Michael Woodford — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Awarded the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (2024)
Recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2024)
Professor of Economics at Columbia University
Authored 'Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy', a standard reference for monetary theory
Developed microfounded New Keynesian macroeconomic models
Holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT (1983) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (1980)

Biography

Michael Dean Woodford (born 1955) is an American macroeconomist and monetary theorist who currently teaches at Columbia University. He holds the John Bates Clark chair at Columbia, returning to the institution in 2004 after teaching at Chicago and Princeton.

Woodford earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago (1977), a J.D. from Yale Law School (1980), and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT (1983). His early research was supported by a John D. and Catherine T.