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Indrajit Mitra is a research economist and assistant adviser on the financial markets team in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His research interests cover topics at the intersection of asset pricing and corporate finance with an emphasis on the connection between labor and financial markets, and methods to solve and analyze heterogeneous agent models in general equilibrium.
Before joining the Atlanta Fed in 2020, Dr. Mitra was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He received his doctoral degree in financial economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a doctoral degree in theoretical particle physics from Princeton University.
2023-6
The Profitability Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission
Alex Hsu, Indrajit Mitra, and Linghang Zeng
June 2023
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2021-22
High Discounts and Low Fundamental Surplus: An Equivalence Result for Unemployment Fluctuations
Indrajit Mitra, Taeuk Seo, and Yu Xu
September 2021
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2021-16
Near-Rational Equilibria in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: A Verification Method
Indrajit Mitra and Yu Xu
June 2021
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2020-20
Limited Household Risk Sharing: General Equilibrium Implications for the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Indrajit Mitra and Yu Xu
November 2020
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Salome Baslandze, Simon Fuchs, Indrajit Mitra, and Veronika Penciakova. "The Atlanta Fed's Early Career Visitor Program Workshop: A Synopsis," Policy Hub: Macroblog. October 20, 2022.
"Time-Varying Risk Premium and Unemployment Risk across Age Groups", Review of Financial Studies, 33 (8), August 2020, 3624–3673 (with Y. Xu).
"Extreme Risk Analysis", Journal of Performance Management (Spring) 14 (3). (with L. Goldberg, J. Menchero, and M. Hayes).
"The Structure of Hybrid Factor Models", Journal of Investment Management (Q3) 6 (3). (with J. Menchero).
February
Limited Household Risk Sharing: General Equilibrium Implications for the Term Structure of Interest Rates (with Y. Xu).
October
Near-Rational Equilibria in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: A Verification Method (with L. Kogan).
May
Moral Hazard, Firm Age, and Slow Recovery with Uncertainty Shocks.
"Large Shocks in Heterogeneous Agent Economies". (with E. Bayraktar and J. Zhang).
"High Discounts and Low Fundamental Surplus: An Equivalence Result for Unemployment Fluctuations" (with Y. Xu).
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North American Summer Meeting Econometric Society
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European Finance Association*
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Summer Forum*
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics
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Minnesota Macro—Asset Pricing conference*
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