nationality article_title field institution birth_date repec_prefix repec_id name alma_mater
american lawrence j. christiano
 macroeconomics northwestern university 22 january 1952 e pch45 lawrence j. christiano columbia university london school of economics university of minnesota
lawrence j. christiano

lawrence joseph christiano -lrb- born january 22 , 1952 -rrb- is an american economist and researcher .
he is the alfred w. chase chair in business institutions and a professor of economics at northwestern university .
he has also taught at carnegie mellon university and the university of chicago .
he received his b.a. in history and economics and m.a. in economics at the university of minnesota .
he went on to earn his m.sc .
in econometrics and mathematical economics at the london school of economics and his ph.d. at columbia university .
christiano 's research has focused on macroeconomic theory , policy , and econometrics .
specifically , he has been concerned with how the government 's monetary and fiscal instruments ought to respond to shocks over the business cycle .
this research has two parts ; one involves formulating and estimating an empirically plausible model of the macroeconomy , and the second involves developing economic concepts and computational methods for determining optimal policy in an equilibrium model .
he has received numerous grants from the national science foundation and is an associate editor of the `` journal of money , credit and banking '' .
christiano 's work has been published in numerous journals , including the `` journal of economic theory '' , the `` american economic review '' , and the `` review of economics and statistics '' .
in addition to his work for the federal reserve bank of minneapolis , he has served as a research consultant for the fed 's board of governors and the federal reserve banks of cleveland , chicago , and atlanta .
he has served as a visiting scholar at the international monetary fund and european central bank .
