Business Cycle Dating Committee Members

Victor Zarnowitz, a member of the committee since its creation in 1978, passed away on February 21, 2009. Dr. Zarnowitz was a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow and Economic Counselor to The Conference Board in New York City, and Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago. For more information see this link.

Christina Romer left the committee for government service in November 2008; Martin Feldstein assumed a new seat on the committee as President Emeritus of the NBER, and James Poterba joined the committee when he became NBER's President, in July 2008. David Romer, whose wife Christina Romer is the current Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, took leave from the Committee in August 2009 and he does not participate in its deliberations.

On September 1, 2009, James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson, who are Research Associates in the NBER's Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics Programs, joined the Business Cycle Dating Committee. Stock is also the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and Watson is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.