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Office Number
225F
Phone
859-257-2890
Email
steven.lugauer@uky.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
  • MS, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
  • MBA, University of Miami, 2003
  • BA, University of Chicago, 1998

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Steven Lugauer is an associate professor of economics and the director of graduate studies for economics at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics. His research into the macroeconomic implications of population aging, changing fertility patterns and household saving decisions has been published in academic journals such as the Economic Journal, the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, and the American Economic Journal:  Macroeconomics.  He is an award-winning teacher and he has advised more than 30 undergraduate and graduate level researchers who have gone on to some of the top institutions in the world. His current research focuses on the topics of climate change and investing in outer space exploration.


Teaching Expertise:

  • Forecasting for Business
  • Macroeconomics

Research Expertise:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Population Aging
  • Climate Change
  • Outer Space Exploration

Selected Publications

  • Towards a Climate OSSE Framework for Satellite Mission Design
    (2026) Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
    with Ann M. Fridlind, Gregory Elsaesser, et al.
  • Waste-Heat and Economic Growth in the very Long Run
    (2025) Economics Letters
    with Chadwick Curtis
  • Policy and Misallocation: Evidence from Chinese Firm-Level Data
    (2022) European Economic Review
    with Guowen Chen and Ana María Herrera
  • Is Fertility a Leading Economic Indicator?
    (2021) The Economic Journal
    with Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman
  • Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China
    (2015) American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
    with Chadwick C. Curtis and Nelson C. Mark