Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Behavioral Macroeconomics, 2022-2024 - Fellows

Michael Cai is developing a semi-structural approach to estimating macroeconomic models, which accommodates wide classes of non-rational expectations.

Matteo Saccarola is doing research on belief formation over inflation, exchange rates, and prices, using a combination of survey experiments and applied microeconomics.

Lingxuan "Sean" Wu studies people’s (mis-)understanding of economic relations and its implications for shock transmission and stabilization policy, employing a combination of theoretical, empirical and survey methods.

Michael Cai of Northwestern University is developing a semi-structural approach to estimating macroeconomic models, which accommodates wide classes of non-rational expectations.

Mateo Velásquez-Giraldo is studying how survey measures of macroeconomic beliefs can help explain life-cycle consumption and portfolio decisions.

Matteo Saccarola of the University of California, Berkeley, is doing research on belief formation over inflation, exchange rates, and prices, using a combination of survey experiments and applied microeconomics.

Luisa Cefala of the University of California, Berkeley is conducting research on the role of memory in the formation of beliefs and expectations.

John Conlon is investigating how expectation formation responds to information, particularly in the context of students’ choices about education.

Mateo Velásquez-Giraldo is studying how survey measures of macroeconomic beliefs can help explain life-cycle consumption and portfolio decisions.

Spencer Yongwook Kwon of Harvard University is investigatng the macroeconomic implications of learning and information processing by behavioral agents.