Ludwig Straub
German economist
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Ludwig Straub (born August 8, 1987) is a German economist who has been a professor of economics at Harvard University since 2024.[1][2] His research focuses on macroeconomics, particularly the role of household heterogeneity in macroeconomic dynamics.[3][4]
Trinity College, Cambridge (MASt, Part III)
LMU Munich (B.Sc.)
International economics
Ludwig Straub | |
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| Born | August 8, 1987 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) Trinity College, Cambridge (MASt, Part III) LMU Munich (B.Sc.) |
| Ivan Werning | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics International economics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Notable ideas | Heterogenous agent New Keynesian macroeconomics |
| Awards | John Bates Clark Medal (2026) Sloan Research Fellowship (2024) AQR Young Researcher Prize (2022) |
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Born in Germany, Straub received a B.Sc. in physics from LMU Munich, before completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, where his doctoral advisor was Ivan Werning.[1][2]
From 2018 to 2019, Straub was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where he became an assistant professor in 2019.[2] He became an associate professor at Harvard in 2023, and a full professor of economics in 2024.[2]
Straub has been a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2019, a research associate in macroeconomics and finance at the CEPR since 2022, and a member of CESifo since 2019.[2][3][5] In 2026, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, for his contributions to the incorporation of agent heterogeneity into macroeconomic modelling.[6][4]
Selected publications
- Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; Straub, Ludwig (2024). "The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross". Journal of Political Economy. 132 (12).
- Auclert, Adrien; Rigato, Rodolfo; Rognlie, Matthew; Straub, Ludwig (2024). "New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 139 (1).
- Guerrieri, Veronica; Lorenzoni, Guido; Straub, Ludwig; Werning, Iván (2022). "Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?". American Economic Review. 112 (5).
- Auclert, Adrien; Bardóczy, Bence; Rognlie, Matthew; Straub, Ludwig (2021). "Using the Sequence Space to Solve and Estimate Heterogeneous-Agent Models". Econometrica. 89 (5).
- Mian, Atif; Straub, Ludwig; Sufi, Amir (2021). "Indebted Demand". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 136 (4).
- Straub, Ludwig; Werning, Iván (2020). "Positive Long-Run Capital Taxation: Chamley-Judd Revisited". American Economic Review. 110 (1).