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Ellen E. Meade
Associate Professor of Economics
Roper 223
Tel: (202) 885-3997
Fax: (202) 885-3790
Ellen Meade's email
Other Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, The Netherlands Bank, 2008
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2008
External Expert, Bank for International Settlements, 2007-08
BA, Economics, Duke University
Education
PhD, Economics, Princeton University
MA, Economics, Princeton University
BA, Economics, Duke University
Teaching
Macroeconomics (introductory, intermediate,
advanced)
European Union and EMU
Research Interests
Monetary Policy and Central Banking
Exchange Rates
Political Economy
Previous Employment
Guest Scholar, Economics Studies, Brookings Institution, 2004
– 2005.
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE,
2001 – 2004.
Senior Economist and Economist, Division of International Finance,
Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1984 – 1994, 1995 –
1999.
Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, 1994 – 1995.
Other Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2004-05.
Associate Fellow, Chatham House, 2003 – present.
Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Summer
2003.
Visiting Researcher, American Institute for Contemporary German
Studies, Summer 2002.
Taught courses at Universite Catholique de Louvain, Syracuse University,
Georgetown University, University of Maryland and at central banks
in Syria and Bosnia.
Referee for:
American Economic Review, Cambridge University Press, Contemporary Policy Issues, Economic Journal, Economica, European Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of Business and Economics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Leverhulme Trust Foundation, Review of International Economics.
Recent Publications
- “Federal Reserve Transcript Publication and Regional Representation” Contemporary Economic Policy, forthcoming.
- “Central Bank Independence and Transparency: Evolution and Effectiveness” with Chris Crowe, European Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming 2008).
- “Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve” with David Stasavage (2008), Economic Journal 118:528, pp. 695-717.
- Regional Monetary Integration (2008) with Peter B. Kenen, New York: Cambridge University Press.
- “The Evolution of Central Bank Governance Around the World” with Christopher Crowe (2007), Journal of Economic Perspectives 21:4, pp. 69-90.
- “Two Effects of Transparency on the Quality of Deliberation,” with David Stasavage (2006), Swiss Political Science Review 12:3, pp. 123-133.
- “Regional Influences on FOMC Voting Patterns” with
D. Nathan Sheets (2005), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
37:4, pp. 661-678. (Working paper version was subject of Economics
focus column “No place like home?” in The Economist,
March 2002).
- “The FOMC: Preferences, Voting, and Consensus”
(2005), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 87:2, pp. 93-101.
- “Central Banks and Supreme Courts” with Charles
A. E. Goodhart (2004), Moneda y Crédito 218, pp. 11-42.
- “Substance and semantics in ERM II” with Peter B.
Kenen (2004), Central Banking XIV:4, pp. 61-69.
- “The Maastricht criteria and the accession countries:
what is equal treatment?” with Peter B. Kenen (2004), Central
Banking XIV:3, pp. 54-62.
- "EU Accession and the Euro: Close Together or Far Apart?”
with Peter B. Kenen (2003), Policy Brief 03-9, Institute for International
Economics. Reprinted in R. Pringle and N. Carver (eds.), EU Enlargement
and the Future of the Euro (2004), London: Central Banking Publications.
- “Central Banks in Currency Unions: The Design of the European
Central Bank” (2003) in M. Dumoulin and G. Duchenne (eds.),
L’Union européenne et les États-Unis: Actes
de la VIII Chaire Glaverbel d’études européennes
2002-2003, P.I.E.-Peter Lang.
- “A (Critical) Appraisal of the ECB’s Voting Reform”
(2003), Intereconomics – Review of European Economic Policy
38:3, pp. 129-131.
- “Home Bias, Transactions Costs, and Prospects for the
Euro” with Catherine L. Mann (2003) in W.C. Hunter, G.G.
Kaufman, and M. Pomerleano (eds.), Asset Price Bubbles: The Implications
for Monetary, Regulatory, and International Policies, Cambridge:
MIT Press.
- “To Peg or Not To Peg” (2002), CentrePiece 7:3,
pp. 28-32.
- “Exchange Rate Arrangements in EU Accession Countries:
What Are the Options?” with Nikolas Müller-Plantenberg
and Massimiliano Pisani (2002), Centre of Economic Performance
Occasional Paper #17.
- “How
Independent Is The ECB?” (2002), Project Syndicate.
Work in Progress
- “The Phillips Curve and US Monetary Policy: What the FOMC Transcripts Tell Us” with Dan Thornton.
“Women’s Work in the AER Papers and Proceedings: Evidence on Women’s Changing Participation in Central Economics Discourse” with Martha Starr.
- “Interest Rate Persistence” with Maria Heracleous.
- “Explaining the Dynamic Voting Patterns of the Bank of England’s MPC” with Jan Marc Berk and Beata Bierut.
- Disagreement, Regional
Representation, and Federal Reserve Transcript Publication (PDF)
- Central Bank Independence
and Transparency: Evolution and Effectiveness (PDF)
- Regional Monetary Integration:
Prospects and Their Implications for the United States with Peter
B. Kenen for Cambridge University Press.
- Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from
the US Federal Reserve with David Stasavage, revised April 2006.
- Use of the Taylor Rule in Monetary Policy Decisions: Evidence
from the FOMC Transcripts with Dan Thornton.
- Central Bank Governance: What Is It and Does It Matter? with
Christopher Crowe.
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