Matthew B. Canzoneri
Professor of Economics

· Email Address: canzonem@georgetown.edu

Biographical Sketch:
Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota 1975
B.S. in Mathematics, Stanford University, 1967

Matthew B. Canzoneri has been a Professor of Economics at Georgetown University since 1985. He was Chair of the Economics Department from 1991 to 1994. He has served on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as a consultant at the International Monetary Fund, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Spain. 

Professor Canzoneri has published extensively on monetary policy and on the coordination of policy between countries.  He has also testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy on the implications of European monetary integration for U.S. economic interests, and before the U.K. House of Lords Select Committe on Economic Affairs on the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy.

Full Resume

Selected Recent and Hard to Find Research Papers:

The Cost of Nominal Inertia in NNS Models, (with R. Cumby and B. Diba), forthcoming in JMCB.

Euler Equations and Money Market Interest Rates: A Challenge for Monetary Policy Models, (with R. Cumby and B. Diba), forthcoming in JME.

Monetary Aggregates and Liquidity in a Neo-Wicksellian Framework, (with R. Cumby and B. Diba), 2007.

Interest Rate Rules and Price Determinacy: the Role of    Transactions Services of Bonds,” (with B. Diba), Journal of Monetary Economics, March, 2005.   Three Appendices.

Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination when Bonds Provide Transactions Services, (with R. Cumby, B. Diba and D. Lopez-Salido), August, 2006.  Appendix.

New Keynesian Explanations of Cyclical Movements in Aggregate Inflation and Regional Inflation Differentials,” (with R. Cumby, B. Diba and O. Mykhaylova), June, 2005.

Price and Wage Inflation Targeting: Variations on a Theme by     Erceg, Henderson and Levin, (with R. Cumby and B. Diba) eds. Models and Monetary Policy: Research in the Tradition of Dale Henderson, Richard Porter, and Peter Tinsley, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2005.

Should the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Be Concerned About Fiscal Policy? (with R. Cumby and  B. Diba), in the FRBKC’s Rethinking Stabilization Policy, August 2002.

Pedagogical Papers on NNS Models:

Recent Developments in the Macroeconomic Stabilization     Literature: Is Price Stability a Good Stabilization Strategy? (with R. Cumby and B. Diba) in Altug, S., J. Chadha, C. Nolan (eds.), Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003). 

Derivations to Accompany: Recent Developments in the Macro-  economic Stabilization Literature, July 31, 2002.

Notes on: Monopolistic Competition and Nominal Inertia, (with R. Cumby and B. Diba), July 31, 2002.

Notes on Models with Calvo Price and Wage Setting, (with R. Cumby and B. Diba), May 2004.

Papers for Various Courses:

Able and Bernanke, "Rules vs Discretion"

Chinn, "Twin Deficits…"

Krugman, "Currency Crises"

Obstfeld, "Models of Currency Crises"

Fischer, "Exchange Rate Regimes"

Canzoneri, Current Account Lectures

Canzoneri, Financial Crisis Lectures

Course Materials at Georgetown:

· Econ-244: International Finance Reading List

· Econ-244: Exercises

· Econ-244: Midterm Exam

· Econ-244: Old Final Exam

· Econ-543: International Finance Reading List

· Econ-543: Exercises

· Econ-543: Old Final Exam

· Econ-607: Macroeconomics III Reading List

· Econ-607: Class Handouts

· Econ-607: Exercises

· Econ-607: Exercises Answers

To Contact Me:

    E-Mail:  canzonem@georgetown.edu

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         Professor Matthew B. Canzoneri
         Economics Department, ICC
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057-1036

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         department fax: 202-687-6102
         department administrator:  202-687-5830

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