Christopher Phelan

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Economics, University of Chicago, 1990
• A.M.: Economics, University of Chicago, 1987
• A.B.: Economics and Computer Science (summa cum laude), Duke University, 1984

Specialties

• Macroeconomic theory
• Incentives
• Inequality
• Game theory

Publications

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Publications

• V. V. Chari, Rishabh Kirpalani (forthcoming). The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate versus Targeted Isolation Policies during Pandemics. Review of Economic Dynamics.
• Manuel Amador (2021). Reputation and Sovereign Default. Econometrica, 89(4), 1979-2010.
• On the Social Usefulness of Fractional Reserve Banking: V. V. Chari, Phelan, Christopher, Journal of Monetary Economics, 65, 1-13, 2014.
• The 'Banks' We Do Need: V. V. Chari, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Phelan, Christopher, Economic Policy Paper, 2013.
• Pareto Efficiency and Identity: Aldo Rustichini, Phelan, Christopher, Theoretical Economics, 13:3, 979-1007, 2018.
• Speculative Runs on Interest Rate Pegs: Marco Bassetto, Phelan, Christopher, Journal of Monetary Economics, 73, 99-114, 2015.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• Chair: Department of Economics. 2012 - present
• Director of Graduate Studies: Department of Economics. 2009 - 2012
• Advisor: Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. August 2007 - Present
• Professor: Department of Economics. 2007 - present
• Senior Economist, Research Department,: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. August 2001 - August 2007
• Adjunct Professor: Department of Economics. Fall 1999 - June 2007
• Economist, Research Department,: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. August 1998 - 2000
• Teaching Fellow: University of Chicago. 1998 -
• Associate Professor, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences: Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. August 1997 - August 1999
• Assistant Professor, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences: Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. July 1994 - August 1997
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics: New York University. Summer 1991 -
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics: University of Wisconsin-Madison. September 1990 - July1994

Awards

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Awards

• Fellow, Econometric Society, 2015
• Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2014

Courses

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Courses

• Econ 1102: Principles of Macroeconomics
• Econ 8102: Microeconomic Theory
• Econ 8802: Public Economics
• Econ 4161: Microeconomic Analysis
• Econ 8391/8392: Workshop in Growth and Development
• Econ 2020: Economics of COVID-19