Mark Gertler (economist)

Mark Lionel Gertler ( born March 31, 1951) is an American economist and professor at New York University.

Career, teaching and research

Gertler studied at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, which he left in May 1973 as a Bachelor of Arts in Economics for Ph.D. studies in the direction of Stanford University. After graduation in June 1978, he became assistant professor at the Cornell University. In 1981 he returned to the University of Wisconsin, where he was appointed associate professor in 1984 and four years later a full professor. Between 1989 and 1990 Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, he accepted a call in 1990 from New York University. There he was between 1999 and 2003 Director of the CV Starr Center for Applied Economics, the same year he took over the Henry and Lucy Moses Chair.

Gert -coupler main focus lies in the area of ​​macroeconomics and monetary policy. Prior to his appointment as Fed chairman as president of the Federal Reserve Board, he published several research together with Ben Bernanke.

In 1990 Gertler Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, four years later Academic Consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 2003, he went there on the Academic Advisory Board. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.