Curriculum Vitae / Short Bio
CV:
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Short Bio:
Volker Wieland
is Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at Goethe
University of Frankfurt since November 2000 and Director of the Center
for Financial Studies since April 2003. Prior to coming to
Frankfurt he spent five years as economist and senior economist in
the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal
Reserve Board in Washington, DC. He also served as a consultant
at the European Central Bank from
1999 to 2004.
His educational background includes studies at the University of Wuerzburg, the State University of New York, the Kiel Institute of World Economics
and Stanford University,
where he obtained a Ph.D. in economics. He has also been a visiting
scholar at the Center for European
Integration Studies in Bonn, the Institute for International
Economic Studies in Stockholm and the European
Central Bank. Furthermore, he has taught international finance
as adjunct faculty in the Finance Department of the University of Maryland Business
School in College Park.
His research and teaching interests include
macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy as well as international
finance and trade. His recent
research focusses on the performance of monetary policy rules, optimal
decision-making under uncertainty and learning. He is also interested
in computational methods for solving dynamic programming problems and
models with rational expectations.
Volker Wieland served on the
Advisory Council of the Society for Computational Economics from 1998 to 2006
and coordinated the activities of the society's special interest group
in economic dynamics. He also served as Coordinating Editor of the Journal
of Economic Dynamics and Control
(2002 - 2006), as an Associate Editor of the European Economic Review
(2001 to 2004) and as a Member of the Referee Panel of Economic
Policy(2004 - 2006).
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