Regular biography
Cosmin L. Ilut is a Professor of Economics at Duke University, affiliated with the Economics department. His research interests include macroeconomics, international finance, asset pricing, and the economics of information, with a focus on the role of expectations and how agents incorporate information. He currently examines settings where agents face model uncertainty, using decision theoretical foundations to study its implications for macroeconomic issues such as business cycle fluctuations and optimal policy. His work has been published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and he has received grants from the National Science Foundation.
Scholar-generated biography
Cosmin Ilut is a Professor of Economics at Duke University, specializing in Macroeconomics, International Finance, and the Economics of Uncertainty. His research explores how uncertainty influences economic behavior, financial markets, and macroeconomic dynamics. Ilut's work investigates topics such as ambiguity aversion, monetary policy effects on stock market cycles, and the role of learning and expectations in business cycles. His publications often focus on the interplay between uncertainty, asset pricing, and macroeconomic fluctuations, with an emphasis on how economic agents respond to incomplete information and asymmetric shocks. His research contributes to understanding the complexities of financial markets and macroeconomic policy under conditions of uncertainty.