NBER Profile: Eric M. Leeper.

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Eric Leeper has been an NBER Research Associate in the Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth since 2005. He is also a professor of economics and the director of the Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research at Indiana University, a distinguished visiting professor of business and economics at Monash University, and an external advisor to the Swedish central bank (Sveriges Riksbank).

Leeper received a B.S. in economics from George Mason University in 1980 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1989. Prior to joining the Indiana University faculty in 1995, he was a research officer in the macro policy group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and spent four years as a staff economist in the...