His research has focused on whether, how and to what extent risk, a central concern in macroeconomics, is shared across households or groups of households. The main risks that affect typical households are labor income risks (e.g., due to becoming unemployed), health, disability and mortality risks.

He is the editor of the International Economic Review, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Penn’s Population Studies Center, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Research Fellow at Netspar, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Dirk Krüger is a German economist and currently Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a secondary appointment in the finance department at the Wharton School, and is außerplanmäßiger Professor at the Universität Bielefeld, Germany. His ...

Lifetime Income Taxes: A Good Idea? Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty: Free College or Better Schools? Annual Review of Economics, 2022, Vol 14, 453-494. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, July 2022, Vol 140, 1-18. Should Germany Have Built a New Wall? Macroeconomic Lessons from the 2015-18 Refugee Wave.

High marginal tax rates on the top 1 percent? Lessons from a life-cycle model with idiosyncratic income risk. How do tax progressivity and household heterogeneity affect Laffer curves?

Dirk Krueger is an internationally recognized macroeconomist who has made important contributions to the understanding of aggregate consumption dynamics, the impact of recessions on the income distribution, and heterogeneous agent macroeconomics more broadly.

Personal Name: Dirk Krueger . Information Address: Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and . Economics, 133 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 . Phone: (215) 573-1424 . Fax: (215) 573 2057 . Email, www: [email protected], https://web.sas.upenn.edu/dkrueger

Dirk Krueger is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a secondary appointment at Wharton’s Finance department and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association.

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2020年1月1日 · The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that, effective January 1, 2020, Dirk Krueger has assumed the role of Editor of the International Economic Review. He succeeds Harold L. Cole who has held the position since July 2011.