Mark Gertler

Professor of Economics

Co-director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics

Major Intrests

Macroeconomic Theory, Monetary Economics, Finance

Selected works

• "Agency Costs, Net Worth and Business Fluctuations," with Ben Bernanke. American Economic Review. March 1989.
• "Financial Fragility and Economic Performance," with Ben Bernanke. Quarterly Journal of Economics. February 1990.
• "Asset Pricing with Transaction Costs and Uninsurable Individual Risks," with S. Rao Aiyagari. Journal of Monetary Economics. June 1991.
• "Financial Capacity and Output Fluctuations in an Economy with Multiperiod Financial Arrangements." Review of Economic Studies. October 1992.
• "Monetary Policy, Business Cycles and the Behavior of Small Manufacturing Firms," with Simon Gilchrist. Quarterly Journal of Economics. February 1994.
• "Monetary Policy Rules in Practice: Some International Guidance," with Richard Clarida and Jordi Gali. European Economic Review. June 1998.
• "The Financial Accelerator in a Quantitative Business Cycle Framework," with Ben Bernanke and Simon Gilchrist. The Handbook of Macroeconomics. Forthcoming.

Honors

• 1982 Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society
• 1981-83 Alfred R. Sloan Research Fellow

Affiliations

• Member Econometric Society
• Member American Economic Association