Economists

Borys Grochulski

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Research Interests

My research focuses on public finance and optimal contracts. Recent applications include personal bankruptcy regulation and Social Security.

 

Professional Experience

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.

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2005
M.Sc., Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), 1999
B.A., University of Warsaw (Poland), 1997

Curriculum vitae

"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.

"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.