Hassan AfrouziPrincipal Research Economist
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Hassan Afrouzi is a principal research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an associate professor of economics at Columbia University. Hassan is also a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research and has held positions as a visiting scholar at Yale University and the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute.
Hassan received a B.S. in mathematics from Sharif University of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. His research broadly focuses on how informational frictions, nominal rigidities, and market imperfections shape macroeconomic outcomes.
Hassan’s work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, among other journals. In 2026, he was the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Hassan received a B.S. in mathematics from Sharif University of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. His research broadly focuses on how informational frictions, nominal rigidities, and market imperfections shape macroeconomic outcomes.
Hassan’s work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, among other journals. In 2026, he was the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.