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The Research Fellows of the Institute are drawn from both the Department of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences and from the Wharton School. The Fellows are all faculty members of the Graduate Group in Economics. They are among the most distinguished economists in the country as illustrated by their honors and awards including, most notably, the Nobel Prize in Economics awarded in 1980 to Professor Lawrence R. Klein.

Following is a list of the Fellows of the Institute.

Andrew B. Abel
Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor of Finance
and Economics, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 1978
Franklin Allen
Nippon Life Professor of Finance and
Economics,
D.Phil., Oxford University, 1980
Jere R. Behrman
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics
Director of Population Studies Center
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1966

Kenneth Burdett
Professor of Economics, and Director,

Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1976
Harold L. Cole
Professor of Economics

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1986
Flavio Cunha
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D, University of Chicago, 2007
Aureo DePaula
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Princeton University , 2006
Francis X. Diebold
Joseph M. Cohen Professor of Economics
Professor of Finance and Statistics
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1986
Jan Eeckhout
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., London School of Economic, 1998

Wilfred Ethier
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1970
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000
Jeremy Greenwood
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1983
Alan Heston
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Yale University, 1962

Robert Inman
Richard King Mellon Professor of Finance,
Professor of Finance, Economics, and Law
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972
Richard Kihlstrom
Ervin Miller-Arthur M. Freedman
Professor of Finance and Economics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1964

Philipp Kircher
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Bonn
, 2006


Lawrence Klein
Benjamin Franklin Emeritus Professor

of Economics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1944

Paul Kleindorfer
Professor of Decision Sciences and
Economics
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1970
John Knowles
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1998

Elena Krasnokutskaya
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Yale University, 2003


Dirk Krueger
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1999
Felix Kubler
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Yale University 1999

Karen Lewis
Joseph & Ida Sondheimer Professor
International Economics and Finance
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985

Jing Li
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2004
George J. Mailath
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in
Social Sciences and Chairman of the
Economics Department
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985

Iourii Manovskii
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2003

Roberto Mariano
Emeritus Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1970

Richard Marston
James R. F. Guy Professor of
Finance and Economics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1972
Steven A. Matthews
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., California Institute of
Technology, 1978

Guido Menzio
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph. D. Economics , Northwestern
University, 2005

Antonio M. Merlo
Lawrence R. Klein Professor of
Economics
Ph.D., New York University, 1992

Howard Pack
Professor of Public Policy and
Management and Economics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1964
Mark Pauly
Bendheim Professor of Health Care
Systems, Public Policy and
Management, Insurance and Risk
Management, and Economics
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1967


Andrew Postlewaite
Harry P. Kamen Professor of
Economics and Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Northwestern University 1974

José-Victor Ríos-Rull
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1990
Alvaro Sandroni
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 1996
Frank Schorfheide
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Yale, 1998


Kyungchul Song
Assistant Professor of Economics
PhD. Yale University, 2005
Robert F. Stambaugh
Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981
Petra Todd
Professor of Economics, and
Director, Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996

Michael Wachter
William B. Johnson Professor of Law
and Economics
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970

Sidney G. Winter
Deloitte and Touche Professor of
Management
Ph.D., Yale, 1964
Kenneth I. Wolpin
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg
Professor in the Social Sciences
and Professor of Economics
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1974
Randall Wright
James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of
Economics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1986