Maurice Moses "Maury" Obstfeld (born March 19, 1952) is a professor of

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and previously

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at the

International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster globa ...

. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the

Peterson Institute for International Economics The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), known until 2006 as the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981 and has been led by ...

. He is well known for his work in

international economics International economics is concerned with the effects upon economic activity from international differences in productive resources and consumer preferences and the international institutions that affect them. It seeks to explain the patterns and ...

and his research on the

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. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to

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. He graduated from

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''summa cum laude'',

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

and

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

, where received his Ph.D. in 1979. Director of the Center for International and Development Economic Research (CIDER). He joined Berkeley in 1989 as a professor, following appointments at Columbia (1979–1986) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986–1989). He was also a visiting professor at Harvard between 1989 and 1991. Obstfeld serves as honorary advisor to the

Bank of Japan The is the central bank of Japan.Louis Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005). "Nihon Ginkō" in The bank is often called for short. It has its headquarters in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo. History Like most modern Japanese instituti ...

's Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies. Among Obstfeld's honors are the Carroll Round Keynote Lecture, Woodward Lecture, and Bernhard Harms Prize and Lecture in 2004. Obstfeld is a Fellow of the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...

and the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

. He is active as a research Fellow of CEPR, a research associate at

NBER The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...

, and an International Research Fellow at the

Kiel Institute for the World Economy The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Institut für Weltwirtschaft, or IfW) is an independent, non-profit economic research institute and think tank based in Kiel, Germany. In 2017, it was ranked as one of the top 50 most influential think ta ...

. On June 3, 2014, the White House announced that Obstfeld would join the

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as lead macroeconomist. On July 20, 2015,

Christine Lagarde Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (; née Lallouette, ; born 1 January 1956) is a French politician and lawyer who has been serving as President of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th managing director of the ...

, Managing Director of the

(IMF), announced her intention to appoint Obstfeld as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Research Department. Obstfeld succeeds

Olivier Blanchard Olivier Jean Blanchard (; born December 27, 1948) is a French economist and professor who is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from September 1, 2 ...

whose retirement was announced previously. He began his work at the Fund on September 8, 2015.

Research

Books and selected publications

* "Economic Policy for a Pandemic Age: How the World Must Prepare" with Monica de Bolle and

Adam S. Posen Adam Simon Posen (born 1966) is an American economist and President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He became President of the Peterson Institute on January 1, 2013, having first joined PIIE in July 1997. Life and caree ...

, April 2021 * "How the G20 Can Hasten Recovery from COVID-19" with

, April 2020 * "Meeting Globalization's Challenges" with Luís A. V. Catão, 2019 * "Advancing the Frontiers of Monetary Policy" with Tobias Adrian and

Douglas Laxton Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals *Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking *Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil W ...

, 2018 * "Coping with the Climate Crisis" with Rabah Arezki and Patrick Bolton and Karim El Aynaoui, 2018 * "International Economics: Theory and Policy" with

Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, Krugman was th ...

and

Marc Melitz Marc J. Melitz (born January 1, 1968) is an American economist. He is currently a professor of economics at Harvard University. Melitz has published a number of highly cited articles in the area of international economics and international trad ...

, 2018 * "Global Economic Crisis" with Dongchul Cho and

Andrew Mason Andrew D. Mason (born 1981) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Groupon, a Chicago-based website offering users discounts on local businesses and scholarships. He is also the founder and CEO of Desc ...

, 2012 * "Too Much Focus on the Yuan?" (with Alan J. Auerbach), October 2010 * "Lenders of Last Resort and Global Liquidity: Rethinking the System," Development Outreach (

World Bank Institute The World Bank Institute is the capacity building branch of the World Bank. It provides learning programs, policy advice and technical assistance to policy makers, government and non-government agencies, and development practitioners of developing c ...

), December 2009 * "Global Capital Markets" with

Alan M. Taylor Alan M. Taylor (born 15 November 1964) is the C. Bryan Cameron Chair in International Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of California, Davis. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau ...

, 2004 * Money, Capital Mobility, and Trade: Essays in Honor of

Robert Mundell Robert Alexander Mundell (October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) was a Canadian economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences i ...

, with

Guillermo Calvo Guillermo Antonio Calvo (born 1941) is an Argentine-American economist who is director of Columbia University's mid-career Program in Economic Policy Management in their School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He published significant ...

and

Rudi Dornbusch Rüdiger Dornbusch (June 8, 1942 – July 25, 2002) was a German economist who worked in the United States for most of his career. Early life and education Dornbusch was born in Krefeld in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia. After completing his ...

, 2001 * Globalization and Macroeconomics, Fall 2000 * International Economics: Theory and Policy, with

and

* Foundations of International Macroeconomics, with

Kenneth Rogoff Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster. He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University. Early life Rogoff grew up in Rochester, New York. ...

References

External links

Maurice Obstfeld/Site

* ttp://elsa.berkeley.edu/~obstfeld/ Professional page
Curriculum Vitae
{{DEFAULTSORT:Obstfeld, Maurice 1952 births 20th-century American economists 21st-century American economists Alumni of King's College, Cambridge American officials of the United Nations Columbia University faculty Economists from New York (state) Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Econometric Society International economists International Monetary Fund people Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni United States Council of Economic Advisers University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty University of Pennsylvania alumni Writers from New York City