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Basil Halperin

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford University

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Basil Halperin

Basil Halperin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He joins the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of economics in the fall of 2025. His research focuses on topics in monetary economics, macroeconomic growth, and AI.

Halperin completed his B.S. in mathematics, economics, and Chinese at the University of Chicago; and he completed his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Funded Research

Early Career
$15,000

Optimal Monetary Policy with Menu Costs is Nominal Wage Targeting

2021

Basil Halperin’s Working Papers

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