He received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford, and his M.S. from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and B.S. from the University Faculties St-Ignatius Antwerp (Belgium). Prior to joining UCLA, Dr. Lustig spent several years on the economics faculty at the University of Chicago. His research interests focus on asset pricing, macroeconomics, exchange rates and international finance. He has given invited seminars at MIT, Harvard, NYU, Northwestern University, amongst other leading schools in the field of economics. His research has been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, and the Review of Financial Studies.