Professional Services

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

Guest Scholar, Economics Studies, Brookings Institution, 2004 – 2005

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, 2001 – 2004

Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, 1994 – 1995

Senior Economist and Economist, Division of International Finance, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1984 – 1994 and 1995 – 1999

TEACHING:

Macroeconomics (introductory, intermediate, advanced)

European Union and EMU; Regional Monetary Integration

Professor Meade has taught courses at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Syracuse University, Georgetown University, the University of Maryland, and at the central banks in Syria and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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

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.

Research Interests

Monetary Policy and Central Banking

Exchange Rates

Political Economy

Selected Publications

• “Federal Reserve Transcript Publication and Regional Representation” (forthcoming), Contemporary Economic Policy.
• "Central Bank Independence and Transparency: Evolution and Effectiveness” (2008), European Journal of Political Economy 24:4, 763-777 (with Christopher Crowe).
• “Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve” (2008), Economic Journal 118:528, 695-717 (with David Stasavage).
• Regional Monetary Integration (2008), New York: Cambridge University Press (with Peter B. Kenen).
• “The Evolution of Central Bank Governance Around the World” (2007), Journal of Economic Perspectives 21:4, 69-90 (with Christopher Crowe).
• “Two Effects of Transparency on the Quality of Deliberation” (2006), Swiss Political Science Review 12:3, 123-133 (with David Stasavage).
• "Regional Influences on FOMC Voting Patterns" (2005), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 37:4, 661-678 (with D. Nathan Sheets).
• "The FOMC: Preferences, Voting, and Consensus" (2005), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 87:2, 93-101.
• "Central Banks and Supreme Courts" (2004), Moneda y Credito 218, 11-42 (with Charles A. E. Goodhart).