Professor
Ben S. Bernanke
Brookings Institution
Economist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
2001
A leading macroeconomist who glides easily between the worlds of theory and application. His work on the Great Depression helped spawn the so-called credit view of how monetary policy works. His development of structural VARs both pushed the methodological envelope and contributed valuable new empirical results.