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James Feigenbaum

James Feigenbaum

Associate Professor
Department(s): Economics and Finance
Location:  Business 620
Office Phone:  435.797.2316
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Spring 2013 Course Schedule

APEC 4010 – Intermediate Microeconomics
Days: TR - Class Time: 12:00pm-1:15pm
Room: BUS 318

APEC 7240 – MACROECONOMIC THEORY II
Days: MW - Class Time: 5:00pm-6:15pm
Room: BUS 214

ECN 4020 – Intermediate Macroeconomics
Days: MWF - Class Time: 2:00pm-2:50pm
Room: ENGR 302

ECN 5020 – Macroeconomic Theory
Days: MWF - Class Time: 4:30pm-5:20pm
Room: AGRS 137

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Iowa, 2003
Ph.D., Physics, University of Chicago, 1998

Biography

Professor Feigenbaum has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. He has worked as an intern and consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh and now at Utah State University.

His research primarily focuses on life-cycle consumption and saving, general equilibrium calibration and simulation, computational methods, and quantitative finance. He has played a key role in a literature that builds life-cycle models that are capable of reproducing the most important features of the life-cycle consumption/saving experience in the U.S. In particular, he has advanced our understanding of the importance of mortality risk, idiosyncratic earnings risk, borrowing constraints, and the labor-leisure choice in explaining life-cycle consumption data. He has also studied the application of physics models in financial contexts.

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Research Area(s)

Lifecycle Consumption and Saving, Macroeconomics, Finance, Econophysics.