Laura Veldkamp

About

Department of Economics, New York University, Stern School of Business
Research: information choice in macroeconomics and finance
Residency: September 8, 2010, through June 1, 2011

Veldkamp is an associate professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She earned her PhD in economic analysis and policy from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Her research focuses on how individuals, investors, and firms get their information, how that information affects their decisions, and how those decisions affect the macroeconomy and financial markets. Her work spans macroeconomics, monetary economics, international finance, and asset pricing. Some recent work explores how women choose to join the labor force and how, when women learn by observing their neighbors, the resulting employment patterns resemble the geographic patterns of female labor force participation in the United States. Another recent project explores how mutual fund managers research their investments.

She has published articles in the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.