Erik Hurst Joins Macroeconomics Annual Editorial Team.

• Position: NBER News

Erik Hurst, who is the V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the deputy director of the Becker Friedman Institute, will be a co-organizer and co-editor of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual beginning in 2019. Hurst is a wide-ranging applied macroeconomist whose work has touched on labor markets, household finance, and household financial behavior. His research has been recognized with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Prize for Research on Lifetime Financial Security. He is a past co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

An NBER affiliate since 2003, Hurst is a research associate in the Economic Fluctuations and...