Dr. Tony Smith

Biography

Anthony Smith, Jr. (Tony) is the FAS Dean of Social Science and William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University. He served as Chair of the Department of Economics at Yale from 2019 to 2025. Smith received his B.S. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 1990. He has taught at Queen's University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Rochester and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Smith has served as an Associate Editor for the Review of Economic Dynamics and is currently the Co-Editor for Macroeconomic Dynamics. His research spans macroeconomics and econometrics, focusing on topics such as income and wealth heterogeneity, business cycles, asset pricing, behavioral macroeconomics, and computational methods. In econometrics, he studies simulation-based estimation of structural models and measurement of labor income risk. His recent work lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, climate science, and environmental economics, collaborating with climate scientists to develop global, high-resolution models of the interactions between the economy and climate.

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