Faculty Profiles

Wifag Adnan, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wa22@nyu.edu
Education: BS Duke University (magna cum laude with distinction); PhD Princeton University

Research Interests: Labor markets; Job search; Employment; Wage differentials; Female labor force; Education

Robert Allen, Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bob.allen@nyu.edu
Education: BA Carleton College, MA and PhD Harvard Univesity

Research Interests: Economic History, Technological Change, Public Policy

Mounther Barakat, Professor of Practice of Finance Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: Mounther.Barakat@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Oklahoma State University

Research Interests: Financial Markets; Securities; Corporate Finance, Derivatives; Event Studies; Agency Theory; Investm...

Andrzej Baranski, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: a.baranski@nyu.edu
Education: BA Universidad de Costa Rica; MA and PhD The Ohio State University

Research Interests: Game Theory, Experimental Economics

David Blakeslee, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dsb12@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Columbia University

Research Interests: Political economy of development

Olivier Bochet, Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs; Program Head and Associate Professor of Economics; co-Principal Investigator of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ob16@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Brown University

Research Interests: Incentives; Efficiency; Equity

Barthélémy Bonadio, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bbonadio@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Michigan

Research Interests: International Economics

Alessandro Citanna, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ac6609@nyu.edu
Education: BA Bocconi University; MA Bocconi University; PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Economic theory; Quantitative methods; Financial economics; Macroeconomics

Pauline Zélia Eugénie Corblet, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pauline.corblet@nyu.edu
Education: BA Sorbonne Université - Sciences Po; MA Sorbonne Université - Sciences Po; PhD Sciences Po

Research Interests: Labor economics; education; matching theory

Aurelie Dariel, Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: apd5@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Research Interests: Behavioral economics, experimental economics, labor economics, gender

Giovanni Federico, Professor of Economic History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: giovanni.federico@nyu.edu
Education: Laurea University of Pisa; PhD Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa)

Research Interests: Trade and Globalization; Agriculture; Long-term Population Growth

Torsten Figueiredo Walter, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: t.f.walter@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Bonn University; MRes London School of Economics; PhD London School of Economics

Research Interests: Development Economics

Sanjeev Goyal, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sg6280@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Delhi; MBA IIM Ahmedabad; MA, PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Economic theory. Networks. Conflict. Identity.

Christian Haefke, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ch109@nyu.edu
Education: Mag.rer.soc.oec, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; Diploma, Institute for ...

Research Interests: Labor markets; Applied econometrics

John Ham, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jch18@nyu.edu
Education: BA from the University of Toronto; PhD Princeton University

Research Interests: Applied microeconomics; Labor; Health; Experimental economics

Morgan Hardy, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: morgan.hardy@nyu.edu
Education: BA Columbia University; PhD Brown University

Research Interests: Development economics; Firms; Labor markets; Social networks

Jean M Imbs, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jmi5@nyu.edu
Education: PhD New York University

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade

Aikaterini Kyriazidou, Program Head of MSc in Economics; Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ak7482@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Athens; MA Northwestern University; PhD Northwestern University

Research Interests: Econometrics; Applied economics

Samreen Malik, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: samreen.malik@nyu.edu
Education: MA Cornell University; PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Applied micro, Development, Macroeconomics

Maximilian Mihm, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mm5826@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Economics of information and uncertainty

Veda Binod Narasimhan, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: veda.narasimhan@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Zurich; MSc London School of Economics; BA McGill University

Research Interests: Rural development; political economy and institutions; migration and urbanisation

Nikos Nikiforakis, Professor of Economics; Co-director of the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID); Co-director of the Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nikos.nikiforakis@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics

Jordan Norris, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jjnorris@nyu.edu
Education: BA/MSci University of Cambridge; MA/PhD Northwestern University

Research Interests: Spatial Economics; International Trade; Macroeconomics; Networks

Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: yn1@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Ghana; MA and PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Human capital; Economic growth

Kevin O'Rourke, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kevin.orourke@nyu.edu
Education: BA Trinity College Dublin; PhD Harvard University

Research Interests: History of the international economy

Michael Reiter, Visiting Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mr4559@nyu.edu
Education: PhD from the University of Munich

Research Interests: computational macroeconomics, with a focus on computational methods for heterogeneous agent models (

Ernesto Reuben, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Societal Impact; Professor of Economics and Business, Organizations and Society; Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ereuben@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Maryland; MPhil Tinbergen Institute; PhD University of Amsterdam

Research Interests: Determinants of labor-market outcomes; Social norms; Gender; Stereotypes; Behavioral Public Policy

Pauline Rutsaert, Associate Professor of Practice of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pauline.rutsaert@nyu.edu
Education: MA Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); PhD Cornell University (USA)

Research Interests: Industrial Organisation; Competition and Regulation; Industrial and Strategic Trade Policy; Innovati...

Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rs8561@nyu.edu
Education: BA Valencia; MSc University College London; PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Inequality, Intellectual Property Products and the Macroeconomy; Social Insurance, Resource Misalloc...

Anisa Shyti, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: Visiting
Email: as9193@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Management Sciences, HEC Paris, France; MSc (cum Laude) in Business Administration, Bocconi U...

Research Interests: Business decision-making; Financial data

Tetyana Surovtseva, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: Visiting
Email: ts4596@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Research Interests: Labor economics, economics of immigration, gender economics

Peter Hubert Thurlow, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Economics Affiliation: Visiting
Email: pht6348@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Toronto; MA University of British Columbia; PhD University of Toronto

Research Interests: Monetary Policy; Fiscal Policy

Etienne Wasmer, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ew1555@nyu.edu
Education: Ecole Polytechnique (BSc), Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (DELTA) (MA)...

Research Interests: Labor Economics; Macroeconomics; Search Theory; Urban Economics

John Wooders, Professor of Economics; Co-director of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID); Director of Social Science Experimental Lab (SSEL) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jw4725@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of Toronto; PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Experimental Economics