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]

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

Most Cited Works

• 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 Hiro Ito. "What matters for financial development? Capital controls, institutions, and interactions." Journal of development economics 81, no. 1 (2006): 163-192.
• 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 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.
• 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.

References

External links

• econbrowser.com