Dan Bernhardt

{{Short description|American-Canadian economist}}

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Mark Daniel Bernhardt (born June 11, 1958) is an American-Canadian economist, focusing in industrial organization, finance and political economy, currently the IBE Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of Illinois.{{Cite web |url=http://www.economics.illinois.edu/people/danber/ |title=Dan Bernhardt |publisher=illinois.edu |accessdate=May 13, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mdbernhardt/dan_cv.pdf |title=CV |publisher=warwick.ac.uk |accessdate=May 13, 2017}} Bernhardt is also a professor at the University of Warwick.

Bernhardt attended Oberlin College. He graduated in 1981 with a degree in economics and mathematics, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now the Tepper School of Business) in 1986 and was awarded the Alexander Henderson Award for an outstanding thesis in economic theory.{{Cite web |url=http://www.economics.illinois.edu/people/danber/ |title=Dan Bernhardt |publisher=illinois.edu |accessdate=Jan 4, 2021}}

Prior to being a professor at the University of Illinois, Bernhardt was a professor at Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario. He has also worked at the University of Rochester and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.{{Cite web |url=http://www.economics.illinois.edu/people/danber/ |title=Dan Bernhardt |publisher=illinois.edu |accessdate=Jan 4, 2021}}