Jón Steinsson

Jón Steinsson is a Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His main area of research is empirical macroeconomics. His work has focused on characterizing price rigidity and its macroeconomic consequences, identifying the effects of monetary and fiscal policies, and understanding the effects of forward guidance on the economy, among other topics. He is co-director for the Monetary Economics program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Associate Editor for Econometrica and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.