Jeremy Chaim Stein (born October 17, 1960) is an American macroeconomist and the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at

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; he also chaired Harvard's economics department. He served as a member of the

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from 2012 to 2014. Stein works as an investment industry consultant and served as president of the

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in 2008.

Early life and education

Stein was born to a secular

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family, the son of mathematician

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and Elly Intrator.University of St Andrews, Scotland - School of Mathematics and Statistics: "Elias Menachem Stein" by J.J. O'Connor and E F Robertson
February 2010 Both his parents were Jewish refugees during

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who immigrated to the United States. He graduated

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with an A.B. in economics from

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in 1983 after completing a 118-page senior thesis titled "Pseudo-Securities: An Analysis of Financially Hedged Positions." While at Princeton, he was co-captain of the men's gymnastics team, specializing in rings. In 1986, he earned a PhD in economics from

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. His 1998 paper "Risk management, capital budgeting, and capital structure policy for financial institutions: an integrated approach" with Kenneth A. Froot won the

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Career

After serving a one-year internship at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., he became an assistant professor of finance at the

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from 1987-1990, and finance faculty of MIT’s Sloan School of Management for ten years after that. Stein rejoined Harvard in 2000. Stein received the Fama-DFA Prize, which is an annual prize given to authors with the best capital markets and asset pricing research papers published in the

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for 2002. He designed quantitative asset-management strategies for

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from 2005 to 2007, was also a senior adviser to the Treasury secretary and was on the staff at the National Economic Council in 2009.

Federal Reserve Board

On December 27, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that he planned to nominate Stein to fill one of the two vacancies on the seven-member Federal Reserve Board. Stein's nomination was filibustered by Republicans in the United States Senate. On May 15, 2012, Senate Majority Leader

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motioned to invoke

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and break the filibuster on both the nominations of Stein and of Powell. On May 17, 2012, a Senate floor vote was held on Stein's nomination with a required 60-vote threshold for confirmation. Senators voted 70-24 to confirm Stein. On April 3, 2014, Stein announced that he would resign his position at the Federal Reserve and return to Harvard in May.

After the Fed

In addition to the post at Harvard, in March 2015, Stein began working as a consultant for

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.Stevenson, Alexandra
"Former Fed Board Member to Advise Hedge Fund"
New York ''Times'', March 23, 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-24.

Research

Stein's research covers subjects including behavioral finance and market efficiency; corporate investment and financing decisions; risk management; capital allocation inside firms; banking; financial regulation; and monetary policy. Stein worked as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Personal life

Stein is married with three children and lives in Boston. His daughter Carolyn is an economist at the

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. He is a registered Democrat.

References

External links

Statements and Speeches of Jeremy C. Stein
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