Menzie Chinn


Menzie David Chinn is a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research International Finance and Macroeconomics Program.

Education and career

Chinn received a BA from Harvard College in 1984, a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, and was a senior economist with the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2000 to 2001. He contributes to an economics blog at econbrowser.com which has been highly ranked by traffic amongst economics blogs, and is frequently interviewed by economics journalists.

Works

By citation, Chinn is ranked among the top 500 authors of economic journals and ranked 521 in terms of downloads on the Social Science Research Network. He has written extensively on international economics, trade and exchange rates.
He describes his teaching material as "the neoclassical synthesis, i.e., Keynesian short run plus Classical long run — and some New Keynesian"