Fernández-Villaverde and Krueger Elected Fellows of Econometric Society

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Dirk Krueger, Fellows of the Econometric Society.

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Professor and Graduate Chair of Economics, and Dirk Krueger, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, have been elected fellows of the Econometric Society. They are among 46 new fellows from around the world named by the society, which is dedicated to the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics.

Fernández-Villaverde specializes in macroeconomics and econometrics, with a focus on the computation and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, the standard tool of modern quantitative macroeconomics. He is a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Penn's Population Studies Center, and a research affiliate for the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Krueger is an internationally recognized macroeconomist who has made important contributions to the understanding of aggregate consumption dynamics, the impact of recessions on the income distribution, and heterogeneous agent macroeconomics more broadly. He is a research associate at NBER, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, and of Netspar, in Tilburg, Netherlands, and currently serves as managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies.

 

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