Jón Steinsson
Jón Steinsson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976 (age 49–50) |
| Citizenship | Iceland and the United States |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
| Spouse | Emi Nakamura |
| Awards | Sloan Foundation Grant, 2017-2020, (with Emi Nakamura) Wolf Balleisen Memorial Prize for best undergraduate thesis in economics at Princeton, 2000 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Central Bank of Iceland |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Barro and Kenneth Rogoff |
| Website | https://eml.berkeley.edu/~jsteinsson/ |
Jón Steinsson (born 1976) is an Icelandic-American economist specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics. He is the Chancellor's Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, a research associate and co-director of the Monetary Economics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and serves as an associate editor of both American Economic Review: Insights and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Steinsson received his PhD in economics from Harvard University and his AB from Princeton University. His research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles, and the impact of government spending on economic activity. Together with his spouse and frequent co-author, Emi Nakamura, he has published widely cited work on price stickiness, fiscal multipliers, and the empirical foundations of New Keynesian models.