Joshua D. Rauh

Joshua Rauh is the Ormond Family Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution. He formerly taught at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business (2004–2009) and the Kellogg School of Management (2009–2012). 

His research focuses on government liabilities, corporate and individual taxation, and institutional investing. His work has received media coverage in outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and The Economist. He has received various awards recognizing his scholarship, including the Brattle Prize and the Smith Breeden Prize of the American Finance Association. His scholarly papers have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Public Economics. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

He has published extensive commentary and op-eds and is the founder of three substacks: The Fiscal Reality Check, The Energy Balance Sheet, and Liberty Lens Economics.

Prior to his academic career, Dr. Rauh was an associate economist at Goldman Sachs in London. He received a BA from Yale University and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in economics.