Mark Watson (economist)

{{Short description|American economist and academic}}

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| nationality = American

| institution = Princeton University

| field = Econometrics

| alma_mater = Pierce College
California State University, Northridge
University of California, San Diego

| doctoral_advisor = Robert F. Engle

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Mark W. Watson (born 1952) is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Prior to coming to Princeton in 1995, Watson served on the economics faculty at Harvard University and Northwestern University. His research focuses on time-series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, and macroeconomic forecasting.{{cite web |url= https://bfi.uchicago.edu/scholar/mark-w-watson/ |title=Mark W. Watson |author= |date= |website=Becker Friedman Institute |access-date= 2019-05-06}}

Watson has published widely cited articles in these areas, and is the co-author of Introduction to Econometrics, a leading undergraduate textbook.

He received a B.A. in economics at California State University, Northridge and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, San Diego.{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/ |title=Mark W. Watson |author= |date= |website=Princeton.edu |publisher=Princeton |access-date= 2019-05-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/mwatson|title=Mark Watson|date=2013-09-19|website=Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs|language=en|access-date=2019-05-11}}

He and Tim Bollerslev are widely regarded as carrying forward the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert F. Engle, as acknowledged by Engle himself.[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2003/engle-autobio.html Engle's Autobiography on the Nobel Prize Website].