Regular biography
Ludwig Straub is a professor of economics at Harvard University. His research areas are macroeconomics and international economics. His topics of interest include the recent decline in the natural rate of interest, rising levels of private and public debt, and the transmission of monetary and fiscal policy. He also has an active research agenda solving and analyzing heterogeneous-agent models. Among his most recent papers is a 2025 paper studying the short-run effects of tariff shocks. Ludwig received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 2018 and holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in mathematics and physics.
Scholar-generated biography
Ludwig Straub is a professor at Harvard University specializing in macroeconomics, with a focus on inequality, heterogeneous agents, monetary policy, and fiscal policy. His research explores the macroeconomic implications of structural shifts, such as inequality, demographic changes, and energy shocks, and their interactions with monetary and fiscal policies. Straub's work includes analyzing heterogeneous-agent models to understand business cycles, credit crunches, and the role of fiscal stimulus in open economies. His research also examines the effects of monetary policy on consumption, savings, and the distribution of permanent income, as well as the interplay between exchange rates and macroeconomic stability.