Chris Telmer

MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets

Chris Telmer is an associate professor of financial economics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a research consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Professor Telmer is an associate editor of the European Economic Review and the Journal of Financial Econometrics.

Professor Telmer is a four-time recipient of National Science Foundation research grants.  In 2001 he won the George Leland Bach Award for MBA teaching at Carnegie Mellon. In 1995 he won the Undergraduate Business Teaching Award at Carnegie Mellon.

Labor-market risk and asset pricing, life-cycle economics, exchange rates

- "Asset pricing with idiosyncratic risk and overlapping generations," Review of Economic Dynamics, 2007.
- "Understanding European real exchange rates, "American Economic Review," 2005.
- "Cyclical dynamics in idiosyncratic labor market risk", Journal of Political Economy, June 2004.