Karen Dynan | Academic Influence

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Karen Dynan

Economics

#615

World Rank

#750

Historical Rank

#356

USA Rank

Monetary Economics

#37

World Rank

#37

Historical Rank

#16

USA Rank

Macroeconomics

#132

World Rank

#141

Historical Rank

#64

USA Rank

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Bachelors Economics Brown University

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According to Wikipedia, Karen Dynan is an American economist who is Professor of the Practice of Economics at Harvard University and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She previously served as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the United States Department of the Treasury, having been nominated to that position by President Barack Obama in August 2013 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2014. From 2009 to 2013, Dr. Dynan was the Vice President and Co-director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, she served on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board for 17 years. Dr. Dynan is an expert on macroeconomic policy, consumer behavior, household finance, and housing policy.

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Karen Dynan's Published Works

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Published Works

Do the Rich Save More? (2000) (859)
Habit Formation in Consumer Preferences: Evidence from Panel Data (2000) (481)
How Prudent are Consumers? (1993) (391)
Can Financial Innovation Help to Explain the Reduced Volatility of Economic Activity? (2005) (383)
Is a Household Debt Overhang Holding Back Consumption? (2012) (332)
The Evolution of Household Income Volatility (2007) (325)
Unemployment Risk and Precautionary Wealth: Evidence from Households' Balance Sheets (1999) (292)
The Importance of Bequests and Life-Cycle Saving in Capital Accumulation: A New Answer (2002) (234)
The Rise in U.S. Household Indebtedness: Causes and Consequences (2007) (185)
Does Stock Market Wealth Matter for Consumption? (2001) (173)
Increasing Income Inequality, External Habits, and Self-Reported Happiness (2007) (166)
The Underrepresentation of Women in Economics: A Study of Undergraduate Economics Students (1995) (159)
Do the rich save more (2000) (153)
Mortgage refinancing in 2001 and early 2002 (2002) (141)
Changing Household Financial Opportunities and Economic Security (2009) (87)
The incentives of mortgage servicers: myths and realities (2008) (78)
Recent changes to a measure of U.S. household debt service (2003) (74)
Wealth Effects and Macroeconomic Dynamics (2016) (72)
The Rise in US Household Indebtedness: Causes and Consequences (2007) (51)
Designing loan modifications to address the mortgage crisis and the making home affordable program (2009) (38)
Do Provisional Estimates of Output Miss Economic Turning Points? (2001) (38)
The relationship between leverage and household spending behavior: evidence from the 2007-2009 survey of consumer finances (2013) (32)
Financial innovation and the Great Moderation: what do household data say? (2006) (30)
The Effects of Population Aging on the Relationship among Aggregate Consumption, Saving, and Income (2009) (22)
Wealth Shocks and Macroeconomic Dynamics (2013) (16)
The Risk of Financial Hardship in Retirement: A Cohort Analysis (2019) (15)
PRELIMINARY PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE Can Financial Innovation Explain the Reduced Volatility of Economic Activity ? (2005) (14)
The Incentives of Mortgage Servicers and Designing Loan Modifications to Address the Mortgage Crisis (2011) (12)
The rate of time preference and shocks to wealth: evidence from panel data (1993) (11)
Changing Retirement Behavior in the Wake of the Financial Crisis (2011) (11)
Survey of finance companies, 2000 (2002) (7)
Helping homeowners during the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from the Great Recession (2020) (7)
What's Been Weighing on Consumption? An Overview of the Recent Experiences of Different Types of Households 1 (2012) (6)
Household Economic Security and Public Policy (2016) (4)
Measuring Household Wealth in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: The Role of Retirement Assets (2019) (2)
The Effects of Population Aging on the Relationship between Aggregate Consumption, Saving, and Income (2008) (2)
Why gender disparities persist in South Korea’s labor market (2022) (1)
The U.S. Household Debt Overhang (2012) (1)
The Risk of Financial Hardship in Retirement (2020) (1)
Adapting tax systems for population aging (2018) (0)
Rising student loan burdens and what to do about them (2020) (0)
Data for an Evolving Economic and Financial System (2010) (0)
Implications for Tax Policy of Lower Trend Productivity Growth (2017) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SLACK AND CYCLICALLY SENSITIVE INFLATION (2019) (0)
Household Economic Security and Public Policy (2016) (0)
Rising student loan burdens and what to do about them (2020) (0)
Household Wealth Effects and the US Macroeconomy (2015) (0)
Editors’ Summary (2011) (0)
How We're Doing: What's Blocking the Recovery (2009) (0)
Implications of Lower Trend Productivity Growth for Tax Policy (2018) (0)
Gender gaps in South Korea’s labour market: children explain most of the gender employment gap, but little of the gender wage gap (2023) (0)
PRELIMINARY DRAFT -- DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE National Fiscal Policies to Reduce Cyclical Volatility in U.S. States (2019) (0)
Adapting tax systems for population aging (2018) (0)
The Economic Context for Reforming the Safety Net (2019) (0)
No . 13-4 Wealth Shocks and Macroeconomic Dynamics (2013) (0)
Water-Quality Data from Two Agricultural Drainage Basins in Northwestern Indiana and Northeastern Illinois: I. Lagrangian and Synoptic Data, 1999-2002 (2013) (0)
Comments and Discussion (2011) (0)
National Fiscal Policies to Fight Recessions in US States (2020) (0)

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