Andrew B. Abel is Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor of Finance at The Wharton School and professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his AB summa cum laude from Princeton University and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He began his teaching career at the University of Chicago and Harvard University and has held visiting appointments at both Tel Aviv University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A prolific researcher, Abel has published extensively on fiscal policy, capital formation, monetary policy, asset pricing, and social security, as well as serving on the editorial boards of numerous journals.

He has been honored as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a recipient of the John Kenneth Galbraith Award for teaching excellence. Abel has served as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, as a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers at the Congressional Budget Office, and as a member of the Technical Advisory Panel on Assumptions and Methods for the Social Security Advisory Board.

He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie-Rochester NYU Conference Series.