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Greg Kaplan is the Alvin H. Baum Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago.
His research spans macroeconomics, labor economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on the distributional consequences of economic policies and economic forces. He has published extensively on the topics of fiscal and monetary policy, labor markets and unemployment, risk sharing and inequality, consumption and shopping behavior, and household formation and migration.
Greg is an Editor at the Journal of Political Economy, Lead Editor of Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, Co-founder and Chairman of e61 Institute, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is also an Economic Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Greg was previously Professor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Princeton University, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and an Economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He has held visiting positions at the University of New South Wales, Sydney University and the Reserve Bank of Australia. He was previously an Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics.
Greg received a PhD from New York University in 2009, an MSc from the London School of Economics in 2002 and a BCom (Hons) from Macquarie University in 2000.
In 2015 he received a Sloan Foundation fellowship and in 2019 he was awarded the Central Banking Prize for Economics in Central Banking for his paper Monetary Policy According to HANK, joint with Ben Moll and Gianluca Violante. In 2021 Greg co-founded the e61 Institute, a non-partisan economic research institute in Australia.