Professor Christian Hellwig

Christian Hellwig is an economic theorist with interests in macroeconomics, finance, and game theory. He obtained a PhD in economics in 2002 from the London School of Economics. Hellwig joined the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002 as an assistant professor in 2002, and was promoted to tenured associate professor in 2007. In his research, Hellwig has studied the role of information for coordination problems, financial markets and the macro economy. He has also worked on frictions in lending markets and on the role of pricing frictions for inflation and aggregate price adjustment. Among others, Hellwig’s work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Political Economy.