Menzie Chinn
American economist
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Menzie David Chinn (born 1961) is a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,[1] 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.[2]
Menzie David Chinn | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
| Spouse | Laura Schwendinger |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard College University of California at Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Website | |
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.[2] He contributes to an economics blog at econbrowser.com which has been highly ranked by traffic amongst economics blogs,[3][4][5] and is frequently interviewed by economics journalists.[6]
Works
By citation, Chinn is ranked among the top 500 authors of economic journals[7] and ranked 521 in terms of downloads on the Social Science Research Network.[8] He has written extensively on international economics, trade and exchange rates.[9]
He describes his teaching material as "the (old) neoclassical synthesis, i.e., Keynesian short run plus Classical long run — and some New Keynesian"[10]
- Lost Decades (with Jeffrey Frieden), W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
- International Economics (with Douglas Irwin), Cambridge University Press, 2025
Most Cited Works
- Chinn, Menzie D., and Hiro Ito. "What matters for financial development? Capital controls, institutions, and interactions." Journal of development economics 81, no. 1 (2006): 163–192.
- Chinn, Menzie D., and Hiro Ito. "A new measure of financial openness." Journal of comparative policy analysis 10, no. 3 (2008): 309–322.
- Chinn, Menzie D., and Eswar S. Prasad. "Medium-term determinants of current accounts in industrial and developing countries: an empirical exploration." Journal of International Economics 59, no. 1 (2003): 47–76.* Cheung, Yin-Wong, Menzie D. Chinn, and Antonio Garcia Pascual. "Empirical exchange rate models of the nineties: Are any fit to survive?." Journal of international money and finance 24, no. 7 (2005): 1150–1175.
- Chinn, Menzie D., and Robert W. Fairlie. "The determinants of the global digital divide: a cross-country analysis of computer and internet penetration." Oxford Economic Papers 59, no. 1 (2007): 16–44.
- Chinn, Menzie, and Jeffrey A. Frankel. "Will the euro eventually surpass the dollar as leading international reserve currency?." In G7 Current account imbalances: sustainability and adjustment, pp. 283-338. University of Chicago Press, 2007.