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Levon Barseghyan is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Economics. He joined Cornell University in 2003, after completing his PhD at Northwestern University. He also holds a Diploma in Mathematics from Yerevan State University, an MS in Industrial Engineering from the American University of Armenia, and an MS in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

While Professor Barseghyan has worked on a variety of topics, most of his research falls into two categories.

One pertains to the study of risk preferences, with a focus on understanding how people perceive and evaluate risk. Three major questions addressed in his work are whether risk preferences are stable across contexts/markets, what is the behavioral nature of risk preferences, and what are the potential impacts of limited consideration on choice under risk.

The other aims at understanding the effects of institutions and policies on economic outcomes, leading to research questions at the intersection of growth, public finance and political economy. His earlier work focused on how government policies affect macroeconomic outcomes. Subsequently he has been working on understanding how institutions, and political economy constraints in general, influence the joint evolution of policies and economic outcomes.




Contact Information

Levon Barseghyan
Professor
402D Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

E-mail: lb247@cornell.edu
Phone: (607) 255-6284
Fax: (607) 255-2818