David Romer is the Royer Professor in Political Economy at the Univer- sity 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 Univer- sity and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006. At Berkeley, he is a three-time recipient of the Graduate Economic Associ- ationโs distinguished teaching and advising awards; he received Berkeleyโs Social Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award in 2013 2014. Much of his 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 evi- dence on economic growth, and asset-price volatility. His most recent work is concerned with financial crises. He is married to Christina Romer, with whom he frequently collaborates. They have three children, Katherine, Paul, and Matthew.
