December 23, 2011

BA in Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1986.

PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990.

1998 Paul A. Samuelson Certificate of Excellence for Research on Lifetime Financial Security

Recipient, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1997

Marquis Who’s Who, 2004-

Who’s Who in Economics, 2004-

• Keynote Address at 7th CSEF-IGIER Symposium on Economics and Institutions, Capri Italy: “Macrofoundations of Microeconomics”
• Keynote Address at Assessing Fiscal Stimulus, University of Copenhagen
• Keynote Address at Conference on the Chinese Economy, Shanghai China, Dec-15: “When, Why, and How Will the High Chinese Saving Rate Fall?”
• Keynote Address at Inflation and the Media, Swiss Economic Institute (Zurich Switzerland): “Sticky Expectations and Macro Puzzles”
• Public Lecture at Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco conference on The Outlook for Consumption, San Francisco: “The American Consumer: Reforming, or Just Resting?”
• Public Lecture at Goethe University/Deutsche Bank Public Lecture Series on Economic Inequality, 2008-06: “Why Do the Rich Save So Much?” – (Other lecturers in the series: Peter Diamond, Richard Blundell, Tony Atkinson, Costas Meghir, and Roland Benabou)
• Keynote Address, Koc University Economic Research Forum Conference, Istanbul
• Public Lecture, Hooker Lecture, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, 2005-10

• Co-organizer, NBER/CRIW research volume on “Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures” (with John Sabelhaus of the Federal Reserve and Thomas Crossley of Cambridge University (UK)) (Conference date: 2011-12-02/03; publication expected in 2013)
• Incoming representative for American Statistical Association on the board of directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research (5-year term beginning late 2011)
• Service on NSF-Census Research Network selection panel for location of new Census research nodes (Google “NSF-Census Research Network nsf 10621”), 2011-05
• Co-organizer, Berkeley Electronic Journal of Macroeconomics conference “Empirical Macroeconomics Using Geographical Data” at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2011-03
• American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Editor Selection Committee, 2011-Spring
• Testimony to Committee on National Statistics Panel on redesign of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (2011-02)
• Plenary Panel Discussant, Conference on Economic Analysis of Risk, Denver Colorado, 2011-01
• Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Washington DC
• Co-organizer, NBER/Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW) joint conference on “Improving the Measurement of Household Expenditures in the United States” (Cambridge, MA; 2009-07)
• Mini-course in Consumption Theory at IMF Institute (2006-04; 2004-10)
• Member of Scientific Review Panel for the Health and Retirement Survey, 2006
• Congressional Budget Office External Review Panel, 2005
• Co-organizer, NBER Monetary Economics Meeting, Spring 2000, Spring 2004
• Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, Fall 1999
• Visiting Scholar, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe NM, Summer 1999, Summer 2000
• Co-Chair of NBER Research Group on Consumption, 1995-present
• Stints as Associate Editor, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics
• Member of Macroeconomics Advisory Panel to Panel Study on Income Dynamics 1997-98
• Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, April/May 1997

Member, Undergraduate Ethics Board (1998-2001)

Member, Department of Economics Computer Committee (1996-)

