Sad News - Julio Rotemberg

From: James Poterba <poterba_at_nber.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 00:42:46 -0400

Dear EFG and ME Progam Members -

I am very sorry to share the news that long-time Research Associate
Julio Rotemberg passed away yesterday after a two year battle with
cancer. Julio was the William Ziegler Professor of Business
Administration at the Harvard Business School; he taught at the MIT
Sloan School of Management prior to joining the HBS faculty in 1997.
Julio, who received his Ph.D. from Princeton, became an NBER affiliate
in 1986 and served as the co-editor of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual
between 1993 and 1998.

Julio was a wide-ranging researcher whose work on price rigidity, and on
the role of monopolistic competition in helping to explain aggregate
fluctuations, played a key role in the development of New Keynesian
macroeconomics. Along with Mike Woodford, he was an early contributor
to the formulation of DSGE models. Julio was a Fellow of the
Econometric Society, and he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the
American Economic Association in January 2017.

Julio was an active participant in many NBER activities, and he will be
deeply missed.

Jim Poterba
Received on Mon Apr 03 2017 - 08:28:27 EDT