Martin Eichenbaum

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Martin S. Eichenbaum
Eichenbaum, 2024
Born	(1954-08-23) August 23, 1954 (age 71)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Minnesota McGill University
Doctoral advisor	Thomas J. Sargent

Martin Stewart Eichenbaum (born August 23, 1954) is the Charles Moskos professor of economics at Northwestern University, and the co-director of the Center for International Economics and Development. His research focuses on macroeconomics, international economics, and monetary theory and policy.

Biography

After graduating from McGill University (B.Comm. in Economics, 1976) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D. Economics, 1981) he served as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University before moving to Northwestern University in 1988. He is currently the Charles Moskos professor of Economics at Northwestern University and, in addition, the co-director of the Center for International Economics and Development there. During his career, he also taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Chicago, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he has been a consultant to the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco as well as the International Monetary Fund.

Eichenbaum is married to Yona and has two children, Rachel and Joseph.

Eichenbaum served on the Northwestern committee to fight anti-Semitism.

Contributions

Eichenbaums's research focuses on macroeconomics, international economics, and monetary theory and policy. Specifically, he has been concerned with understanding aggregate economic fluctuations, studying the causes and consequences of exchange rate fluctuations, as well as the effect of monetary policy on postwar United States business cycles.

Selected papers

• Eichenbaum, Martin S; Rebelo, Sergio; Trabandt, Mathias (2020). "The Macroeconomics of Epidemics". National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper Series (26882). doi: 10.3386/w26882 .
• Craig Burnside; Martin Eichenbaum; Sergio Rebelo (August 2016). "Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets". Journal of Political Economy. 124 (4): 1088–114. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.716.557 . doi:10.1086/686732. S2CID   6276397.
• Lawrence J. Christiano; Martin Eichenbaum; Charles L. Evans (2005). "Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy". Journal of Political Economy. 113 (1): 1–45. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.322.1620 . doi:10.1086/426038. ISSN   0022-3808. JSTOR   10.1086/426038. S2CID   158727660.
• Eichenbaum, Martin, Evans, Charles L. (1995). "Some Empirical Evidence on the Effects of Shocks to Monetary Policy on Exchange Rates". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 110 (4): 975–1009. doi:10.2307/2946646. JSTOR   2946646.
• Christiano, Lawrence J., Eichenbaum, Martin, Evans, Charles L. (1999), J. B. Taylor; M. Woodford (eds.), Monetary policy shocks: What have we learned and to what end?, Handbook of Macroeconomics, vol. 1, Elsevier, pp. 65–148, doi:10.1016/S1574-0048(99)01005-8, ISBN   978-0-444-50156-1, ISSN   1574-0048, S2CID   15795853
• Craig Burnside; Martin Eichenbaum; Sergio Rebelo (December 2001). "Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crisis" (PDF). Journal of Political Economy. 109 (6): 1155–1197. doi:10.1086/323271. hdl: 10161/1983 . JSTOR   323271. S2CID   14984128.
• Burnside, Craig, Eichenbaum, Martin, Rebelo, Sergio (April 1993). "Labor Hoarding and the Business Cycle". Journal of Political Economy. 101 (2): 245–73. doi:10.1086/261875. JSTOR   2138819. S2CID   6175373.
• Christiano, Lawrence J, Eichenbaum, Martin (June 1992) [1990]. "Current Real Business Cycle Theories and Aggregate Labor Market Fluctuations". Current Real-Business-Cycle Theories and Aggregate Labor-Market Fluctuations. Vol. 82. pp. 430–50. doi:10.4324/9780203070710.ch10 (inactive 12 July 2025). ISBN   978-0-415-16568-6. JSTOR   2117314.{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

Associations

Eichenbaum was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. ^[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2021. ^[2] He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as the co-editor of the American Economic Review from 2011 to 2015. He is now the co-editor of the NBER Macro Annual. ^[3] In addition, he is on the board of directors of the Bank of Montreal. ^[4]

In 2019, Eichenbaum became MAS Term professor at the National University of Singapore. ^[5]

References

1. "Martin Stewart Eichenbaum". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
2. "Martin Stewart Eichenbaum" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
3. "NBER Macroeconomics Annual". The National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
4. "Bank of Montreal Announces Election of Directors". BMO Financial Group. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
5. "Distinguished macroeconomist Martin Eichenbaum appointed MAS Term Professor at NUS". National University of Singapore. March 5, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2019.

External links

• Martin Eichenbaum publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Martin Eichenbaum's homepage Archived 2008-05-20 at the Wayback Machine at Northwestern University
• The Center for International Macroeconomics
• Links to articles, REPEC Archived 2021-08-12 at the Wayback Machine