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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Andrew Atkeson is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within economics, econometrics, and finance, with a focus on modeling, infectious diseases, and economic theory.

Their recent scholarly output includes a range of papers addressing topics such as COVID-19 epidemiological modeling, economic impacts of the pandemic, and labor economics. Notable publications include:

  • On Using SIR Models to Model Disease Scenarios for COVID-19 (2020, Quarterly Review)
  • Behavior and the Transmission of COVID-19 (2021, AEA Papers and Proceedings)
  • Alternative facts regarding the labor share (2020, Review of Economic Dynamics)
  • Economic Benefits of COVID-19 Screening Tests with a Vaccine Rollout (2021, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • Understanding 100 Years of the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.: What is the Role of Family Firms? (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

The professional collaborations of Andrew Atkeson include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Jonathan Heathcote
  • Fabrizio Perri
  • Michael Droste
  • Michael J. Mina
  • James H. Stock

The researcher has contributed multiple publications to several academic venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Quarterly Review
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings

The main academic fields of study encompass Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Subfields of particular emphasis include:

  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Infectious Diseases

Key topics covered in their body of work are:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Economic theories and models
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact

Andrew Atkeson has been recognized with professional distinctions including:

  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (2005)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1995)

Best Publications

  • Pricing-to-Market, Trade Costs, and International Relative Prices

    Andrew Atkeson;Ariel Burstein

  • What Will Be the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in the US? Rough Estimates of Disease Scenarios

    Andrew Atkeson

  • What Will be the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in the US? Rough Estimates of Disease Scenarios

    Andrew Atkeson

  • Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

    Andrew Atkeson;Ariel Tomás Burstein

  • Are Phillips Curves Useful for Forecasting Inflation

    Andrew Atkeson;Lee E. Ohanian

  • On Efficient Distribution With Private Information

    Andrew Atkeson

  • Modeling and measuring organization capital

    Andrew Atkeson;Patrick Kehoe

  • International lending with moral hazard and risk of repudiation

    Andrew Atkeson

  • INTERNATIONAL LENDING WITH MORAL HAZARD AND RISK OF REPUDIATION

    Andrew Atkeson

  • Modeling and Measuring Organization Capital

    Andrew Atkeson;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Models of energy use: Putty-Putty versus Putty-Clay

    Andrew Atkeson;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Taxing Capital Income: A Bad Idea

    Andrew Atkeson;Varadarajan V Chari;Patrick Kehoe

  • Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates with Endogenously Segmented Markets

    Fernando Alvarez;Andrew Atkeson;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Time-Varying Risk, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates in General Equilibrium

    Fernando Alvarez;Andrew Atkeson;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Wealth-varying intertemporal elasticities of substitution: Evidence from panel and aggregate data☆

    Andrew Atkeson;Andrew Atkeson;Masao Ogaki

  • Do private capital markets insure regional risk? Evidence from the United States and Europe

    Andrew Atkeson;Andrew Atkeson;Tamim Bayoumi;Tamim Bayoumi

  • Efficiency and Equality in a Simple Model of Efficient Unemployment Insurance

    Andrew Atkeson;Robert E. Lucas Jr.

  • Reconsidering the Costs of Business Cycles with Incomplete Markets

    Andrew Atkeson;Christopher Phelan

  • How Deadly Is COVID-19? Understanding The Difficulties With Estimation Of Its Fatality Rate

    Andrew Atkeson

  • Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy

    Andrew Atkeson;Ariel T Burstein

  • Deflation and Depression: Is There an Empirical Link?

    Andrew Atkeson;Andrew Atkeson;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • The optimal degree of discretion in monetary policy

    Susan Athey;Andrew Atkeson;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Rate of Time Preference, Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution, and Level of Wealth

    Masao Ogaki;Andrew Atkeson

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Kehoe
Patrick J. Kehoe Stanford University
Fernando Alvarez
Fernando Alvarez University of Chicago
Ariel Burstein
Ariel Burstein University of California, Los Angeles
Varadarajan V. Chari
Varadarajan V. Chari University of Minnesota
Harold L. Cole
Harold L. Cole University of Pennsylvania
Tao Zha
Tao Zha Emory University
Robert E. Lucas
Robert E. Lucas University of Chicago
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull University of Pennsylvania
Susan Athey
Susan Athey Stanford University
James H. Stock
James H. Stock Harvard University

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