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).