Markus Konrad Brunnermeier (born March 22, 1969) is an economist, who is the Edwards S.
Sanford Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
He is a faculty member of Princeton's Department of Economics and director of the Bendheim Center for Finance.
His research focuses on international financial markets and the macro economy with special emphasis on bubbles, liquidity, financial crises and monetary policy.
He promoted the concepts of liquidity spirals, CoVaR as co-risk measure, the paradox of prudence, and the I Theory of Money.
He is or was a member of several advisory groups, including to the IMF, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the European Systemic Risk Board, the German Bundesbank and the U.S.