
| Position | Professor |
|---|---|
| Degree | Ph.D. in Economics, University of Melbourne, 2002 |
| Specialty | Computational economics, dynamic programming, stochastic process theory |
| Current Research Interests | Dynamic optimization, computational methods, distribution dynamics, economic networks |
- Professional Career
- Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), 2026--present
- Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, 2025--2026
- Professor, Research School of Economics, Australian National University, 2010--2025
- Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, New York University, 2015--2016
- Associate Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, 2006--2009
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, 2004--2006
- Postdoctoral Fellow, CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain, 2003--2004
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, 2002--2003
- Selected publications
1. Dynamic Programming (with Thomas J. Sargent), Cambridge University Press, 2025
2. Economic Networks: Theory and Computation (with Thomas J. Sargent), Cambridge University Press, 2024
3. Economic Dynamics: Theory and Computation (2nd Ed.), The MIT Press, 2022
4. "Dynamic Programming in Ordered Vector Space" (with Nisha Peng), Operations Research, in press, 2026
5. "Dynamic Programs on Partially Ordered Sets" (with Thomas J. Sargent), SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 63, 778--795, 2025
6. "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Existence and Uniqueness of Recursive Utilities" (with Jaroslav Borovicka), Journal of Finance, 75, 1457--1493, 2020
7. "Dynamic Programming Deconstructed" (with Qingyin Ma), Operations Research, 69(5), 1591--1607, 2021
8. "Trade Clustering and Power Laws in Financial Markets" (with Makoto Nirei and Tsutomu Watanabe), Theoretical Economics, 15(4), 1365--1398, 2020
9. "Computing the Distributions of Economic Models via Simulation" (with Vance Martin), Econometrica, 76(2), 443--450, 2008
10. "Stability of Stochastic Optimal Growth Models: A New Approach" (with Kazuo Nishimura), Journal of Economic Theory, 122(1), 100--118, 2005
- Social contributions
Co-founder of QuantEcon
- Other Notable Activities and Achievements
?Society for Computational Economics Distinguished Service Award (2025)
?Google Research Award (2026), to improve high performance computing methods for macroeconomic modeling
- Media Response Areas
Computational economics
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- e-mail: j-stachurski
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