John Leahy



Professor of Economics
Ph.D. 1990 (Economics), Princeton University; Master of Science in Foreign Service 1986, Georgetown University; B.A. 1984 (History, Mathematics and German), Williams College.


Department of Economics
New York University
19 W. 4th Street, 6FL
New York, NY 10012

Phone: 212.992.9770
Fax: 212.995.4186


Personal Homepage: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jl138/

Areas of Research/Interest: Macroeconomics, behavioral economics, economic theory.


Selected Publications:

“The Social Discount Rate” (with Andrew Caplin), Journal of Political Economy 112, December 2004, 1257-1268.
“The Supply of Information by a Concerned Expert” (with Andrew Caplin), Economic Journal 114, July 2004, 487-505.
“An Ss Model with Adverse Selection” (with Chris House), Journal of Political Economy 112, June 2004, 581-614.
“Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan” (with John Ameriks and Andrew Caplin), Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, August 2003, 1007-1047.
“Monetary Policy and Asset Prices” (with Simon Gilchrist), Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2002.
“Psychological Expected Utility Theory and Anticipatory Feelings” (with Andrew Caplin), Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, February 2001, 55-79.