Levon Barseghyan
Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Cornell University
Levon Barseghyan is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Economics at Cornell University. Prof. Barseghyan’s research involves the study of risk preferences, with a focus on understanding how people perceive and evaluate risk. His work also includes understanding the effects of institutions and policies on economic outcomes, leading to research questions at the intersection of growth, public finance and political economy. Barseghyan has a Diploma in Mathematics from Yerevan State University, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the American University of Armenia, and an M.S. in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.