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Janet Yellen Janet Yellen

Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
and Professor, Department of Economics
1-510-643-1397
Academic Status: Emeritus
Office Hours: By appointment only, F673
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Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/eap/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

BA, economics, Brown University
Ph.D., economics, Yale University

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 1980
2004- present, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1997 - 99 Chair, President's Council of Economic Advisors
1994 - 97 Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
1985 - present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1982 - 85 Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1980 - 82 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1978 - 80 Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science
1977 - 78 Economist, Division of International Finance, Trade and Financial Studies Section, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
1971 - 76 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
1974 Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

External Service and Assignments

  • President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001
  • Vice President, Western Economics Association, 2001
  • Fellow, Yale Corporation 2000-
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on Ensuring the Best Presidential Science and Technology Appointments, 2000
  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999-
  • Advisory Board, Center for International Political Economy, 1999-
  • Advisory Board, Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, 1999
  • Chair: Economic Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 1997-1999
  • President's Interagency Committee on Women's Business Enterprise (1997)
  • Member and adviser: Brookings Panel on Economic Activity (senior advisor); Advisor Panel in Economics, National Science Foundation;
  • Advisor: Congressional Budget Office
  • Research fellow: Yale University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Unemployment and labor markets
  • Monetary and fiscal policies
  • International trade and investment policy

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "The Fabulous Decade: macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990's" (with Alan Binder), The Century Foundation Press, New York, 2001
  • "Trends in Income Inequality and Policy Responses," Looking Ahead, October 1997 and James Auerbach and Richard Belous, eds., "The Inequality Paradox: Growth of Income Disparity," National Policy Association, 1998
  • "The Continuing Importance of Trade Liberalization," Business Economics (1998).
  • "Monetary Policy: Goals and Strategy," Business Economics (July 1996).
  • "An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States," (with George Akerlof and Michael Katz). Journal of Economics (May 1996).
  • "East Germany In From the Cold: The Economic Aftermath of Currency Union" (with George Akerlof, Andrew Rose, and Helga Hessenius), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1991:1.
  • "How Large are the Losses from Rule of Thumb Behavior in Models of the Business Cycle?" (with George Akerlof) in Willima Brainard, William Nordhaus, and Harold Watts, eds. Money, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of James Tobin, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (1991).

 

Teaching

  • MBA201B-1A: Macroeconomics in the Global Economy, Spring 2003

 

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001
  • Fellow, Yale Corporation, 2000-
  • Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Bard College, May 2000
  • Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, Brown University, 1998
  • Maria and Sidney Rolfe Award for National Economic Service, Women's Economic Roundtable, 1997
  • Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University, 1997
  • Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1967
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1986-1987
  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Evening MBA Program), 1988
  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (MBA Program), 1985
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