Andrew Abel

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Andrew B. Abel
Born (1952-12-03) December 3, 1952 (age 69)
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Occupation Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
Doctoral advisor Rudi Dornbusch [1]
Doctoral students Andrew Lo
Website finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~abel/

Andrew Bruce Abel (born December 3, 1952) is an American economist, a professor in the Department of Finance in The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. [2] [3] [4]

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Biography

Abel was born on December 3, 1952. [5] He has been named the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor since July 1, 2003 [6] and the Professor of the Department of Finance in The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1978 and BA, at Princeton University in 1974. [3] [7]

Career

Abel is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the advisory committee at the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series, the Panel of Economic Advisors and the Long-Term Modeling Group of the Congressional Budget Office, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He was a former faculty for economics at the University of Chicago and Harvard University. He also has been a visiting faculty member for economics departments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. [3] [6] [8] He has written an intermediate-level macroeconomics textbook coauthored with Ben Bernanke (and also Dean Croushore in later editions).

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References

  1. Abel, Andrew B. (1978). Investment and the value of capital (Ph.D.). MIT . Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  2. "Andrew Abel's Upenn website" . Retrieved February 1, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Andrew B. Abel (February 15, 2010). "Financing the Federal Government: History and Prospects". Swarthmore College. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
  4. "Andrew Abel on google scholar" . Retrieved February 1, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Andrew B. Abel's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved February 1, 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Ronald Rosenfeld Professor:Dr. Abel" . Retrieved February 1, 2015.
  7. "Wharton Upenn Profile" . Retrieved February 1, 2015.
  8. "Tel-Aviv" . Retrieved February 1, 2015.