Danial Lashkari
Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of NY
PhD in Political Economy & Government, Harvard, 2017
PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT, 2011
Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of NY
PhD in Political Economy & Government, Harvard, 2017
PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT, 2011
I am a Research Economist at the Research and Statistics department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. My research studies different long-run drivers of economic change, including the innovation activity of firms, technological breakthroughs, transformations in the consumption patterns of households, and globalization. I joined the New York Fed in 2023, and currently also serve as a research affiliate at the MIT FutureTech Lab.
In the 2024-2025 academic year, I was the Peter B. Kenen Fellow in the International Economics Section at Princeton University. From 2018 to 2023, I was an assistant professor of economics and international studies at Boston College, holding the White Family assistant professorship chair between 2020 and 2023. I was a Shoven/SIEPR Young Scholar at Stanford University (2021-2022), and a Cowles Foundation postdoctoral associate at the Yale University (2017-2018).
I completed a PhD degree at the Harvard economics department in 2017. Prior to that, I obtained a PhD degree at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where I worked on a number of applications of machine learning techniques in neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience. I received MSc and BSc degrees from the University of Tehran, Iran.
This webpage includes my recent economics research papers. To find out more about my current work and past research in machine learning and neuroscience, you can see my Google Scholar profile here: Google Scholar Profile.
The views expressed in this website are mine and do not reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY or the federal reserve system.
July, 2025:
Our paper "Creative Destruction through Innovation Bursts" is invited for a revision at the Econometrica.
June, 2025
Our paper "Aggregation and the Estimation of Quality Change" is now accepted at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
May, 2025:
A draft of our paper "Structural Transformation of Innovation" is now available.
April, 2025:
A new draft of our paper "Creative Destruction through Innovation Bursts" is now available.
December, 2024:
Our paper "Captial-Skill Complementarity in Firms and in the Aggregate Economy" is now invited for a revision at the Journal of Political Economy.