July 2001

KENNETH S. ROGOFF

CURRICULUM VITAE (short version)

Economics Department, Littauer Center, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138-3001
(617)-495-4022, FAX: (617)-495-7330, email: krogoff@harvard.edu

webpage: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/rogoff/rogoff.html

Birth date: March 22, 1953

Married to Natasha Lance Rogoff, two children (Gabriel and Juliana)

EDUCATION:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., February 1980 Doctoral Dissertation: Essays on Expectations and Exchange Rate Volatility.

Yale University, B.A./M.A. summa cum laude, Honors in Economics, May 1975.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Professor of Economics, Harvard University, September 1999-

Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University, July 1992 -; Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs, July 1995 - 1999

Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, July 1989 - June 1992.

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 1985 - June 1989.

Economist, International Finance Division, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 1979 - September 1984; Section Chief, Trade and Financial Studies Section, October 1984-January 1985.

Economist, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, October 1982 - September 1983.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001-

John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1998.

Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1991-

German Marshall Foundation Fellow, 1991.

National Fellow, The Hoover Institution, 1986.

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1986.

National Science Fellowship, MIT, 1975-78.

Biographee in Who's Who in America (1971 - )

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1985 - present.

Co-editor, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2000 -

Centre for Economic Policy Research, Scientific Advisory Committee, 2000 -

SUNDRY BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

International Grandmaster of Chess, 1978 - present.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Global Implications of Self-Oriented National Monetary Rules," (with Maurice Obstfeld), forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics.  An earlier version of this paper circulated as "Do We Really Need a New International Monetary Compact?", National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 7864, August 2000.

"Why Not a Global Currency," forthcoming American Economic Review 91, May 2001, 243-47.

"The Six Major Puzzles in International Macroeconomics: Is there a Common Cause?" (with Maurice Obstfeld), in Ben Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff (eds.), NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000 (Cambridge: MIT Press). 339-390. Also NBER Working Paper 7777, July 2000.

"Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability," Journal of Economic Perspectives 13, Fall 1999, 21-42. Also NBER Working paper 7265, July 1999.

"Foreign and Underground Demand for Euro Notes: Blessing or Curse?" Economic Policy 26, April 1998, 263-303.

"The Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle," Journal of Economic Literature 34, June 1996, 647-68.

"The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates," (with Maurice Obstfeld), Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, Fall 1995, 73-96.

"Exchange Rate Dynamics Redux," (with Maurice Obstfeld), Journal of Political Economy 103, June 1995, 624-60.

"Perspectives on PPP and Long-Run Real Exchange Rates," (with Ken Froot), in Handbook of International Economics vol. 3, Gene Grossman and Kenneth Rogoff (eds.), (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1995): 1647-88. NBER Working Paper 4952.

"Equilibrium Political Budget Cycles," American Economic Review 80, March 1990, 21-36.

"A Constant Recontracting Model of Sovereign Debt" (with Jeremy Bulow), The Journal of Political Economy 97 (February 1989), 155-178.

"The Buyback Boondoggle" (with Jeremy Bulow), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: no. 2, 1988, 675-698. "Reputational Constraints on Monetary Policy," in K. Brunner and A. Meltzer (eds.), Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Vol. 26 (Spring 1987). (Supplement to the Journal of Monetary Economics), 141-181.

"Reputational Constraints on Monetary Policy," in K. Brunner and A. Meltzer (eds.), Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Vol. 26 (Spring 1987). (Supplement to the Journal of Monetary Economics), 141-181. Revised and reprinted as "Reputation, Coordination and Monetary Policy" in Robert J. Barro (ed.), Modern Business Cycle Theory (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).

"Ruling Out Divergent Speculative Bubbles" (with Maurice Obstfeld), Journal of Monetary Economics 17 (May 1986), 349-362.

"The Optimal Degree of Commitment to an Intermediate Monetary Target," Quarterly Journal of Economics 100 (November 1985), 1169-1189.

"Can International Monetary Cooperation be Counterproductive?" Journal of International Economics 18 (May 1985), 199-217.

"On the Effects of Sterilized Intervention: An Analysis of Weekly Data," Journal of Monetary Economics 14, (September 1984), 133-150.  

"Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the Seventies: Do They Fit Out of Sample?" (with Richard Meese), Journal of International Economics 14 (February 1983), 3-24.

BOOKS

Foundations of International Macroeconomics (with Maurice Obstfeld). Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, September 1996, 832 pp

Workbook for Foundations of International Macroeconomics (by Maurice Obstfeld, Kenneth Rogoff and Gita Gopinath). Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, February 1998, 129 pp.

Handbook of International Economics, vol. 3, (Gene Grossman and Kenneth Rogoff, editors). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1995. http://mcdougal.elsevier.com:80/