Prof. Aghion's Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth chair, created in 2015, comprises more than twenty researchers. Its aim is to drive cutting-edge research on the economics of innovation, the environment, productivity and firm dynamics, and household income mobility.

Pr Aghion's lectures tackle some of the major growth conundrums : the role of competition and industrial policy ; the " Argentine paradox " and underdevelopment traps ; the relationship between innovation, inequality and social mobility ; and the apparent secular stagnation of developed economies. Finally, the lectures offer a new way of thinking about growth policies, and of learning about the mechanisms of growth from the errors of economic policy.