Profile

Robin Lumsdaine

Professor
Kogod: Finance & Real Estate

  • Robin Lumsdaine recently joined the Kogod School of Business at American University as the Crown Prince of Bahrain Professor of International Finance. She was previously an Associate Director in the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation and Head of the Quantitative Risk Management Group at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Before joining the Board, Professor Lumsdaine was a Director in the Global Markets Research division of Deutsche Bank where she served as the Global Inflation-Linked Bond Strategist. She has also held positions as Professor of Economics at Brown University, Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Assistant Professor at Princeton University.

  • Degrees

    Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, Harvard University; B.S. in mathematics, Brown University

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  • KSB - Finance and Real Estate
  • Kogod - 43
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Teaching

  • Fall 2009

    • HNRS-302 Honors Collqm in Social Sc: Survive the Int'l Finan Crisis
    • Description

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

Professor Lumsdaine's publication credits include a range of economics and finance journals including Econometrica, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, and others.

Media Appearances

Research Interests

International Finance, Econometrics, Banking Regulation, Pensions, ALM, Fixed Income

AU Expert

Area of Expertise: Basel 2, economics, inflation/stagflation, banking, regulation, asset management, risk management, volatility, bond market, retirement income, retirement planning, pensions, fixed income, social insurance, eldercare (caregiving for the elderly), GSEs, inflation-linked bonds (TIPS), emerging markets, finance, financial markets, global markets, econometrics

Additional Information: Robin Lumsdaine recently joined Kogod from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where she was an associate director in the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation. Lumsdaine previously held academic appointments as a professor at Brown University and an assistant professor at Princeton University. Lumsdaine worked as a director for Deutsche Bank, serving first as its global econometric strategist, then head of quantitative flow research, and finally as its global real rates/agency strategist. She has also served as a senior economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers. In addition, she has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a national fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Media Relations
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