Kartik Athreya is executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Athreya's work has been published in a variety of academic journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and International Economic Review.
Athreya's research interests are in macroeconomics and consumer finance. His current research aims to measure and understand household financial distress and debt repayment decisions, to quantify the links between household investments in human capital and in the stock market, and to assess the importance of risks associated with college enrollment for educational attainment and inequality.
Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Non-Technical View, MIT Press, 2013.
"Record-Keeping in Consumer Credit Markets" (joint with Meta Brown, Eric R. Young, and Xuan S. Tam).
"Investment Opportunities and Economic Mobility: Who Benefits from College and the Stock Market?" (joint with Felicia F. Ionescu, Urvi Neelakantan, and Ivan Vidangos).
“Challenges for Policymakers in a Low Interest Rate Environment.” Speech to the Asian Banker Future of Finance Summit, Beijing, China, May 25, 2018.
"Economic Outlook, January 2018." Speech to the Maryland Bankers Association First Friday Economic Outlook Forum, Baltimore, Md., January 5, 2018.
"Why is There (still) No Private-Equity Premium?" (joint with Ahmet Akyol, Pierre Sarte, and Eric R. Young).
"Income Floors and Interest-Rate Ceilings."
"The Skill Premium and Household Indebtedness: A Tale of Five Series" (joint with Felicia F. Ionescu and B. Ravikumar).