Allan H. Meltzer

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The Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy

Teaching and Research Interests:

• The history of U.S. monetary policy, size of government, macroeconomics, international financial reform. Founder and chairman of the Shadow Open Market Committee. Has served as a consultant on economic policy for the Congress, U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, the World Bank and the U.S. and foreign governments. Chairman, International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, U.S. Congress, 1999-2000.

Website and/or personal homepage:
http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/gsia/meltzer

Useful Links:

• Professional Biography
• Why Capitalism
• Regulatory Reform and the Federal Reserve

Published Papers: 

• Blueprint for an International Lender of Last Resort
  Journal of Monetary Economics 50, 2003.
  (With: Adam Lerrick)
  
  
• Grants: A Better to Deliver Aid
  Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, 2002.
  (With: Adam Lerrick)
  
  
• Report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission.
  
  

Working Papers: 

• End of the 'American Century'
  May, 2008.
  
  

Publications: 

• A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2, 1951-1986, University of Chicago Press, (January, 2009).
  
  
• A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1, 1913-1951, University of Chicago Press, (January, 2002).
  
  
• Money and Income: Issues in Monetary Analysis, Cambridge University Press, (January, 1992).
  (With: K. Brunner)
  
  
• Political Economy, Oxford University Press, (January, 1991).
  (With: A. CukiermanS. Richard)
  
  
• "Money Supply Theory"
  in B. Friedman and F. Hahn (ed.) Handbook of Monetary Economics, North Holland, (January, 1991).
  (With: K. Brunner)
  
  
• Keynes's Monetary Theory: A Different Interpretation, Cambridge University Press, (January, 1988).
  
  

Awards:

• Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association - 2002
• Lifetime Achievement, Money Marketeers, NYU - 1997
• Man of the Year in Finance, Pittsburgh - 1995
• Distinguished Professional Achievement, UCLA - 1983
• Fellow, National Association of Business Economists

Boards:

• Stillhalter Vision AG
• Sarah Scaife Foundation
• President's Council of Economic Advisors, 1988-1989
• Honorary Advisor, Bank of Japan, 1986-2002
• Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, 1980-98

Consulting:

• The World Bank
• Various Central Banks

Other Professional Activities:

• Economic Advisory Panel to the Congressional Budget Office (1995-2009)
• Economic Advisory to Federal Reserve Bank, New York (2009)

Courses Taught:

• Capitalism (45-854)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 3 (Section: A)