"Saving for a Sunny Day: an Alternative Theory of Precautionary Savings", by José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, University of Pennsylvania (Venue: SIPA 220)

Dr. Ríos-Rull is the director of Penn Institute for economic research at the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Associate Editor of SERIEs, and an NBER Research Associate. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1990. He has previously held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Ríos-Rull has very varied interests, from the almost compulsory among economists (the nature of monetary policy and fluctuations) to the dark (why people die) to the extravagant (what men and women like on each other), to the technical (generalized Euler equations).