Prior to her position at the University of Oxford, she was appointed as an assistant professor of economics at the London Business School.
[1] She chaired the university's department of economics from 2011 to 2014 and directed the PhD program at Brandeis International Business School (IBS) from 2015 to 2016.
[1] Graddy's research interests include the economics of art, culture, and industrial organization.
The results were based on an analysis of thirty-three French Impressionist painters and fifteen American artists born between 1910 and 1920.
[10][11] The results, which were featured in the popular press, followed an earlier working paper by Graddy that found that visual artists' creative output suffered during periods of bereavement.