.