Natalia Kovrijnykh
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Phone: 480-965-7158
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CPCOM 435H Tempe, AZ 85287-9801
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Mail code: 9801Campus: Tempe
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Natalia Kovrijnykh is an Associate Professor of Economics at the W. P. Carey School of Business. She holds bachelor's degree in Mathematics and master’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Novosibirsk State University, Russia, a master’s degree in Economics from CERGE, Czech Republic, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. She works in fields of contract theory, macroeconomics, and financial economics. Her research is focused on contracts under various commitment and informational frictions in applications such as consumer, corporate, and sovereign lending, credit rating, and asset management. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Economic Theory.
- PhD in Economics, University of Chicago 2008
- MA in Economics, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic 2001
- MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Novosibirsk State University, Russia 1998
- BSc in Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia 1996
- Applied Theory
- Macroeconomics
- Financial Economics
- Contracts
- "Equilibrium Default Cycles," 2007, joint with Balázs Szentes, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 115, No. 3 (June): 403-446.
- "Debt Contracts with Partial Commitment," 2013, American Economic Review, Vol. 103, No. 7 (December): 2848-2874
- “Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?” 2016, with Anil Kashyap, Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 29 (February): 420−456
- “Delegated Information Acquisition with Moral Hazard,” 2016, with Hector Chade, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 162 (March): 55−92
- “Screening as a Unified Theory of Delinquency, Renegotiation, and Bankruptcy,” 2017, with Igor Livshits, International Economic Review, Vol. 58 (May): 499−527
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“The Benchmark Inclusion Subsidy,” 2021, with Anil Kashyap, Jian Li, and Anna Pavlova, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 142 (November): 756-774
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"Is There Too Much Benchmarking in Asset Management?" with Anil Kashyap, Jian Li, and Anna Pavlova, forthcoming in the American Economic Review
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 713 | Macroeconomic Analysis II |
| ECN 313 | Intermed Macroeconomic Theory |
| ECN 313 | Intermed Macroeconomic Theory |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 713 | Macroeconomic Analysis II |
| ECN 313 | Intermed Macroeconomic Theory |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 713 | Macroeconomic Analysis II |
| ECN 791 | Seminar |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 791 | Seminar |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 791 | Seminar |
| ECN 784 | Internship |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 713 | Macroeconomic Analysis II |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
| ECN 592 | Research |
| ECN 599 | Thesis |
| ECN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 784 | Internship |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 592 | Research |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
| ECN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 599 | Thesis |
| ECN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 715 | Adv Macroeconomic Analysis |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 791 | Seminar |
| ECN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 791 | Seminar |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
| ECN 784 | Internship |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 713 | Macroeconomic Analysis II |
| ECN 584 | Internship |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
| ECN 592 | Research |
| ECN 599 | Thesis |
| ECN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 784 | Internship |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 592 | Research |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
| ECN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 599 | Thesis |
| ECN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 784 | Internship |
| ECN 792 | Research |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 791 | Seminar |
| ECN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 791 | Seminar |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ECN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ECN 792 | Research |
| ECN 795 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 799 | Dissertation |
| ECN 713 | Macroeconomic Analysis II |
| ECN 593 | Applied Project |
| ECN 592 | Research |
| ECN 599 | Thesis |
| ECN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| ECN 313 | Intermed Macroeconomic Theory |
Assistant Professor of Economics, Arizona State University: July 2008-present.