Assistant Professor · Maastricht University
julian.ashwin@maastrichtuniversity.nl
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I am an Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics in the School of Business and Economics at
Maastricht University. My research focuses on the economics of ageing and longevity,
expectations formation and natural language processing methods.
I am currently a Research Fellow at the Ellison Institute of Technology
and at Netspar.
News
February 2026 New paper "Qualitative Analysis with Large-N: A New Method with an Application to Aspirations in Bangladesh" published in The Economic Journal.
January 2026 Awarded NWO VENI Grant (€320,000) from the Dutch Research Council.
January 2026 Special issue introduction "The Economics of Ageing and Longevity" published in Journal of the Economics of Ageing (with David Canning and Johanna Wallenius).
December 2025 Paper "Reframing the Epidemiological Transition – Increasing Returns to Tackling Ageing-Related Diseases" conditionally accepted at Nature Aging (with David Bloom, Naomi Lee, Peter Piot, and Andrew Scott).
June 2025 Awarded GSBE Fellowship, Maastricht University.
January 2025 Paper "Neural Network Learning for Nonlinear Economies" published in Journal of Monetary Economics (with Paul Beaudry and Martin Ellison).