Igor Livshits

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests

Macroeconomic Theory; Economic Growth and Development; Political Economy; Consumer Bankruptcy; Sovereign Debt

Teaching Fields

Macroeconomics; Micro Theory

Publications

"Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies," with James MacGee and Michèle Tertilt, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, forthcoming.

"Uncertainty and the Specificity of Human Capital," Journal of Economic Theory, 2008, 143, 469-498 (with Martin Gervais and Césaire Meh).

"Consumer Bankruptcy: A Fresh Start," American Economic Review, 2007, 97/1, 402-418 (with James MacGee and Michèle Tertilt).

"Vested Interests and Technology Adoption," Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54, 649-666 (with Benjamin Bridgman and James MacGee).

"On Non-Existence of Pure Strategy Markov Perfect Equilibrium," Economics Letters, 2002, 76/3, 393-396.

Working Papers

"Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit," September 2011 (with James MacGee and Michèle Tertilt).

"Greed as a Source of Polarization," November 2009 (with Mark Wright).

"Sovereign Default and Banking," October, 2009 (with Koen Schoors).

"Barriers to Technology Adoption and Entry," July 2006 (with James MacGee).

"Consumer Bankruptcy: A Fresh Start," Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Working Paper 617, 2003 (with James MacGee and Michèle Tertilt).

"For Sale: Barriers to Riches," EPRI Working paper 2004-3 (with Benjamin Bridgman and James MacGee).

"Variance Aversion in the Small and the Large," April 2003.

 

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Courses

  • 4400E - Senior Seminar in Economic Policy
    Section - 001
  • 9604B - Macroeconomics II
    Section - 001