Gadi Barlevy
Executive Vice President and Director of Research
About
Gadi Barlevy is executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He leads the department that conducts research on macroeconomics, microeconomics, regional economics, financial economics and financial markets that provides analytic support for monetary policymaking. His portfolio includes research, policy analysis, and public engagement efforts.
Barlevy joined the bank as a senior economist and economic advisor in 2003, after working as an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University. His research has spanned a variety of areas including business cycle fluctuations, economic growth, information economics, labor economics, and asset bubbles. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Review of Economic Dynamics, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Applied Probability. He also has a book on asset bubbles published by MIT Press.
Barlevy previously served as co-editor at Theoretical Economics and the Review of Economic Dynamics, and as an associate editor at Theoretical Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the European Economic Review. He was also a visiting faculty at Tel Aviv University, the Kellogg School of Management, and the University of Wisconsin School of Business.
Barlevy received a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
