Martin Stewart Eichenbaum (born August 23, 1954) is the Charles Moskos professor of

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, 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

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(B.Comm. in Economics, 1976) and the

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(Ph.D. Economics, 1981) he served as an assistant professor at

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before moving to Northwestern University in 1988. He is currently the Charles Moskos professor of

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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

, the

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, and the

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. In addition, he has been a consultant to the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago,

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, and

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as well as the

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. Eichenbaum is married to Yona and has two children.

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

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Associations

Eichenbaum was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2021. He is a fellow of the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...

and a research associate at the

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. He served as the co-editor of the ''

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'' from 2011 to 2015. He is now the co-editor of the NBER Macro Annual. In addition, he is on the board of directors of the

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. In 2019, Eichenbaum became

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Term professor at the

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References

External links

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Martin Eichenbaum's homepage
at Northwestern University

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