Biographical Information

 

Martin Evans is Professor of Economics in Georgetown’s Department of Economics, and Professor of Finance in the McDonough School of Business. In the past he has held faculty positions at New York University's Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and the University of Michigan.  In addition, he is a Research Economist at The National Bureau of Economic Research, and serves on the editorial board of several academic journals. Between 1995 and 1996 he was the Senior Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. During the 2003-2004 academic year he was a Visiting Fellow in the International Economics Section of the Economics Department at Princeton University.

 

Professor Evans’ main area of expertise is international finance, particularly the behavior of foreign exchange markets. His research focuses on how information about the world economy is transmitted via trading between market participants, and how this information-transmission process is reflected in the behavior of currency prices. This micro-based approach yields new insights into the forces driving exchange rates, insights that are strongly supported by the data. It also has far-reaching implications for international investors, currency-risk management, and central banks.  His research has been published in a large number of leading academic journals and has been the subject of articles in The Economist and other financial publications.