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

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...

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 un ...

and previously Chief Economist 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 glo ...

. 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 b ...

. He is well known for his work in international economics 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

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

''summa cum laude'',

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

'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

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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, a ...

. He is active as a research Fellow of CEPR, a research associate at NBER, and an International Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. 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, 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 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, April 2021 * "How the G20 Can Hasten Recovery from COVID-19" with Adam S. Posen, April 2020 * "Meeting Globalization's Challenges" with Luís A. V. Catão, 2019 * "Advancing the Frontiers of Monetary Policy" with

Tobias Adrian Tobias Adrian (born 23 July 1971) is a German and American economist who has been Financial Counsellor of the International Monetary Fund and Head of their Monetary and Capital Markets Department since 2017. He was previously employed at the Fed ...

and Douglas Laxton, 2018 * "Coping with the Climate Crisis" with Rabah Arezki and

Patrick Bolton Patrick Bolton (born June 11, 1957, Dublin, Ireland) is the Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia Business School (2005-present) and a Visiting Professor of Finance at Imperial College London (2018-present). He is a past ...

and

Karim El Aynaoui Kareem (alternatively spelled Karim or Kerim) ( ar, کریم) is a common given name and surname of Arabic origin that means "generous", "noble", "honorable". It is also one of the Names of God in Islam in the Quran. Given name Karim * Karim Abd ...

, 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 t ...

and Marc Melitz, 2018 * "Global Economic Crisis" with Dongchul Cho and Andrew Mason, 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 (

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), December 2009 * "Global Capital Markets" with Alan M. Taylor, 2004 * Money, Capital Mobility, and Trade: Essays in Honor of Robert Mundell, 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 significa ...

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

and Marc Melitz * Foundations of International Macroeconomics, with Kenneth Rogoff

References

External links

Maurice Obstfeld/Site

* ttp://elsa.berkeley.edu/~obstfeld/ Professional page
Curriculum Vitae
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