Amy Finkelstein

Amy Nadya Finkelstein ( born November 2, 1973 in New York) is an American economist and university lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ), where she holds the Ford Professor of Economics ( VWL). In 2012 she received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal for her contribution to the economics.

In 2008, she appointed the Economist to one of eight top young economists and drew particular Finkelstein's work in the field of information economics and health economics out where it contributed significantly to the development of novel methods for the study and solution of problems of asymmetric information distribution.

Childhood and education

From 1991 to 1995 Finkelstein studied at Harvard University, Political Science, where she was elected in 1994 a member of the honor society Phi Beta Kappa. In 1995 she gave then a Harvard University AB with the top grade summa cum laude. Then she moved to Oxford University, where in 1997 they released their M.Phil. received in Economics. After completing her graduate studies she continued her studies in 1998 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she holds a doctorate in economics in 2001.

Professional career

Between their main studies and their doctoral Finkelstein worked from 1997 to 1998 as a staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, DC. Upon receiving her Ph.D. from MIT worked first as a Visiting Scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ), where she was also from 2001 to 2007 as a Faculty Research Fellow and later as a Research Associate working in the area Demography of Ageing (2001-2002 ) and then as a junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows (2002-2005). Then she took a job as Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT, where she was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 2008 to 2007 before she got in 2012 transferred the Ford Professorship. Incidentally, she was also a visiting professor of economics at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Parallel Finkelstein was from 2007 to 2011 a member of the committee for health advice to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO ). Other offices Amy Finkelstein include a Fellowship at the TIAA -CREF Institute, participation in HRS Monitoring Committee of the National Institute of Ageing, the Nominating Committee of the American Economic Association and a member of the composite National Institutes of Health, Social Sciences and Population Studies. Since 2008, Finkelstein is also Co - Director of the Public Economics Program of the NBER.

In addition, Finkelstein has worked since 2004 as an editor of the Journal of Public Economics.

Prizes and awards

Among the most important prizes and awards, Amy Finkelstein has won throughout her career, including the John Bates Clark Medal ( 2012), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2009), the Elaine Bennett Research Prize (2008 ), a Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2007-2009) and Ernst Meyer Prize of the Geneva Association ( 2003). Other awards include the Graduate Teacher of the Year Award from the Graduate Economics Association of MIT (2012), the Arrow Lecture in Economics ( 2012), the Pashigian Memorial Lecture (2011 ), the status of a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2012 ), the TIAA -CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award ( 2008) and the Distinguished CESifo research Affiliate Award ( 2006). Also Finkelstein member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012), the Institute of Medicine (2009) and the National Academy of Social Insurance ( 2007).

Research

Amy Finkelstein's research focuses on public finance and health economics, with a particular focus on market failures in insurance markets and the effects of economic policies on these markets.

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