Nobel laureate economist faces harassment probe in US univ

WASHINGTON: A US university is investigating a Nobel laureate over sexual harassment allegations that the economist's attorney dismisses as "professional rivalry." Philip Dybvig, who shared this year's Nobel Prize in economics for research into bank failures, has been questioned in the past several weeks by the Title IX office at Washington University in St Louis, said his lawyer Andrew Miltenberg.
He said the allegations are "factually inaccurate". Dybvig, a longtime banking and finance professor at the university, didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Bloomberg News reported that it has reviewed emails that show that the Title IX office, which handles campus sexual harassment complaints, has reached out to at least three former students since October to interview them about claims. They're among a group of seven former students Bloomberg reported it had spoken with who allege Dybvig sexually harassed them. Most of the women Bloomberg interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity.