Working Together For Inclusive Growth
Visiting Scholar Program
The Institute annually invites selected scholars to pursue research while in residence at the Minneapolis Fed. These scholars all have Ph.D.’s in the Social Sciences with a demonstrated ability to conduct high-level, peer-reviewed scholarly research. Scholars are selected based upon a research proposal related to the Institute’s mission.
Visiting Scholars
Lorenzo Caliendo
Short-Term Visitor
Professor of Economics
Yale University
Research interests: understanding and quantifying economic effects of international trade and migration
Javier Cravino
Short-Term Visitor
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Michigan
Research interests: international macroeconomics, trade
Morris A. Davis
Short-Term Visitor
Professor of Finance and Paul V. Profeta Chair of Real Estate
Rutgers University
Research interests: housing, macroeconomics
Ellora Derenoncourt
Short-Term Visitor
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Harvard University
Research interests: labor and public economics, economic history
Jonathan Dingel
Short-Term Visitor
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Research interests: international trade, economic geography, urban economics, segregation
Jennifer Doleac
Summer Semester Visitor
Associate Professor of Economics & Director, Justice Tech Lab
Texas A&M University
Research interests: crime and discrimination, with particular emphases on prisoner reentry and effects of technology on public safety
Fabian Eckert
Summer Semester Visitor
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Yale University
Research interests: international trade, economic geography, macroeconomics, urban economics
Misty Heggeness
Academic Year Visitor
Senior Advisor/Research Economist
U.S. Census Bureau
Research interests: dynamics of high-skilled scientific workforce, improvements to measures of poverty and inequality, gender economics
Mark Huggett
Spring Semester Visitor
Professor of Economics
Georgetown University
Research interests: macroeconomics, inequality, social insurance, computational methods
Loukas Karabarbounis
Minimum Wage Study
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Minnesota
Research interests: macroeconomics, labor economics, productivity, international finance
Jeremy Lise
Minimum Wage Study
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
University of Minnesota
Research interests: wage and employment dynamics, job mobility, human capital
Elena Manresa
Short-Term Visitor
Assistant Professor
New York University
Research interests: microeconometrics, empirical microeconomics, financial econometrics
Amanda Michaud
Academic Year Visitor
Associate Professor
University of Western Ontario
Research interests: macroeconomics: applied theory and quantitative, macro-labor, international macro
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Spring Semester Visitor
Assistant Professor of Economics
NYU Stern School of Business
Research interests: macroeconomics, public economics
Derek A. Neal
Alumni Visitor
William C. Norby Professor in Economics
University of Chicago
Research interests: labor, black-white wage inequality, the economics of crime, education policy
Michael Peters
Short-Term Visitor
Assistant Professor of Economics
Yale University
Research interests: macroeconomics, economic growth, development economics, international trade
Luigi Pistaferri
Short-Term Visitor
Professor of Economics
Stanford University
Research interests: labor economics, macroeconomics, public economics
Tommaso Porzio
Fall Semester Visitor
Assistant Professor of Economics
Columbia Business School
Research interests: macroeconomics, structural transformation, and economic development
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Alumni Visitor
THEODORE A. WELLS ’29 PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Princeton University
Research interests: macroeconomics, international trade, urban and regional economics
Chris Stoddard
Spring Semester Visitor
Professor
Montana State University
Research interests: economics of education (student loans, achievement, teacher labor markets), public economics, labor economics, health economics
David Wiczer
Fall Semester Visitor
Assistant Professor of Economics
Stony Brook University
Research interests: macroeconomics, labor economics
Kevin R. Williams
Academic Year Visitor
Associate Professor of Economics
Yale School of Management
Research interests: industrial organization, retailing and e-commerce, pricing, product variety
