Professor Tortorice holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Mathematics from MIT and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a macroeconomist studying the causes of economic fluctuations and the formation of macroeconomic expectations. He uses data on expectations to test leading models of expectations, learning-based models of expectations to study consumption volatility, and structural models to examine outflow from and inflow into unemployment. Professor Tortorice’s courses include Macroeconomic Theory and Financial Economics. (tortoric@brandeis.edu)