JHU Economics PhD Placement Director, 2002-2011

Dissertation Committees

• ASSA Meetings, San Francisco
• Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• CFAP Housing Finance Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge England
• Seminar, Department of Economics, Brandeis University
• NBER Macroeconomics Annual Conference, Cambridge MA
• Housing, Financial Assets, and the Economy conference at LSE, London
• San Francisco Fed conference on “The Outlook for Consumption,”
• Discussed Paper by Nick Souleles et al at ASSA meetings
• Seminar, Dept of Economics, University of Nottingham
• Seminar, Bank of England, London
• Seminar, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London
• Seminar, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy
• NBER Summer Institute EFACR Conference (co-organizer; Cambridge, MA)
• Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• European Central Bank/Goethe University Conference on Wealth Surveys (Frankfurt)
• Brookings Panel on Economic Activity (Washington DC)
• Federal Reserve Conference on the Housing Market (Washington DC)
• Seminar, Reserve Bank of Australia
• Seminar, University of Paris I, Paris France
• Seminar, Federal Reserve Board
• Discussed Paper by Eric French and Maria Cristina DiNardi at Penn IGIER Conference, Philadelphia PA
• Participated in Panel on New Directions for the Survey of Consumer Finances, Federal Reserve Board, Washington DC
• Discussed Paper by Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mulainattan at National Poverty Center conference at Georgetown University, Washington DC
• Visiting Scholar, Reserve Bank of Australia (Sydney)
• Discussed Paper, Reserve Bank of Australia Conference on “Stability of the World Financial System” in Sydney Australia
• Seminar, Emory University, Atlanta GA
• Paper Discussion, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Conference on Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
• Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (until 09-2006)
• Seminars While In Australia: UNSW (Sydney); Monash University (Melbourne); LaTrobe University (Melbourne); University of Sydney (Sydney)
• Seminar, University of Vienna, Austria
• Seminar, Goethe University, Frankfurt Germany
• Present Paper, Conference on “Computation in Economics and Finance,” in Cyprus
• Discuss Paper, National Poverty Institute, Washington DC
• Discuss Paper at National Poverty Center Conference, Washington DC
• Mini-Course On Consumption Theory, IMF, Washington DC
• Conference Presentation, “What Can We Learn From Individual Expectations Of Economic Variables?” Ramon Areces Foundation, Madrid Spain
• Discuss Paper, ASSA meetings, Boston MA
• Seminar Presentation, Wharton School, Philadelphia PA
• Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
• Seminar, University of Pittsburgh
• Hooker Lectures, McMaster University, Canada
• Review Panel, Health and Retirement Study, Washington DC
• Conference Presentation, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings, Budapest Hungary
• Conference Presentation, International Seminar on Macroeconomics, Budapest Hungary
• Conference Presentation, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Denmark
• Seminar, Deutsche Institute fur Wirtscaftsforsung, Berlin Germany
• Conference, European University Institute, Florence Italy
• Discussant, Paper at ASSA Meetings
• National Poverty Center Workshop, Washington DC
• Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund
• Seminar, Brown University
• Presentation at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) conference
• Co-organizer, NBER Monetary Economics conference, Cambridge MA
• Visiting Professor (1 week), Central European University, Budapest Hungary
• Seminar, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington DC
• Conference Presentation at CFS conference“Contracts and Institutions in Models with Heterogeneous Agents,” Frankfurt Germany
• Seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
• Seminar, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Seminar, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
• Seminar, State University of New York, Buffalo
• Seminar, University of Maryland School of Business
• Discussant, 2 Papers at ASSA Meetings, San Diego CA
• Seminar, Ente Luigi Einaudi, Rome Italy
• Session Chair, Survey of Consumer Finances Conference, Federal Reserve Board
• Visiting Scholar, European University Institute, Florence Italy (through 11-2002)
• Seminar, North Carolina State University
• Federal Reserve Board, Washington DC (visiting scholar); RAND Institute on Aging (Santa Monica, CA); NBER Summer Institute (Cambridge, MA)
• Presentation at Society for Computational Economics meetings Aix-en-Provence
• Presentation at Conference on New Directions in Macroeomicncos at the Central European University, Budapest
• Presentation at Workshop On Economics of Interacting Heterogeneous Agents, in Trieste
• Visiting Professor, University of Cyprus
• Seminar at New York University
• Seminar at Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Seminar at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Permanent Shocks”
• Discussion at Wharton Portfolios Conference of “Luxury Goods and the Equity Premium”
• Seminar at Harvard University Department of Economics, “The Epidemiology of Macroeconomic Expectations”
• Discussion of “Rational Inattention” by Christopher Sims at NBER EFG Meeting in Stanford.
• Seminar at the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, the Brookings Institution, “The Epidemiology of Macroeconomic Expectations”
• Seminar at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “A Theory of the Consumption Function”
• Presentation at AEA Meetings, “What Do Portfolios of the Rich Tell Us About Entrepreneurial Behavior?”
• Lecture at the Santa Fe Institute, “Rationality, Expectations, and Macroeconomics”
• Seminar at University of Chicago Macroeconomics Seminar, “Individual Learning About Consumption”
• Seminar at Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico, “Risky Habits …”
• Discussion at AEA meetings of “How Important Are Idiosyncratic Shocks” by Storesletten, Telmer, and Yaron
• International Monetary Fund macroeconomics seminar, “Risky Habits …”
• University of Michigan macroeconomics seminar, “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume out of Permanent Income”
• University of Michigan, Center on the Economics of Aging, Visiting Scholar
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Public Finance Conference, Cambridge MA, Paper Discussant
• Brown University macroeconomics seminar, “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume out of Permanent Income”
• University of Virginia macroeconomics seminar, “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume out of Permanent Income”
• NBER Japan Group meeting in Tokyo, “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume out of Permanent Income”
• Conference on Research on Income and Wealth, conference on the uses of scanner data, Washington DC, invited attendee
• NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth conference in Cambridge, MA paper discussant
• Co-chaired meeting of NBER Consumption Research Group in Cambridge, MA, 7/24 to 7/28; presented “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume out of Permanent Income”
• Society for Computational Economics annual meeting, in Barcelona, presented “Requiem for the Represenatitve Consumer? Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior”
• Santa Fe Institute, Visiting Scholar 6/17/2000-7/1/2000
• University of Cyprus, Koc University in Istanbul, presented “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Permanent Income”
• Office of Tax Policy Research/Brookings conference in Washington DC, invited attendee
• NBER Monetary Economics conference, co-organized with Steve Ceccetti
• Harvard University macroeconomics seminar, presented “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out Of Permanent Income”
• American Economic Association meetings, presented “Requiem for the Representative Consumer? Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior” as an invited paper, to be published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review
• European University Institute, Florence, Italy, conference on household portfolios, presented “Portfolios of the Rich”
• International Economic Journal annual conference, Seoul South Korea, presented “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out Of Permanent Income”; same paper presented at the macroeconomics seminar at Tokyo University in Japan, and at the Bank of Japan
• Center for Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings Institution, presented “Risky Habits and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out Of Permanent Income”
• MIT Public Finance/Labor seminar, presented “Unemployment Risk and Precautionary Wealth: Evidence from Households’ Balance Sheets”
• TMR Conference in Venice, Italy, presented “When and Why Do Liquidity Constraints Induce Precautionary Saving?”
• Santa Fe Institute, Visiting Scholar, 8/1-8/31; presented “Learning About Consumption”
• Co-Chaired NBER Research Group on Consumption, 7/19-7/23
• NBER Monetary Economics Meeting, Cambridge MA, 4/22
• Paper Discussant, “Consumption Insurance and Consumption Mobility?” CentER for Economic Research, TMR Meeting, Tilburg, the Netherlands
• Paper Discussant, NBER Japan Group Meeting, Stanford, CA
• Panel Moderator, American Enterprise Institute conference; panel title “What is Horizontal Equity?”, Washington DC
• Presented “Death to the Log-Linearized Consumption Euler Equation” at American Economic Association meetings, New York city; also discussed the paper “Impatience” by Robert J. Barro