About
Jacob A. Robbins is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Inequality. He holds a PhD from Brown University (2019) and maintains a blog analyzing real-time economic data and policy debates.
- Research Focus:
- Capital Gains Taxation and Wealth Distribution
- Animal Spirits in Macroeconomic Modeling
- Secular Stagnation and Zero Lower Bound Dynamics
- Medicare/Medicaid Policy Evaluation
- Recent Work:
- Quantified capital gains' role in income inequality (2025)
- Developed Neo-Fisherian models with expectation feedback loops (2025)
- Valued private business sectors at $13.6 trillion (2025)
- Analyzed pandemic-era consumer spending shifts (2021)
0Publications listed
