Professor of Economics
Mark Gersovitz was educated at McGill (B.A.) and Yale (Ph.D., economics). Among other positions, he was Senior Research Scientist at Princeton and Professor of Economics at Michigan, Ann Arbor before Hopkins. He has been advisor to the World Bank, the IMF, the UN, the Asian Development Bank and other governmental institutions and traveled professionally throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He researches the economics of poor countries including: debt repudiation, expropriation; savings; public finance; agriculture and commodity markets; internal migration; health economics and the epidemiology of infectious diseases; political violence including austerity and commodity price riots and civil war.
Current Interests: Political violence, Foreign investors, Internal migration.