NBER profile: Michael Woodford.

Michael Woodford is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics and the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT.

Woodford began his academic career at Columbia in 1984 and moved to the University of Chicago in 1986. He became a full professor at Chicago in 1992. In 1995, Woodford left for Princeton, where he served as the Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking until 2004. He has been at Columbia since 2004.

Woodford has been a Visiting Professor in universities throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. He is a Consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and also has served as a Consultant to the European Central Bank and the Banco Central do Brasil, and as Professorial Fellow in residence at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. He...