Law & Economics
Portrait of Ben Bernanke
Scholar portraitSource: Brookings Institution

Bernanke

Ben S. Bernanke

Economist of banking, financial crises, and monetary policy

bankingfinancial crisesfinancial regulation

Official Source Note

Brookings lists Bernanke as a distinguished fellow in Economic Studies and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. His profile notes his service as chair of the Federal Reserve and his 2022 Nobel recognition for research on banks and financial crises.

Bernanke is included because his scholarship and public role connect banking, credit intermediation, crisis propagation, and the institutional design of central-bank responses.

Source: Brookings Institution

Relevance to the Archive

Bernanke helps connect financial law to bank intermediation, crisis propagation, lender-of-last-resort policy, and the institutional role of central banks.

Representative Contributions

  • Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression (1983)
  • The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression (1995)
  • The Courage to Act (2015)

Works Included Here