Jan Eeckhout is ICREA Research Professor of Economics at UPF Barcelona. He studies the macroeconomic implications of market power, and the economics of labor markets and cities. He is the author of the book ‘The Profit Paradox’ and of numerous research articles in the top economics journals. His research has featured in the media, including The Economist, WSJ, FT, NYT and Bloomberg. He has been a tenured professor at UPenn and UCL as well as the Louis Simpson Visiting Professor at Princeton. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and Academia Europaea, and the former president and fellow of the European Economic Association. He received his PhD from LSE.