Inclusive Growth and Prosperity Initiative Faculty
Laurence Ales
Associate Professor of Economics, Director of Undergraduate Research
Research Interests
Laurence Ales’ interests include income tax policy, the effects of technological change on labor demand and wages, and inequality in healthcare consumption. Laurence also heads the Global Challenges Competition, which presents undergraduate students with a pressing social problem and challenges them to combine data and economic reasoning to arrive at a policy recommendation.
Finn Kydland
University Professor of Economics and Richard P. Simmons Distinguished Professor, Emeritus; Nobel Laureate (2004)
Research Interests
Finn Kydland received the Nobel prize in 2004 in recognition of his seminal work on business cycles and policy inconsistency. This work has had a profound impact on modern economics. In recent years, Finn has studied the interacted effects of inflation and tax policy on economic growth.
Ali Shourideh
Assistant Professor of Economics
Research Interests
Ali Shourideh studies the design and performance of government tax and spending programs. Recent areas of work include public pension reform, taxation of capital income, and the relationship between trade and tax policies.
Ariel Zetlin-Jones
Associate Professor of Economics
Research Interests
Ariel Zetlin-Jones is interested in the effects of informational frictions on the structure and performance of financial markets, and their importance for the broader economy. Ariel also studies blockchain technology and its application to macroeconomics.