Anthony Smith

Anthony Smith is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Economics and chair of the Department of Economics. He has also taught at Queen’s University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Rochester and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as an associate editor at the Review of Economics Dynamics and is currently co-editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. He conducts research in macroeconomics, with a focus on income and wealth heterogeneity, and in econometrics, with a focus on simulation estimation of structural models. His most recent research takes place at the intersection of macroeconomics and environmental economics, where he is constructing global economy-climate models with high geographic resolution. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University and a B.S. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.