Sydney Ludvigson begins her Kumho Professorship

Sydney Ludvigson is the visiting Kumho Professor to the Department of Economics for the 2016 fall semester. She is a Professor of Economics at New York University (NYU) and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Ludvigson’s research centers on the interplay between asset markets and macroeconomic activity, with recent applications to the pricing and risk premia of stock, bond, and housing markets, the role of heterogeneity and wealth inequality in housing and stock market valuations, and the dynamic causal effects of uncertainty for business cycle fluctuations. She received a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and both her M.A. and PH.D. in Economics from Princeton. Ludvigson worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before becoming a professor at NYU in 2001.