Welcome, Fáilte, Välkommen!

I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University.

I graduated from Stanford University in 2023. I am a research affiliate at the Central Bank of Ireland and an associate at Harvard University, where I was previously a postdoctoral fellow.

My research interests are in macroeconomics, finance and real estate.

You can find my CV here and can reach me at brian.higgins@iies.su.se.

Working Papers

Racial Segmentation in the US Housing Market
Paper (2023)
Best Junior Scholar Paper (AREUEA 2023)

Savings and Consumption Responses to Persistent Income Shocks
(with Terry O’Malley and Fang Yao)
Paper (2024), Slides

Differential Effects of LTV and LTI Limits on Mortgage Choices
Paper (2025), ECB Working Paper (Older version)
Lamfalussy Fellowship (European Central Bank)

Work in progress

Boom, Bust, Rebound: Two Decades of Earnings Inequality, Risk and Mobility in Ireland
(with Tara McIndoe-Calder, Ciaran Judge, Barra Roantree, Kun Wu)
In Preparation for special issue of Journal of Macroeconomics

The Leaky Pipeline: Retention, Performance and Promotion Policies
(with Kate Reinmuth)