Anton Korinek

Anton Korinek is a Professor at the University of Virginia in the Department of Economics and the Darden School of Business. He also holds several prestigious positions, including David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Economics Lead at the Centre for the Governance of AI, and Research Associate at both the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Korinek earned his PhD from Columbia University in 2007 after gaining extensive experience in the IT and financial sectors. His research focuses on macroeconomics, international finance, and inequality, with recent work examining the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence on macroeconomic dynamics and social inequality. He also studies capital controls and macroprudential regulation as tools to mitigate financial crises, exploring their global spillover effects and implications for income distribution.