Robert A. Mundell
| Robert Mundell | |
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| Born |
October 24, 1932 Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Institution |
Johns Hopkins University (1959–61, 1997–98, 2000–01) University of Chicago (1965–72) Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland (1965–75) University of Waterloo (1972–74) McGill University (1989–1990) Columbia University (1974 – present) Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009 – present) |
| Field | Monetary economics |
| School or tradition |
Supply-side economics |
| Alma mater |
London School of Economics UBC Vancouver School of Economics University of Washington Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Waterloo |
| Doctoral advisor |
Charles Kindleberger |
| Doctoral students |
Jacob A. Frenkel Rudi Dornbusch Carmen Reinhart |
| Influences | Ludwig Von Mises |
| Influenced |
Arthur Laffer Jude Wanniski Michael Mussa |
| Contributions |
Mundell–Fleming model Optimum currency areas Research on the gold standard |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (1999) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Robert Alexander Mundell, CC (born October 24, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist. Currently, he is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell is known as the "father" of the Euro, as he laid the groundwork for its introduction through this work and helped to start the movement known as supply-side economics. Mundell is also known for the Mundell–Fleming model and Mundell–Tobin effect.
Mundell was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He earned his BA in Economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his MA at the University of Washington in Seattle. After studying at the University of British Columbia and at The London School of Economics in 1956, he then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he obtained his PhD in Economics in 1956. In 2006 Mundell earned an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He was Professor of Economics and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy at the University of Chicago from 1965 to 1972, Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo 1972 to 1974 and since 1974 he was Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He also held the post of Repap Professor of Economics at McGill University.
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