Research Economists

Kartik Athreya

My Research interests are in macroeconomics and financial economics. My current interests are in the consequences of credit market regulations and interventions such as bankruptcy laws, loan guarantees and subsidies, and interest-rate ceilings. 

Publications

Academic Journals

"Welfare Implications of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999", Journal of Monetary Economics, 49 (2002) 1567-1595 

"Risky Higher Education and Subsidies", joint with A. Akyol, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Forthcoming 

"Fresh Start or Head Start? Uniform Bankruptcy Exemptions and Welfare", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Forthcoming 

"Unsecured Debt with Public Insurance: From Bad to Worse", joint with N. Simpson, Journal of Monetary Economics, Forthcoming

Other

"The Growth of Unsecured Credit: Are We Better Off?" Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Summer 2001: Vol. 87, No. 3

"Personal Bankruptcy and Unemployment Insurance," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Spring 2003: Vol. 89, No. 2

"Shame As It Ever Was: Stigma and Personal Bankruptcy," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Spring 2004: Vol. 90, No. 2 

Work-In-Progress

"Exemptions: Limited Enforcement Encouraging Entrepreneurship?", joint with A. Akyol.



"Endogenous Default, Usury Laws, and Credit Rationing" 

Biographical Sketch

Education

Ph.D University of Iowa, 2000
B.S. Iowa State University, 1993