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Ulrich Doraszelski

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Northwestern
Primary Fields of Interest: Industrial organization, computational economics.
Research Topics: Theory and computation of dynamic models of industry equilibrium and their applications.

Emmanuel Farhi

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics.
Research Topics: Macroeconomic policy.

Martin Feldstein

George F. Baker Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Oxford
Primary Fields of Interest: Public economics, taxation, social insurance, macroeconomics.
Research Topics: Social Security reform, effects of inflation, effects of taxation.

Erica Field

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Princeton
Primary Fields of Interest: Development economics, labor economics.
Research Topics: Economic demography, microeconomic analysis of development, property rights, health and development.

Richard Freeman

Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Labor economics and institutions, inequality, crime, philanthropy, European labor markets, computer simulation modeling, trade unionism.
Research Topics: Growth and decline of unions, effects of immigration and trade on inequality, restructuring European welfare states, Chinese labor markets, poverty and crime, self-organizing non-union in the labor market, employee involvement programs.

Benjamin Friedman

William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy.
Research Topics: The role that financial markets play in determining the effects of monetary and fiscal policies on the non-financial economy, conceptual frameworks for planning and implementing monetary policy, social and moral consequences of economic growth.

Roland Fryer

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Primary Fields of Interest: Applied theory, applied microeconomics, labor economics.
Research Topics: Affirmation action, discrimination, social economics.

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Yale
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, international economics, behavioral economics.
Research Topics: Household consumption and savings behavior, heterogeneous preferences and self-selection.

Drew Fudenberg

Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Game theory, microeconomic theory.
Research Topics: Learning IN games, reputation AND repeated play, theoretical industrial organization.