NBER Profile: Frederic S. Mishkin.

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Frederic S. Mishkin is a Research Associate in the NBER Programs in Monetary Economics and Economic Fluctuations and Growth and the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. Since receiving his Ph.D. from MIT in 1976, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Princeton University, and Columbia. He also has received an honorary professorship from the Peoples (Renmin) University of China. From 1994 to 1997, he was Executive Vice President and Director of Re-search at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an associate economist of the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System.

Mishkin's research focuses on monetary policy and its impact on financial markets and the aggregate economy. He is the author of more than ten books, including The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 6th Edition (Addison Wesley Longman, 2001), the number one selling textbook in its field. He has also published over one hundred articles in professional journals...