Michael Woodford

Columbia University and CEPR

Michael Woodford has been the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University since 2004, after previous appointments at Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Princeton 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 M.I.T. He has been a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.), and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). In 2007 he was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. He is the author of Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy, recipient of the 2003 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics, and co-author or co-editor of several other volumes, including North-Holland’s three-volume Handbook of Macroeconomics (with John B. Taylor) and The Inflation Targeting Debate (with Ben S. Bernanke).