Martin Eichenbaum

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 • • • • • • • • ==Associations==

Eichenbaum was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2021. 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. In addition, he is on the board of directors of the Bank of Montreal. In 2019, Eichenbaum became MAS Term professor at the National University of Singapore. ==References==