Karthik Sastry is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University since 2023, in the Department of Economics and the School for Public and International Affairs. He joined Princeton after completing a Prize Fellowship in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Economic Fluctuations and Growth program and the Environment and Energy Economics program.

He studies macroeconomics and, in particular, to understand the role of bounded rationality and social dynamics in business-cycle fluctuations and to model how societies adapt to climate change through policy changes and technological innovation. 

Karthik Sastry's website

He will present a paper, joint with Ariel Akerman, Jacob Moscona, and Heitor Pellegrina, at the next Macroeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution (read abstract, PDF 45 KB)

The next Macroeconomics Seminar will host Ben MOLL (LSE) on November 12th.