Dirk Krueger

Dirk Krueger is currently Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review from 2009-2011 and is Co-Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. His research interests are in macroeconomics and public finance, with emphasis on models with heterogeneous households. Dirk has published in several journals, including the American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies and Review of Economics and Statistics. Dirk received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1999. He has worked as Assistant Professor at Stanford University and held a Chaired Professorship in Macroeconomics at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He is currently affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research as Research Associate, with the Centre for Economic Policy Research as Research Fellow, with Netspar as Research Fellow and with the Center for Financial Studies of Goethe University Frankfurt as Research Fellow.