Kathryn Graddy Explained

Kathryn Graddy
Workplaces:Brandeis University
Alma Mater:Princeton University
Columbia University
Tulane University
Thesis Title:Who pays more? Essays on bargaining and price discrimination.
Thesis Year:1994
Doctoral Advisor:Orley Ashenfelter

Kathryn Graddy is a professor of economics and the dean of Brandeis International Business School at Brandeis University. She is the Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Professor in Economics at Brandeis University. Her research interests include the economics of art, culture, and industrial organization.

Career

Graddy received a BS in mathematics and a BA in Russian language from Tulane University, an MBA from Columbia University, and a PhD in economics from Princeton University. Prior to her position at the University of Oxford, she was appointed as an assistant professor of economics at the London Business School. Afterwards, she was a research fellow at Jesus College and then at Exeter College.[1]

After leaving Oxford, Graddy joined Brandeis University in 2007. She chaired the university's department of economics from 2011 to 2014 and directed the PhD program at Brandeis International Business School (IBS) from 2015 to 2016.[2] In 2013, she was made the Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Professor in Economics.[3] She was named senior associate dean of IBS in 2016, a position she held until she became dean in 2018.

Research

Graddy's research interests include the economics of art, culture, and industrial organization.[4] She has been widely quoted in the media as an expert on art auctions and investment in art.[5] [6] [7]

Graddy spent a month shadowing a trader at the Fulton Fish Market to analyze competition within fish markets, and published the results in 2006 study finding that traders appeared to charge different prices to different ethnic groups and that perfect competition at the market was not apparent.[8] [9]

In a 2017 paper co-authored with Princeton University economist Carl Lieberman, the two economists concluded that "artists, in the year following the death of a friend or relative, are on average less creative than at other times of their lives." The results were based on an analysis of thirty-three French Impressionist painters and fifteen American artists born between 1910 and 1920.[10] [11] The results, which were featured in the popular press, followed an earlier working paper by Graddy that found that visual artists' creative output suffered during periods of bereavement.[12] [13] [14]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kathryn Graddy named dean of Brandeis University International Business School . . December 5, 2020 . May 1, 2018.
  2. News: Kathryn Graddy receives honorary doctorate in Copenhagen . November 17, 2021 . . March 22, 2018.
  3. Web site: Kathryn Graddy named the Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Professor of Economics . Department of Economics Blog . . November 17, 2021 . January 31, 2013.
  4. Web site: Kathryn Graddy . . December 5, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201205162739/https://www.brandeis.edu/global/about/dean/biography.html . December 5, 2020.
  5. News: Rocheleau . Matt . In today's market, could the stolen Gardner art be worth $1 billion? . May 1, 2021 . . November 27, 2018.
  6. News: Ehrenfreund . Max . Why this Picasso sold for $180 million and what it tells us about the super rich . May 1, 2021 . . May 12, 2015.
  7. News: Carvajal . Doreen . Danh Vo and Bert Kreuk's Legal Battle Pits Artist Against Collector . May 1, 2021 . . July 13, 2015.
  8. News: Harford . Tim . What do fish markets teach us about the economy? . December 5, 2020 . . June 22, 2007.
  9. News: . How deep are your pockets? . December 5, 2020 . . June 30, 2012.
  10. News: Jacobs . Tom . Contrary to Cliché, Misery May Inhibit Creativity . December 5, 2020 . . December 5, 2017.
  11. News: Voon . Claire . "Tortured" Artists Are Actually Less Creative, Study Suggests . December 5, 2020 . . December 6, 2017.
  12. News: Malvern . Jack . There's no need to suffer for your art . December 5, 2020 . . December 24, 2015.
  13. News: Clark . Nick . An academic has debunked the myth of the tortured artist . December 5, 2020 . . December 22, 2015.
  14. News: Blakemore . Erin . Grief May Not Make Artists Better . December 5, 2020 . . January 8, 2016.