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Andrew G. Atkeson

Andrew G. Atkeson

· Stanley M. Zimmerman Professor of Economics and Finance

University of California, Los Angeles · Accounting

Active 1987–2026

h-index52
Citations14.0k
Papers34551 last 5y
Funding$463k

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About

Andrew G. Atkeson is the Stanley M. Zimmerman Professor of Economics and Finance at UCLA Anderson. His research spans a variety of topics in macroeconomics, including the sustainability of international debt, the design of monetary policy, and the measurement of firm solvency. He has published in prominent academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Throughout his career, he has been awarded nine NSF grants and has served as an Associate Editor for several leading economic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Security
  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Statistics
  • Medicine
  • Econometrics
  • Finance
  • Business
  • Mathematics

Selected publications

  • On Using SIR Models to Model Disease Scenarios for COVID-19

    Quarterly Review · 2020 · 44 citations

    1st authorCorresponding

    From introduction: This paper is intended to introduce economists to a simple SIR model of the progression of COVID-19 to aid understanding of how such a model might be incorporated into more standard macroeconomic models. An SIR model is a Markov model of the spread of an epidemic in which the total population is divided into categories of being susceptible to the disease (S); actively infected with the disease (I); and resistant (R), meaning those that have recovered, died from the disease, or…

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  • The End of Privilege: A Reexamination of the Net Foreign Asset Position of the United States

    National Bureau of Economic Research · 2022-02-01 · 36 citations

    report1st authorCorresponding
    PublisherDOI

  • The End of Privilege: A Reexamination of the Net Foreign Asset Position of the United States

    2022 · 36 citations

    1st authorCorresponding

    The US net foreign asset position has deteriorated sharply since 2007 and is currently negative 65 percent of US GDP. This deterioration primarily reflects changes in the relative values of large gross international equity positions, as opposed to net new borrowing. In particular, a sharp increase in equity prices that has been US-specific has inflated the value of US foreign liabilities. We develop an international macro finance model to interpret these trends, and we argue that the rise in equ…

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  • Behavior and the Transmission of COVID-19

    AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2021-05-01 · 28 citations

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    A simple model of COVID-19 that incorporates feedback from disease prevalence to disease transmission through an endogenous response of human behavior does a remarkable job fitting the main features of the data on the growth rates of daily deaths observed across a large number of countries and states in the United States in 2020. This finding, however, suggests a new empirical puzzle: very large wedges that shift disease transmission rates holding disease prevalence fixed are required both acros…

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  • Behavior and the Transmission of COVID-19

    2021-02-04 · 13 citations

    preprintOpen access1st author

    We show that a simple model of COVID-19 that incorporates feedback from disease prevalence to disease transmission through an endogenous response of human behavior does a remarkable job fitting the main features of the data on the growth rates of daily deaths observed across a large number countries and states of the United States from March to November of 2020. This finding, however, suggests a new empirical puzzle. Using an accounting procedure akin to that used for Business Cycle Accounting a…

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