“Conversation with the Dean” lecture series featuring Professor Martin Eichenbaum

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’s “Conversation with the Dean” is a faculty speaker series designed to deliver insights into the cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The series is offered live to Weinberg College leadership society donors with a real-time Q&A. Learn more about the leadership giving society here. The series is available to all Weinberg College alumni in the days following the event.

Professor Martin Eichenbaum, professor of economics and co-director of Northwestern’s Center for International Economics and Development, and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss pandemic economics, the tradeoffs between the severity of the recession we face, the health consequences of the pandemic, and “smart containment.”

Watch the conversation below:

Professor Martin Eichenbaum is the Charles Moskos Professor in the department of economics, co-director of the department’s Center for International Economics and Development, fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-editor of the American Economic Review. He also has served as an advisor to several Federal Reserve Banks and to the IMF. Eichenbaum’s research focuses on understanding aggregate economic fluctuations. He is currently studying the causes and consequences of exchange rate fluctuations, as well as the effect of monetary policy on postwar United States business cycles. Learn more about Professor Martin Eichenbaum’s research here.

Dean Adrian Randolph is dean of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Henry Wade Rogers Professor of the Humanities. Dean Randolph’s research focuses on the art and architecture of the medieval Renaissance Italy. He joined Northwestern in 2015 from Dartmouth College. There, he served as the associate dean of the faculty for the Arts and Humanities, chair of the Department of Art History, and director of the college’s Leslie Center for the Humanities.