Details about Kartik Athreya

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Working Papers

2009

1. Are harsh penalties for default really better?
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
2. Credit and self-employment
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond View citations

2008

3. A quantitative theory of information and unsecured credit
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond View citations

2004

4. Fresh start or head start? Uniform bankruptcy exemptions and welfare
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2006)
5. Unsecured debt with public insurance: from bad to worse
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Monetary Economics (2006)

Journal Articles

2009

1. Consumption smoothing and the measured regressivity of consumption taxes
   Economic Quarterly, 2009, (Win), 75-100
2. Self-employment rates and business size: the roles of occupational choice and credit market frictions
   Annals of Finance, 2009, 5, (3), 495-519 View citations
3. Unsecured credit markets are not insurance markets
   Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56, (1), 83-103 View citations

2008

4. Credit access, labor supply, and consumer welfare
   Economic Quarterly, 2008, (Win), 17-44
5. Default, insurance, and debt over the life-cycle
   Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55, (4), 752-774 View citations

2007

6. Implications of some alternatives to capital income taxation
   Economic Quarterly, 2007, (Win), 31-55 View citations
7. Opinion: In praise of theory
   Region Focus, 2007, (Spr), 60

2006

8. Credit exclusion in quantitative models of bankruptcy: does it matter?
   Economic Quarterly, 2006, (Win), 17-49 View citations
9. Fresh start or head start? Uniform bankruptcy exemptions and welfare
   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2006, 30, (11), 2051-2079 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2004)
10. Unsecured debt with public insurance: From bad to worse
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2006, 53, (4), 797-825 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2004)

2005

11. Equilibrium models of personal bankruptcy: a survey
    Economic Quarterly, 2005, (Spr), 73-98 View citations
12. Opinion: The economics of bankruptcy
    Region Focus, 2005, (Sum), 56
13. Risky higher education and subsidies
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2005, 29, (6), 979-1023 View citations

2004

14. Shame as it ever was: stigma and personal bankruptcy
    Economic Quarterly, 2004, (Spr), 1-19 View citations

2003

15. Unemployment insurance and personal bankruptcy
    Economic Quarterly, 2003, (Spr), 33-53

2002

16. Welfare implications of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002, 49, (8), 1567-1595 View citations

2001

17. The growth of unsecured credit: are we better off?
    Economic Quarterly, 2001, (Sum), 11-33 View citations