NBER profile: Alan M. Taylor.

• Position: Research associate - Brief Article - Biography

Alan M. Taylor is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on the Development of the American Economy, International Finance and Macroeconomics, and International Trade and Investment. He is also a Professor of Economics and a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Davis, and the Director of the Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

For his dissertation, Taylor was awarded the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize by the Economic History Association. For their work on global capital markets, he and Maurice Obstfeld were awarded the 1997 Sanwa Prize in International Economics and Financial Markets. Taylor has served as a consultant or visitor with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the...