Nick Pretnar
Bio
Nick graduated from Tepper with a PhD in Economics in May of 2020. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a macroeconomist whose research focusses on growth, development, and household finance, specifically how behavioral phenomena determine agent-level consumption and savings decisions as well as macroeconomic outcomes. His work has been funded by the NSF and Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation, among other institutions. He regularly consults for the Federal Reserve Bank’s of Saint Louis and Cleveland, and is frequently a visiting scholar at the European Central Bank and Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Nick has given seminars and lectures at universities and banks on every continent except Antarctica. For 2025-2026 he is visiting the economics department at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.