NBER profile: Charles W. Calomiris.

Charles W. Calomiris is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy and the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. He is also a Professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

In 1995, Calomiris was named a University Scholar at the University of Illinois, where he served as Associate Professor of Finance and Co-Director of the Office for Banking Research. He also has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University's economics department and at the finance department of the Wharton School of Finance.

Calomiris received a B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1985. Currently, he teaches courses on corporate finance, emerging financial markets, corporate governance, and international banking at the MBA and Ph.D. levels at Columbia. His research spans several areas, including banking, corporate finance, financial history, and monetary economics.

In 1999 and 2000, Calomiris served on the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, a Congressional commission to advise the U.S. government on the reform of the...