Acting Associate Professor
Economic Analysis & Policy
About
Martin Beraja is an economist and acting associate professor in the Economic Analysis & Policy Group at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He studies the role of government policy in stabilizing business cycles and responding to the challenges posed by digital and AI technologies, and has tackled these questions by developing theory, using novel data and empirics, and bringing the two together. Read More
Beraja earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2016 and joined MIT in 2017 after spending one year at Princeton University.
Beraja received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2023, the foundation’s most prestigious award for early career faculty.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Economics
- Business Cycles
- Stabilization Policy
- Technology and Governments
- Innovation
- AI and Digital Technologies
- “Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China (opens in a new tab)” with David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman. (2023). Review of Economic Studies, Volume 90, Issue 4, July 2023, Pages 1701–1723.
- “AI-tocracy (opens in a new tab)” with Andrew Kao, David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman. (2023). The Quarterly Journal of Economics (editor’s choice), Volume 138, Issue 3, August 2023, Pages 1349-1402.
- “Inefficient Automation (opens in a new tab)” with Nathan Zorzi. (2024). Review of Economic Studies, Forthcoming.
- “Fast and Slow Technological Transitions (opens in a new tab)” with Rodrigo Adão and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar. (2024). Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics (lead article), Volume 2, Number 2, June 2024, pages 183–227.
- “The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles (opens in a new tab)” with Erik Hurst and Juan Ospina. (2019). Econometrica (lead article), Volume 87, Issue 6, November 2019, Pages 1789-1833.
- “Regional Heterogeneity and the Refinancing Channel of Monetary Policy (opens in a new tab)”with Andreas Fuster, Erik Hurst, and Joseph Vavra. (2019). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 109–183.
Exhaustive list of papers and publications (opens in a new tab)
At Haas since 2025
- Evening MBA 201B, Macroeconomics