Gauti Eggertsson

Gauti Bergþóruson Eggertsson is a professor of economics at Brown University. 

Education 
Gauti received his B.S. in economics from the University of Iceland, and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2004. 

Research career 
Gauti has worked at the research departments of the International Monetary Fund (2002-2004) and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2004-2012).  The main focus of Gauti 's work is the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy over the business cycle.  His best known work is on the zero lower bound on interest rate policy of central banks in joint work with Michael Woodford.  This work is widely cited as the foundation of the so-called forward guidance by several central banks in the world during the financial crisis of 2008.  He is also known for theoretical work that formalizes the so-called debt deleveraging cycle, in joint work with Paul Krugman, and for having proposed the paradox of toil and paradox of flexibility in macroeconomics.  Recent work of his includes mathematical models that formalize the theory of secular stagnation in a series of papers with various co-authors, most notably Lawrence Summers, that popularized the idea in 2013. 

Private life 
Gauti is married to RBC Managing Director and CNBC contributor Helima Croft.  They have 3 sons.  His brother, Dagur B. Eggertsson, is the current mayor of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. 

See also 
 Paradox of flexibility
 Paradox of toil

References

External links 
 Google Scholar
 RePEc
 CV

Gauti Eggertsson
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Gauti Eggertsson
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