Title
Chancellor’s Professor of Economics
Department
Dept of Economics
Faculty URL
https://eml.berkeley.edu/~enakamura/
Email
enakamura@berkeley.edu
Phone
(510) 642-5837
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Research Expertise and Interest
macroeconomics, monetary policy
Research Description
Emi Nakamura is the Chancellor's Professor of Economics in the Berkeley Economics department. Her research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles and macroeconomic measurement. She is a co-editor of the American Economic Review, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-director of the Monetary Economics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She serves?on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers. She is a recipient of the?John Bates Clark medal, the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, the?NSF Career Grant, and the Sloan Research Fellowship. She?holds a PhD from Harvard University and an A.B. from Princeton University, and taught at the Columbia economics department and business school before joining the Berkeley economics department in 2018.
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