Nick Pretnar

Bio

Nick graduated from Tepper with a PhD in Economics in May of 2020. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a macroeconomist whose research focusses on growth, development, and household finance, specifically how behavioral phenomena determine agent-level consumption and savings decisions as well as macroeconomic outcomes. His work has been funded by the NSF and CMU’s PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation, among other institutions. He regularly consults for the Federal Reserve Bank’s of Saint Louis and Cleveland, and is frequently a visiting scholar at the European Central Bank and Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Nick has given seminars and lectures at universities and banks on every continent except Antarctica. For 2025-2026 he is visiting the economics department at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.

MSCF Courses

• Macroeconomics for Computational Finance