David romer

David Romer is the Royer Professor in Political Economy at the University

of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 1988.
He is also co-director of the program in Monetary Economics at the National
Bureau of Economic Research. He received his A.B. from Princeton University
and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has
been on the faculty at Princeton and has been a visiting faculty member
at M.I.T. and Stanford University. At Berkeley, he is a three-time recipient
of the Graduate Economic Associations distinguished teaching and advising
awards. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
a former member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic
Association, and co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
Most of his recent research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy; this work
considers both the effects of policy on the economy and the determinants
of policy. His other research interests include the foundations of price stickiness,
empirical evidence on economic growth, and asset-price volatility. He
is married to Christina Romer, with whom he frequently collaborates. They
have three children, Katherine, Paul, and Matthew.