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.

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