NBER profile: Mark W. Watson.

• Position: Princeton University - Brief article

Mark Watson is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics and a member of the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee. He is also the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Watson did his undergraduate work at Pierce Junior College and California State University at Northridge, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California at San Diego. Before joining Princeton's Economics and Public Affairs Department in 1995, he taught at Harvard University and Northwestern University, and spent one year as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Chicago. He has also served as a consultant for the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and Richmond.

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Watson's research focuses on time-series...