Christopher J Phelan

Contact Me

cphelan@umn.edu
612-625-6353

Economics
4-101 HMH

1925 4th Street South

Affiliations

• Economics
• Liberal Arts

Links

• Personal Web Site

Educational Background & Specialties

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

Courses Taught

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

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Chair: Department of Economics , 2012 - present
• Director of Graduate Studies: Department of Economics , 2009 - 2012
• Professor: Department of Economics , 2007 - present
• Advisor: Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis , August 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
• 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
• Teaching Fellow: University of Chicago , 1998

Publications

• Pareto Efficiency and Identity: Phelan, Christopher, Aldo Rustichini, Theoretical Economics, 13:3 979-1007, 2018.
• Speculative Runs on Interest Rate Pegs: Phelan, Christopher, Marco Bassetto, Journal of Monetary Economics, 73 99-114, 2015.
• On the Social Usefulness of Fractional Reserve Banking: Phelan, Christopher, V. V. Chari, Journal of Monetary Economics, 65 1-13, 2014.
• The 'Banks' We Do Need: Phelan, Christopher, V. V. Chari, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Economic Policy Paper, 2013.

Awards

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