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Michael P. Dooley

Michael P. Dooley is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics and a professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He joined the faculty at UCSC in 1992 following more than 20 years of service at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.

Dooley's research covers a range of issues in open economy macroeconomics, including crises in emerging markets, debt management, capital controls, capital flight, and liberalization of financial markets. He is also managing editor of the International journal of Finance and Economics.

Dooley has been a visiting professor at Bucknell University, George Washington University, the University of Texas, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the IMP Institute, the World Bank Economic Development Institute, and the Kiel Institute of World Economics. He has also served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Bank of Japan.

In his leisure time, Dooley enjoys fishing, golf, and telling stories about his grandsons.

Shane M. Greenstein

Shane M. Greenstein is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Industrial Organization and Productivity. He has been affiliated with the NBER since 1990.

Greenstein received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1989. From 1990 to 1997, he was an assistant and then associate professor with the department of economics and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign. In 1997 he joined the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University as an associate professor. At Kellogg, he teaches in the MBA and Ph.D. programs and is codirector of the new Center for Research in Technology, Innovation, and E-Commerce.

Greenstein's research interests cover a wide variety of topics in the economics of high technology. He has studied buyer benefits from advances in computing and communication technology, structural change in information technology markets, standardization in electronics markets, investment in digital infrastructure at private and public firms, the spread of the commercial Internet business, and government procurement of computing services. Greenstein also regularly writes a column about the...