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 or a career background that establishes their ability to conduct high-level, peer-reviewed scholarly research. Scholars are selected based upon a research proposal related to the Institute’s mission.
The application period for the 2018-2019 cohort of Visiting Scholars has closed.
Visiting Scholars
Douglas Almond
Senior Scholar
PROFESSOR
Columbia University
Research interests: health and applied microeconomics, infant health and the environment
David Argente
Scholar
Assistant Professor
Penn State University
Research interests: macroeconomics, monetary economics, firm dynamics and economic growth
Katarína Borovičková
Senior Scholar
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
New York University
Research interests: macroeconomics, labor market economics
Elizabeth Caucutt
Senior Scholar
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
University of Western Ontario
Research interests: macroeconomics, family economics, human capital
Robynn Cox
Senior Scholar
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
University of Southern California
Research interests: economics of crime, health economics, labor economics, housing insecurity, mass incarceration, prisoner reentry
Mariacristina De Nardi
Senior Scholar
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
University College London
Research interests: savings, wealth inequality, social security, entrepreneurship, and taxation
Lena Edlund
Senior Scholar
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Columbia University
Research interests: economics of gender and family
Eric French
Senior Scholar
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
University College London
Research interests: labor, public finance, health, applied econometrics
Elisa Giannone
Scholar
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Penn State
Research interests: macroeconomics, international trade, urban and regional economics
Loukas Karabarbounis
Senior Scholar
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Minnesota
Research interests: macroeconomics, labor economics, productivity, international finance
Tom Krebs
Senior Scholar
Professor of Economics
University of Mannheim
Research interests: macroeconomics, labor economics, financial economics
Jeremy Lise
Senior Scholar
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
University of Minnesota
Research interests: wage and employment dynamics, job mobility, human capital
Lance Lochner
Senior Scholar
Professor and Director
University of Western Ontario
Research interests: labor economics, economics of education, economics of crime
Trevon Logan
Senior Scholar
PROFESSOR AND CHAIRPERSON OF ECONOMICS
Ohio State University
Research interests: economic history, economic demography, applied microeconomics
Derek A. Neal
Senior Scholar
Professor in Economics
University of Chicago
Research interests: labor, black-white wage inequality, the economics of crime, education policy
Sophie Osotimehin
Senior Scholar
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
University of Virginia
Research interests: macroeconomics, business cycles, aggregate productivity, innovation and technological change, firm dynamics
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Senior Scholar
THEODORE A. WELLS ’29 PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Princeton University
Research interests: macroeconomics, international trade, urban and regional economics
Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis
Senior Scholar
Assistant Professor
Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics (MOVE); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
Research interests: inequality and the macroeconomy, intellectual property products, social insurance and productivity, HIV/AIDS and the macroeconomy
Aaron Sojourner
Senior Scholar
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
University of Minnesota
Research interests: labor economics, labor market institutions, human capital, early and K–12 education policy, consumer finance decisions
Thomas Winberry
Scholar
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
University of Chicago
Research interests: macroeconomics, firm dynamics, monetary policy, computational economics
Fang Yang
Senior Scholar
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Louisiana State University
Research interests: macroeconomics, public finance, labor economics, wealth inequality, savings, and housing
