Carnegie Mellon University

Inclusive Growth and Prosperity Initiative Faculty

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Laurence Ales

Associate Professor of Economics, Director of Undergraduate Research

Research Interests

Laurence Ales’ interests include income tax policy, the effects of technological change on labor demand and wages, and inequality in healthcare consumption. Laurence also heads the Global Challenges Competition, which presents undergraduate students with a pressing social problem and challenges them to combine data and economic reasoning to arrive at a policy recommendation.

David Childers

David Childers

Assistant Professor of Economics

Research Interests

David Childers’ area of interest is the solution of complex macroeconomic models with realistic distributions of wages, wealth, or other individual characteristics. Solving such models accurately is a critical step in the quantitative analysis of economic policy.

Alexey Kushnir

Associate Professor of Economics

Finn Kydland

Finn Kydland

University Professor of Economics and Richard P. Simmons Distinguished Professor, Emeritus; Nobel Laureate (2004)

Research Interests

Finn Kydland received the Nobel prize in 2004 in recognition of his seminal work on business cycles and policy inconsistency. This work has had a profound impact on modern economics. In recent years, Finn has studied the interacted effects of inflation and tax policy on economic growth.

Rebecca Lessem

Associate Professor of Economics

 

Max Risch

Assistant Professor of Accounting

 

Liyan Shi

Assistant Professor of Economics

alie shourideh

Ali Shourideh

Assistant Professor of Economics

Research Interests

Ali Shourideh studies the design and performance of government tax and spending programs. Recent areas of work include public pension reform, taxation of capital income, and the relationship between trade and tax policies.

Erina Ytsma

Assistant Professor of Accounting

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Ariel Zetlin-Jones

Associate Professor of Economics

Research Interests

Ariel Zetlin-Jones is interested in the effects of informational frictions on the structure and performance of financial markets, and their importance for the broader economy. Ariel also studies blockchain technology and its application to macroeconomics.