Arpad Abraham

Professor of Macroeconomics

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Email: arpad.abraham@eui.eu

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 909/928
Fax [+39] 055 4685 902

Secretary: lucia.vigna@eui.eu 

Postal address:
Department of Economics
Villa San Paolo
Via della Piazzuola 43
50133 Florence - Italy

Short Biographical Sketch

Joined the Institute in September 2009 from the University of Rochester where he was Assistant Professor. He has been Assistant Professor at Duke University in 2002-2004, and a Research Officer at London Business School in 2000-2002. 

Prof. Abraham has published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Theoretical Economics and Acta Oeconomica among others.

Fields of Research

• Macroeconomics

• Dynamic Contracts

• Incomplete Markets

• Computational Methods.

Languages

• Hungarian
• English

Current Publications

• Endogenous Trading Constraints in Incomplete Asset Markets, Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145: 974-1004 (joint with Eva Carceles-Poveda).
• Efficient Allocations with Moral Hazard and Hidden Borrrowing and Lending: A recursive Formulation, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2008, 11: 781-803, (joint with Nicola Pavoni).
• Comment on Altruism, Incomplete Markets, and Tax Reform by Fuster, Imrohoroglu and Imrohoroglu, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55(1): 91:97.
• Earnings Inequality and Skill-biased Technological change with Endogenous Choice of Education, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(2-3):695-704.