Carl F. Christ Emeritus Professor of Economics Office: Mergenthaler Hall 454 Phone: (410) 516-7604 Fax: (410) 516-7600 E-mail: Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Carl F. Christ was educated at the University of Chicago. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics and a Ph.D. in economics. Before switching to economics, he worked as a physicist on the Manhattan Project, and taught physics at Princeton for a year.

He has taught economics at Johns Hopkins, at the University of Chicago, and again 1961-2005 at Johns Hopkins, where he has served as Department Chair.

He has been a visiting teacher and/or researcher at Cambridge University, the University of Tokyo, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the University of Essex (England), the Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar, the Brazil Econometric Society, the Bank of Japan, and the Chinese Universities Development Project II at Fudan University Shanghai.

He is the author of three books and the editor of one. He has over 40 articles in journals and books, and over 60 other publications.

His major research interests are econometric methods (especially the testing and evaluation of econometric models), monetary and fiscal policy (especially the government budget restraint), and the history of econometrics.

He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Statistical Association. He has received the George Owen Teaching Award at Johns Hopkins, and a Professional Achievement Citation from the University of Chicago Alumni Association. He has served on the governing boards of the Econometric Society and the American Economic Association, and on advisory boards of panels of the American Economic review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Carnegie - Rochester Conference on Economic Policy, the Johns Hopkins University Press, and the National Science Foundation. He was a member of the Board of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1975 to 2002.

Professor Christ and his wife have three children, who have collectively three Bachelor’s degrees, two M.A.’s, one Ph.D., and five children of their own. He and his wife enjoy family, friends, theater, travel, and windsurfing.