Menzie Chinn
Position title: Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
Email: mchinn@lafollette.wisc.edu
Phone: (608)262-7397
Address:
7470 Social Science Building
Menzie D. Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. He is a co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance.
In 2000-2001, Professor Chinn served as Senior Staff Economist for International Finance on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is currently a Research Associate in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Board, the European Central Bank, and the Banque de France.
He is coauthor with Doug Irwin of International Economics (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), with Jeffry Frieden of Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011, W.W. Norton), and contributor to Econbrowser, a weblog devoted to current macroeconomic issues.
Prior to his appointment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003, Professor Chinn taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his AB from Harvard University.