Rate My Professor Radek Paluszynski

Radek Paluszynski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston within Business & Economics, a position he has held since September 2016, with promotion to associate professor in September 2023. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in July 2016, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in November 2014, an M.A. in Quantitative Methods in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics in July 2011, and a B.A. in Quantitative Methods in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics in July 2009. Earlier in his career, Paluszynski served as a Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from September 2013 to August 2015, Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota from September 2011 to July 2013, and Research Assistant at the Embassy of Denmark in Warsaw from March 2009 to July 2010. He has undertaken invited research visits, including as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2023-2024, Early Career Visitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in 2022, and at Academia Sinica and the Inter-American Development Bank in 2019.

Paluszynski's research focuses on international economics, macroeconomics, and time inconsistency, with interests extending to information economics. His publications appear in prestigious journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Quantitative Economics. Notable works include "Capital Regulation and Shadow Finance: A Quantitative Analysis" with Hyunju Lee and Sunyoung Lee (Review of Economic Studies, 2024), "Efficient Consolidation of Incentives for Education and Retirement Savings" with Pei Cheng Yu (AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2023), "Commitment versus Flexibility and Sticky Prices: Evidence from Life Insurance" with Pei Cheng Yu (Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023), "Borrowing into Debt Crises" with George Stefanidis (Quantitative Economics, 2023), and "Learning about Debt Crises" (AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2023). Current working papers cover intangible capital and non-bank financing, ultralong sovereign default risk, rollover and interest-rate risks in sovereign default models, and globalization accounting. He has presented at major venues including Society for Economic Dynamics meetings, NBER Summer Institutes, SAET conferences, Federal Reserve Banks, IMF, and universities globally. Paluszynski teaches courses at the University of Houston such as Economics of Financial Crises, Intermediate Microeconomics, Quantitative Macroeconomics, and Principles of Microeconomics, and received the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship.