Mark Gertler (economist)

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

Career, research and teaching

Gertler first studied at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , which he received in May 1973 as a Bachelor of Arts in economics to a Ph.D. - Graduated towards Stanford University . After graduation in June 1978, he moved as an assistant professor at the Cornell University . In 1981 he returned to the University of Wisconsin, where he was appointed associate professor in 1984 and full professor four years later. Between 1989 and 1990 visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University , he followed a call from New York University in 1990 . There he was director of the CV Starr Center for Applied Economics between 1999 and 2003 , and in the same year he took over the Henry and Lucy Moses Chair .

Gertler's main focus is on macroeconomics and monetary policy . Before he was appointed head of the central bank as President of the Federal Reserve Board, he published various research papers with Ben Bernanke .

In 1990 Gertler became Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research , four years later Academic Consultant of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York . In 2003 he was promoted to the Academic Advisory Board. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society . In 2010 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

• Mark Gertler at New York University
• Mark Gertler in the IDEAS database
• Literature by and about Mark Gertler in the catalog of the German National Library