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Levon Barseghyan is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Economics and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Field of Economics at Cornell University. He joined Cornell in 2003 after completing his PhD at Northwestern University. Barseghyan has also earned a Diploma in Mathematics from Yerevan State University, Armenia, and two master's degrees in Industrial Engineering from the American University of Armenia and in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests span Applied Microeconomics, Insurance, Political Economy, and Public Finance, with a focus on understanding preferences, competition, and risk in economic decision-making. He has published extensively on topics such as risk preferences, public school choice, fiscal policy, and institutional causes of output volatility, contributing to journals like the American Economic Journal and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His work has implications for understanding economic behavior and policy design, particularly in areas affected by uncertainty and public policy.
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