Nick Pretnar

Adjunct Professor of Economics

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Bio

Nick graduated from Tepper with a PhD in Economics in May of 2020. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In summer and fall of 2020, he is a visiting scholar at the Tepper School of Business. His research focusses on 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.

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University - Ph D (Economics) - 2020
• Carnegie Mellon University - MS (Economics) - 2018
• University of Missouri - BA (English) - 2015
• University of Missouri - BS (Mathematics) - 2015
• University of Missouri - BS (Economics) - 2015

Publications

• Who Will Care for All the Old People?

  Live Long and Prosper? The Economics of Ageing Populations (David Bloom, ed.)
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar, Finn Kydland)
  VoxEU, 2019

Working Papers

• The Costs and Benefits of Caring: Aggregate Burdens of an Aging Population
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar, Finn Kydland)
  NBER Working Paper #25498, 2019
• Durables, Non-Durables, and a Structural Test of Fungibility
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar, Alan Montgomery, Christopher Olivola)
  2018
• The Intergenerational Welfare Implications of Disease Contagion
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar)
• Two-stage Budgeting with Bounded Rationality
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar, Alan Montgomery, Christopher Olivola)
• Home Production with Time to Consume
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar, Bill Bednar)
• Explaining the Credit Card Debt Puzzle with Heterogeneous Liquidity Fungibility
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar)
• Estimating Dynamic Mental Accounting Beliefs Using Financial Dashboard Data
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar, Chuck Howard, Marcel Lukas)
• Accounting for Durable Consumption to Solve the Equity Premium Puzzle
  (author(s): Nicholas Pretnar, Bill Bednar)