Richard Clarida
| Richard Clarida | |
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| Born | May 18, 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution | Columbia University |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
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Harvard University University of Illinois |
Richard Clarida (born May 18, 1957) is an American economist, C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Global Strategic Advisor for PIMCO. He is notable for his contributions to models. He is a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and is a recipient of the Treasury Medal.
Since 1988, Clarida has instructed students in Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University, where he is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics. From 1997 until 2001, Clarida served as chairman of the Department of Economics at Columbia University. Earlier in his career, he had been a member of the Cowles Foundation at Yale University.
Clarida's research centers on modeling, a branch of applied general equilibrium theory that is influential in contemporary macroeconomics optimal monetary policy, especially through the lens of time series analysis. His studies with Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler suggest that monetary policy in many countries today resembles a forward looking Taylor rule, whereas the policy makers of the 1970s failed to follow such a forward looking Taylor rule.
Clarida has published numerous frequently cited articles in leading academic journals on monetary policy, exchange rates, interest rates, and international capital flows. He is frequently invited to present his research to the world's leading central banks, including the Federal Reserve, the ECB, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan. Recently, he has written on the monetary policy implications of the low-inflation period created by the 2008 financial crisis.
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