Maya R. Eden

Assistant Professor of Economics

Departments/Programs

Economics

Degrees

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D.
Hebrew University Jerusalem, B.Sc.

Expertise

Macroeconomics

Profile

Maya Eden is an assistant professor of economics at Brandeis University. Prior to joining the economics department in the Fall of 2017, she worked as an economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth Team of the Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank. She holds a PhD in economics from MIT, and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the Hebrew University. Her research areas are macroeconomics and welfare economics. Her recent work focuses on income inequality.

Courses Taught

ECON	82b	Macroeconomic Theory
ECON	302a	Advanced Microeconomics II
ECON	330a	International Macroeconomics

Awards and Honors

Bernstein Faculty Fellow (2020 - 2021)

CEPR Research Affiliate (2019)

Scholarship

Eden, Maya R.. "Time Inseparable Labor Productivity and the Workweek." The Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2020). (forthcoming)

Alessandro Barattieri, Maya R. Eden and Dalibor Stevanovic. "Risk Sharing, Efficiency of Capital Allocation, and the Connection between Banks and the Real Economy." Journal of Corporate Finance 60. February (2020): 101538.

Eden, Maya R.. "Welfare Analysis with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences." Journal of Political Economy 128. 12 (2020): 4574-4613.

Maya Eden and Paul Gaggl. "Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT?." World Bank Economic Review 34. 1 (2020): 48–62.

Eden, Maya. "International Liquidity Rents." Review of Economic Dynamics 31. January (2019): 147-159.

Eden, Maya; Kay, Benjamin. "Safe Assets as Commodity Money." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 51. 6 (2019): 1651-1689.

Alessandro Barattieri, Maya Eden and Dalibor Stevanovic. "Financial Sector Interconnectedness and Monetary Policy Transmission." Macroeconomic Dynamics February. (2018): 1-28.

Maya Eden and Paul Gaggl. "On the Welfare Implications of Automation." Review of Economic Dynamics 29. (2018): 15-43.

David Bulman, Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen. "Transitioning from Low-Income Growth to High-Income Growth: Is There a Middle Income Trap?." Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 22. 1 (2017): 5-28.

Eden, Maya. "Misallocation and the Distribution of Global Volatility." American Economic Review 107. 2 (2017): 592-622.

Eden, Maya. "Excessive Financing Costs in a Representative Agent Framework 8(2)." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 8. 2 (2016): 215-237.