Emi Nakamura

Emi Nakamura is the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles, and macroeconomic measurement. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers. Nakamura holds a PhD from Harvard University and an A.B. from Princeton University. She previously taught at Columbia University before joining UC Berkeley in 2018. Her research areas include Finance, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Theory.

Emi Nakamura is a macroeconomist at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on macroeconomic theory and empirical analysis. Her work explores topics such as monetary non-neutrality, price rigidity, and the Phillips Curve, with an emphasis on understanding the behavior of prices and inflation. Nakamura's research integrates microeconomic evidence with macroeconomic implications, examining issues like menu costs, pass-through mechanisms, and the effects of fiscal and monetary policies. She has also studied the role of information in shaping economic outcomes and the impact of price dispersion during periods of high inflation. Her contributions span both theoretical and applied macroeconomics, with a focus on empirical identification and policy relevance.