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Presenter Biographies
Nikolai Roussanov is the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a research associate in the NBER Asset Pricing program. His research focuses on empirical analysis of capital market returns. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Financial Economics and the past president of the Macro Finance Society.
Phillip Levine is the Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, and research associate in four NBER programs: Labor Studies, Economic Well-Being of Children, Education, and Health Economics. His research has analyzed a range of social policy issues including college access, abortion and births, early childhood education, and gun violence. He co-edited the 2010 NBER volume on Targeting Investments in Children.
Valerie Ramey is a Distinguished Professor Economics at University of California, San Diego, and a research associate in the NBER programs on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics. She is a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee. Ramey is an expert on the sources of business cycles, trends in wage inequality, the effects of monetary and fiscal policy, and particularly the measurement of government spending multipliers during recessions and periods of low interest rates.
Ray Fair is the John M. Musser Professor of Economics and Professor of Management at Yale University, a professor at the Cowles Foundation, and an emeritus member of the NBER Board of Directors. His research ranges widely in applied macroeconomics, and his macro-econometric model, “The Fair Model,” is widely used in both policy analysis and in educational settings. His recent research has focused on the determinants of inflation expectations.
Ayşegül Şahin is the Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and a research associate in the NBER programs on Monetary Economics and Economic Fluctuations and Growth. She is a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and was a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s economics research team for over a decade before moving to Texas. Her research focuses on analysis of macro-labor issues such as maximum employment, unemployment and labor force participation dynamics, and labor market mismatch.
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