Ludwig Straub

Ludwig Straub is a professor of economics at Harvard University. His research areas are macroeconomics and international economics. Among his topics of interest are the recent decline in the natural rate of interest, rising levels of private and public debt, and the transmission of monetary and fiscal policy. Ludwig also has an active research agenda solving and analyzing heterogeneous-agent models. Among his most recent papers is a 2025 paper studying the short-run effects of tariff shocks.

Ludwig is the recipient of the 2026 John Bates Clark Medal, a 2024 Sloan Fellowship, and the 2022 AQR Young Researcher Prize. He obtained his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in mathematics from Trinity College in Cambridge, England, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.

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