Roozbeh Hosseini

B457 Amos Hall

PhD, Economics, University of Minnesota, 2008
MS, Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
MA, Socio-Economic Systems, Institute for Research in Planning and Development, 2000
BS, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1997

Gervais, Martin, and Roozbeh Hosseini. 2026. Risk Sharing across U.S. States and EU Countries
Gervais, Martin, Roozbeh Hosseini, and Larry F. Warren. 2026. Recalls, Occupational Mobility, and Reservation Wages in the UI Claimant Population
Gervais, Martin, Roozbeh Hosseini, and Larry F. Warren. 2026. Unemployment Insurance, Wage Pass-Through, and Endogenous Take-Up.
Andolfatto, David, and Roozbeh Hosseini. 2026. Tariff Policy with an Exorbitant Privilege
Hosseini, Roozbeh, and Ali Shourideh. 2024. Inequality, Redistribution and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach.

Hosseini, Roozbeh. 2026. Adverse Selection, Public Annuitization, and the Structure of Annuity and Life Insurance Markets. The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review.
Hosseini, Roozbeh, Karen A. Kopecky, and Kai Zhao, K. 2026. How important is health inequality for lifetime earnings inequality?. Review of Economic Studies, 93(1): 556-599.
Hosseini, Roozbeh, Karen A. Kopecky, and Kai Zhao. 2022. The Evolution of Health over the Life Cycle. Review of Economic Dynamics, 45: 237-263
Hosseini, Roozbeh, and Ali Shourideh. 2019. Retirement Financing: An Optimal Reform Approach. Econometrica, 87(4): 1205-1265.
Hosseini, Roozbeh. 2015. Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security. Journal Of Political Economy,123(4): 941-984.
Caliendo, Frank N. , Nick L. Guo, and Roozbeh Hosseini. 2014. Social Security is NOT a Substitute for Annuity Markets. Review Of Economic Dynamics, 17(4): 739-755.
Hosseini, Roozbeh, Larry E. Jones, and Ali Shourideh. 2013. Optimal Contracting with Dynastic Altruism: Consumption and Family Size. Journal Of Economic Theory, 148(5): 1806-1840.

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