Thank you for visiting my academic website. I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in economics at New York University.
My fields of research interest are macroeconomics, finance (household finance, asset pricing), and expectations and information frictions.
Contact: mh.andrew.lee@gmail.com or ml7704@nyu.edu
Working Papers
Statistical Discrimination in Frictional Labor Markets: Theory and Application to Immigration Enforcement (with Jaeyeon Shin and Giovanni M. Topa) [Working Paper] revise and resubmit at AEJ: Macroeconomics
How Costly Are Business Cycle Volatility and Inflation? A Vox Populi Approach (with Dimitris Georgarakos, Kwang Hwan Kim, Olivier Coibion, Myungkyu Shim, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Geoff Kenny, Seowoo Han, and Michael Weber) [Working Paper]
The Effects of Fiscal News on Household Expectations and Spending: New Causal Evidence (with Myungkyu Shim, Kwang Hwan Kim, Sangyup Choi, Siye Bae, Olivier Coibion, and Yuriy Gorodnichenko) [Working Paper]
Does Household Spending Respond to Politically Motivated Beliefs? Evidence from Linked Survey-Transaction Data (with Seoyoon Jeong, Kwang Hwan Kim, Jaehyeok Lee, Jongkwan Lee, and Myungkyu Shim) [Working Paper]
Work in Progress
The Information Effect of Stock Prices: Micro Evidence and Asset-Pricing Implications (Job Market Paper)
How Do Different Forms of Communication Matter for Partisan Households? (with Siye Bae, Sangyup Choi, Sang-Hyun Kim, and Myungkyu Shim)
Thinking Thrifty: How Values Shape Household Saving (with Kwang Hwan Kim, Seunghwan Lee, and Myungkyu Shim)
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, New York University (New York, NY), 2027 (expected)
M.A. in Economics, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), 2021
B.A. in Economics (minor in Philosophy), Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), 2019