My research focuses on public finance and optimal contracts. Recent applications include personal bankruptcy regulation and Social Security.
Borys Grochulski is a senior 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
"Market-based Incentives" (with Yuzhe Zhang). Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Working Paper No. 13-05, May 2013.
"On the Optimality of Ramsey Taxes in Mirrlees Economies." Working Paper, September 2010.
"Optimal Risk Sharing and Borrowing Constraints in a Continuous-Time Model with Limited Commitment" (with Yuzhe Zhang). Journal of Economic Theory (forthcoming).
"Nonseparable Preferences and Optimal Social Security Systems" (with Narayana Kocherlakota). Journal of Economic Theory 145, no. 6 (November 2010): 2055-77.
"Risky Human Capital and Deferred Capital Income Taxation" (with Tomasz Piskorski). Journal of Economic Theory 145, no. 3 (May 2010): 908-43.
"Optimal Personal Bankruptcy Design Under Moral Hazard." Review of Economic Dynamics 13, no. 2 (April 2010): 350-78.
“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.
| Issue | Title | Author(s) |
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| Second Quarter 2011 | Financial Firm Resolution Policy as a Time-Consistency Problem |
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| First Quarter 2011 | Optimal Contracts for Housing Services Purchases |
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| Summer 2009 | Distortionary Taxation for Efficient Redistribution |
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| Spring 2008 | Limits to Redistribution and Intertemporal Wedges: Implications of Pareto Optimality with Private Information |
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| Winter 2007 | Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation with Costly Tax Avoidance |
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| Paper | Title | Author(s) |
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| 13-05 May 2013 |
Market-based Incentives |
Borys Grochulski
Yuzhe Zhang |
| 10-14 October 2010 |
On the Optimality of Ramsey Taxes in Mirrlees Economies |
Borys Grochulski
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| 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 |
| Essay | Title | Author(s) |
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| 09-07 July 2009 |
Systemic Risk Regulation and the "Too Big to Fail" Problem |
Borys Grochulski
Stephen Slivinski |
"Opinion: When Disclosure is Not Enough." Region Focus, Fall 2007, 52.
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