Jonathan Heathcote

Jonathan Heathcote joined Duke in the Fall of 2000. After receiving a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, he taught for two years at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. A native of Derbyshire, England, Heathcote received his B.A. from Oxford University. His research interests are in the fields of macroeconomics and international macroeconomics. He has recently written several papers addressing the implications of income and wealth inequality for the effects of fiscal policy.
Recent Research
Housing and the Business Cycle" (with M. Davis)
Factor Taxation with Heterogeneous Agents (with D. Domeij)
Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Incomplete Markets
Financial Autarky and International Real Business Cycles (with F. Perri)

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Selected Publications
"Frictions and Incomplete Markets: Three Papers in Macroeconomics," Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
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