Mark Zandi

Mark Zandi is an Iranian American economist and co-founder of Moody's Economy.com, a widely-cited source of economic analysis.^[1]. Moody's Economy.com is part of Moody's Analytics. Prior to founding Economy.com, Zandi was a regional economist at Chase Econometrics.

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia of Iranian descent ^[2] and grew up in Radnor, Pennsylvania. He attended Upper Merion High School where he earned his diploma. Zandi received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.^[3] His surname of "Zandi" comes from the Zand dynasty (formally known as the Zandieh dynasty), which ruled southern and south-central Iran (1750–1794) in the eighteenth century.

Zandi's analysis of the impact of an economic stimulus package on the United States economy was cited by Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein in their report on President Barack Obama's proposed American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.^[4] Zandi uses old-style Keynesian models in the spirit of Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein. The utility of such models to gauge the impact of fiscal stimulus has been questioned by Harvard economist Robert J. Barro.

References

1. ^ Mark Zandi biography
2. ^ Time Magazine
3. ^ Mark Zandi biography
4. ^ Romer, Bernstein report

External links

• Mark Zandi's homepage at Economy.com
• Economy.com, a subsidiary of Moody's Analytics
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Mark Zandi on Charlie Rose
• Mark Zandi at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Mark Zandi in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Review of Zandi's book Financial Shock: A 360° Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis from The New York Review of Books

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