External links
- Ludwig Straub at Harvard University
- Google Scholar profile
- Ludwig Straub at the NBER
- Clark Medal citation
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Ludwig Straub | |
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| Born | August 8, 1987 |
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| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) Trinity College, Cambridge (MASt, Part III) LMU Munich (B.Sc.) |
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| Discipline | Macroeconomics International economics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Notable ideas | Heterogenous agent New Keynesian macroeconomics |
| Awards | John Bates Clark Medal (2026) Sloan Research Fellowship (2024) AQR Young Researcher Prize (2022) |
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Ludwig Straub (born August 8, 1987) is a German economist who has been a professor of economics at Harvard University since 2024. His research focuses on macroeconomics, particularly the role of household heterogeneity in macroeconomic dynamics.
Born in Germany, Straub received a B.Sc. in physics from LMU Munich, before completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge. He received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, where his doctoral advisor was Ivan Werning.
From 2018 to 2019, Straub was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where he became an assistant professor in 2019. He became an associate professor at Harvard in 2023, and a full professor of economics in 2024.
Straub has been a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2019, a research associate in macroeconomics and finance at the CEPR since 2022, and a member of CESifo since 2019. In 2026, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, for his contributions to the incorporation of agent heterogeneity into macroeconomic modelling.
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