Professor Martin Ellison

Martin’s interests include theoretical and applied macroeconomics, with recent papers concentrating on the management of the UK National Debt, the role that leaving the gold standard played in ending the Great Depression, and the economic value of increases in longevity.

Martin gained his PhD in economics from the European University Institute.

Martin is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College. He was previously a Professor at the University of Warwick and Visiting Professor at Keio University, University of British Columbia and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

He has been a consultant at Sveriges Riksbank, European Central Bank, Bank of Finland and Bank of England, and is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He recently finished a term as a member of the Finnish Economic Policy Council.

Martin has published academic papers in American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Nature Aging and other journals