Leena Rudanko is an assistant professor of economics at Boston University, and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2007; her research has been published in leading economics journals.

She is a macroeconomist with a special interest in frictional markets with long-term trading relationships. She has studied the implications of long-term wage contracting on cyclical fluctuations in unemployment and job creation, as well as the impact of limited insurance against the risk of job loss on the same. At Hoover she will be working on two projects: the impact of labor unions on the aggregate economy and the implications of frictional product markets for firm dynamics, both theoretically and empirically, as well as their implications for the economy as a whole.