Rate My Professor Andre Kurmann

Andre Kurmann is a Professor of Economics and the Dean’s Research Scholar in Economics in the School of Economics at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, specializing in Business & Economics. He earned a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia, along with a master’s degree and undergraduate degree in economics from HEC Lausanne. His professional career includes serving as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. from 2011 to 2013, visiting associate professor in the finance department at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2011, and assistant and associate professor in the economics department at Université du Québec à Montréal from 2002 to 2008. He currently holds an adjunct professor position at The Wharton School.

Kurmann’s academic interests focus on macroeconomics and monetary economics, labor economics, mathematical and quantitative methods, computational economics, and economics/managerial economics. His key publications include “News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates” with Christopher Otrok (American Economic Review, 2013), “Revisions in Utilization-Adjusted TFP and Robust Identification of News Shocks” with Eric Sims (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021), “Fair Wages in a New Keynesian Model of the Business Cycle” with Jean-Pierre Danthine (Review of Economic Dynamics, 2004), “Measuring Small Business Dynamics and Employment with Private-Sector Real-Time Data” with Etienne Lale and Lien Ta (Journal of Public Economics, 2025), “School Closures and Effective In-Person Learning during Covid-19” with Etienne Lale (Economics of Education Review, 2023), and “Dynamic Inefficiency in Decentralized Capital Markets” with Stanislav Rabinovich (Journal of Economic Theory, 2018). Kurmann serves as associate editor for the Journal of Monetary Economics since 2017 and for the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control from 2017 to 2018. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center and received a $237,900 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2015 for research on the impact of globalization on U.S. entrepreneurship. His research has been cited over 1,800 times according to Google Scholar.