Menzie D. Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. His research examines macroeconomic interactions between countries using econometric methods. Recent work focuses on how debt and fiscal policy affect interest rates, and the interaction between capital controls and financial development. Previous research has analyzed the determinants of exchange rate behavior among developed countries, with an emphasis on the role of productivity differentials. He has published in the Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Oxford Economic Papers, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and Review of International Economics.

In 2000-2001, Professor Chinn served as Senior Staff Economist for International Finance on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. He is currently a Research Fellow in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Board.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003, Professor Chinn taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his AB from Harvard University.