My research focuses on public finance and optimal contracts. Recent applications include personal bankruptcy regulation and Social Security.
Borys Grochulski is an economist in the Research Department. He joined the Richmond Fed in 2005 after earning his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where he served as an adjunct instructor.
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2005
M.Sc., Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), 1999
B.A., University of Warsaw (Poland), 1997
"Borrowing Constraint as an Optimal Contract" (with Yuzhe Zhang). Working Paper, University of Iowa, October 2009.
"Nonseparable Preferences and Optimal Social Security Systems" (with Narayana Kocherlakota). Journal of Economic Theory (forthcoming).
"Risky Human Capital and Deferred Capital Income Taxation" (with Tomasz Piskorski). Journal of Economic Theory (forthcoming).
"Optimal Personal Bankruptcy Design Under Moral Hazard." Review of Economic Dynamics (forthcoming).
“Comment On: ‘Optimal Human Capital Policies’ by Bohacek and Kapicka.” Journal of Monetary Economics 55, no. 1 (January 2008): 17-20.
"Allen and Gale on Risk-Taking and Competition in Banking" (with John Kareken). Finance Research Letters 1, no. 4 (December 2004): 236-240.
| Paper | Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 08-5 September 2008 |
Optimal Personal Bankruptcy Design: A Mirrlees Approach |
Borys Grochulski
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| 06-13 December 2006 |
Risky Human Capital and Deferred Capital Income Taxation |
Borys Grochulski
Tomasz Piskorski |
| 05-13 December 2005 |
Optimal Wealth Taxes with Risky Human Capital |
Borys Grochulski
Tomasz Piskorski |
"Systemic Risk Regulation and the 'Too Big to Fail' Problem" (with Stephen Slivinski). Richmond Fed Economic Brief 09-07, July 2009.
"Opinion: When Disclosure is Not Enough." Region Focus, Fall 2007, 52.