CONTRIBUTOR:

Menzie D. Chinn

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.

INSTITUTION:

University of Wisconsin-Madison

BIOGRAPHY:

Menzie D. Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. His research is focused on international finance and macroeconomics. He is currently a Research Fellow in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance. In 2000-2001, Professor Chinn served as Senior Staff Economist for International Finance on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank. With Jeffry Frieden, he is coauthor of Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011, W.W. Norton). He is also a contributor to Econbrowser, a weblog on macroeconomic issues. Prior to his appointment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003, Professor Chinn taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.