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29 October 2024 Anderton Economic Policy Symposium: Kartik B. Athreya
New York Fed research director Kartik B. Athreya joins the HWS community for a conversation about the nation’s economic outlook.
The Anderton Economic Policy Symposium will welcome Dr. Kartik B. Athreya, EVP and Director of Research and Head of the Research and Statistics Group for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for a conversation about the state of the U.S. economy and the factors shaping its future.
Dr. Artheya’s conversation will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in the Vandervort Room in the Scandling Campus Center. One of two series established in 2022 by former Trustee James F. Anderton IV ’65, the Anderton Economic Policy Symposium brings a new range of expertise and insight to campus and the broader HWS community.
The author of Big Ideas in Macroeconomics (2013, MIT Press), Dr. Athreya is an accomplished macroeconomist whose research focuses on macroeconomics and consumer finance, especially on household financial distress and debt repayment, the link between household human capital investments and the stock market, and assessing the risks associated with college enrollment and educational attainment and inequality. Dr. Athrey’s work has been published in leading economic journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and International Economic Review, and he previously served as an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Dr. Athreya has taught doctoral courses in macroeconomics at the University of Virginia He earned his doctorate from the University of Iowa in 2000.
Alongside the Anderton Forum for Global Engagement, the economic symposium offers students, faculty and the entire campus community an opportunity to engage with international experts on timely subjects. Each series is administered by Provost and Dean of Faculty Sarah Kirk with committees comprised of faculty members with relevant expertise and student representatives.
Anderton, who served on the Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2000, is the founder and executive chairman of property management and real estate investment and development company Krimson. He holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University, as well as his B.A. in economics from Hobart. A longtime supporter of HWS, Anderton was awarded the Hobart Medal of Excellence, the Hobart Alumni Association’s highest honor, in 1997. In 2015, he received the Lifetime Service Award, presented to alumni who have made exceptional contributions to Hobart College throughout their lives.
