Macroeconomics Seminar with Dirk Krueger (UPenn)

Dirk Krueger is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). He holds a secondary appointment at Wharton’s Finance Department.  He is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the European Economic Association, and of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET). He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Penn’s Population Studies Center, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), at Netspar, and at the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is the Editor of the International Economic Review.

His research has focused on whether, how and to what extent risk, a central concern in macroeconomics, is shared across households or groups of households. His research has strong links to other fields of economics, especially public finance and labour economics, and combines economic theory with empirical and computational methods to answer research questions that are of immediate policy relevance.

Dirk Krueger's website

He will present a paper, joint with Alexander Ludwig and Irina Popova, at the next Macroeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Population Aging and the Market for Higher Education: Implications for Education Finance Reform (read slides, PDF 2.8 MB)