Nick Pretnar

Nick graduated from Tepper with a PhD in Economics in May of 2020. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In Fall of 2023 he will be an adjunct professor at Tepper teaching macroeconomics in the MSCF program, as well as Principles of Macroeconomics for undergraduates. His research can be broadly summarized as focusing on household finance and time use, specifically how behavioral phenomena and time-allocation decisions determine agent-level consumption and savings decisions, as well as macroeconomic outcomes. He is interested in how such phenomena affect macroeconomic inferences pertaining to growth, inequality, welfare, environmental outcomes, health outcomes, labor market outcomes, and the structural evolution of the economy. His work has been funded by the NSF, the PNC Center for Financial Services at Carnegie Mellon University, and LAEF at UCSB.