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Menzie Chinn. La Follette School photo by Bob Rashid taken Feb. 2, 2005

Menzie Chinn

Professor of Public Affairs and Economics

Office: 7418 Sewell Social Sciences Building
Phone: 608-262-7397
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Department of Economics
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Menzie Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics. His research examines the empirical and policy aspects of macroeconomic interactions between countries. Recent work focuses on whether the euro will surpass the dollar as a reserve currency, the determinants of the trade deficit, how government debt and fiscal policy affect interest rates, and the interaction between capital controls and financial development. Previous research has analyzed the determinants of exchange rate behavior among developed countries, with an emphasis on the role of productivity differentials. He has published in the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and Review of International Economics. With Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii, he is the author of The Economic Integration of Greater China: Real and Financial Linkages and the Prospects for Currency Union (Hong Kong University Press, 2007).

In 2000-2001, Professor Chinn served as Senior Staff Economist for International Finance on the Council of Economic Advisers. He is a Research Associate in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Fellow of University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the World Affairs and the Global Economy, and on the advisory council of the Institute for International Economics. He has been visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Board.

His work has been cited in The Economist, Financial Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and he has been interviewed on CNBC.

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.


Curriculum vitae

Current Account Sustainability of Major Industrialized Countries

Weblog on current macroeconomic issues, www.econbrowser.com

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