Erik Hurst Joins Macroeconomics Annual Editorial Team

Erik Hurst, who is the V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the deputy director of the Becker Friedman Institute, will be a co-organizer and co-editor of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual beginning in 2019. Hurst is a wide-ranging applied macroeconomist whose work has touched on labor markets, household finance, and household financial behavior. His research has been recognized with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Prize for Research on Lifelong Financial Security. He is a past co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy. 

An NBER affiliate since 2003, Hurst is a research associate in the Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Public Economics, and Aging Programs. He received his BS from Clarkson University and his PhD from the University of Michigan.

Hurst will join current co-organizers Martin Eichenbaum, the Charles Moskos Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, and Jonathan Parker, the Robert C. Merton Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in convening the 2019 Annual Conference on Macroeconomics. Parker will step down from the organizing team after that meeting, and Eichenbaum and Hurst will organize subsequent conferences.