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Rupal Kamdar serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Indiana University Bloomington's College of Arts & Sciences, having joined the institution in Fall 2019. Her academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2019) and a B.A. in Economic Theory and Mathematics from New York University.
Dr. Kamdar's research program centers on macroeconomic theory with specific expertise in rational inattention frameworks and expectation formation processes. Her scholarly work bridges theoretical modeling with empirical validation, examining how economic agents process information constraints and how these constraints shape macroeconomic outcomes. She has made significant contributions to understanding the relationship between regional economic conditions and Federal Reserve voting behavior, partisan differences in inflation expectations during economic crises, and how information processing limitations affect monetary policy effectiveness.
Her research demonstrates how political affiliation influences economic expectations, with notable work showing that Democrats' inflation expectations remained anchored during the COVID-19 pandemic while Republicans' expectations became unanchored, with measurable impacts on actual inflation outcomes. Her publications have appeared in leading economics journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Journal of Economic Perspectives, with media coverage in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
Dr. Kamdar maintains an active research agenda with multiple ongoing projects examining political identity's role in shaping economic beliefs, higher-order belief formation across partisan lines, optimal macro-financial stabilization policies, and the effects of news shocks on supply-side economic perceptions. Her work consistently integrates theoretical innovation with empirical rigor to address fundamental questions in modern macroeconomics.
