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Laura Veldkamp (born July 14, 1975) is a American Economist teaching as a Professor of Finance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and also serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.

Education
Veldkamp graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Math and Economics from Northwest University (United States) in 1996. She then received her Ph.D. in Economic Analysis and Policy from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in 2001.

Early Career
Veldkamp started her teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Economics at INSEAD for 3 years from 2001-2003. She then taught at New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Economics from 2003-2008. Before being promoted to an Associate Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. She left New York University in 2015, after spending 15 years teaching there. During this time, she was also employed at the Hoover Institution National Fellow located within Stanford University from 2010-2011 and the Kenen Fellow within the Department of Economics at Princeton University from 2006-2007.

Current Career
She is on the New York University Stern Committees since 2007, with responsibilities including financial oversight, obtaining tenure, and teaching at Ph.D. programs. Veldkamp obtained a National Bureau of Economic Research faculty research fellow in 2008, and a research fellow at Center for Economic and Policy Research since 2009. In 2011, she became a coordinator for the Economic Fluctuations, Growth, and Development research group in the New York University Stern Center for Global Economy and Business. In 2014, she joined the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Macro Annual Editorial Board. Then in 2016, she joined the Board of Editors at the American Economic Journal in the Microeconomics division. She most recently joined the Monetary Policy Advisory Panel in the New York Federal Reserve. She currently teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business as a Professor of Finance and serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.

Research
Veldkamp's research varies from macroeconomics, monetary economics, international finance, and asset pricing. It focuses on how individuals, investors, and firms obtain information, and how that information influences their decisions, and how those decisions change the macroeconomy and financial markets. More recent work investigates how women choose to participate in the labor force, and how women observe influences that contribute to employment patterns that reflects the "geographic patterns of female labor force participation in the United States". She also explores how research for investments are done by mutual fund managers.

Notable Works
Veldkamp is the author of the textbook, Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance, printed by the Princeton University Press. The textbook highlights how information choice can be used to answer questions regarding "monetary economics, portfolio choice theory, business cycle theory, international finance, asset pricing, and other areas." It also covers how information friction can be used to build and test applied theory models, and includes recent research topics such as "rational inattention, information markets, and strategic games with heterogeneous information."

She has many more published works that can be found in The American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, The Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.