Nathan Balke

Professor 2007 Dedman Family Distinguished Professor

Economics

Email

nbalke@smu.edu

Office Location

Umphrey Lee 301L

Phone

214-768-2693

Website

http://faculty.smu.edu/nbalke/BalkeWebpageindex.htm

Education

Ph.D. Northwestern University

About

Dr. Nathan Balke's research areas are in macroeconomics and applied time series analysis.  Much of his current research examines linkage between financial markets, credit frictions and macroeconomic activity.  He is also interested in the determinants of oil price movements and their effect on economic activity.

Dr. Balke is currently Interim Dean of Dedman College.  He has also served as Economics Department Chairman from 2000-2006 and 2010-2013 and was a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1994-2023.

Research

Macroeconomics, Time Series Analysis

Publications

Teaching

Macroeconomics (undergraduate and PhD)


Nathan Balke portrait