V. V. Chari is currently the Paul W. Frenzel Land Grant Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. He has been a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota since 1994 and is a former chair of the Department of Economics there. Chari has been an advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis since 1994, where previously he was also a senior research officer.
Chari received his Ph.D from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980. His research focuses on banking, fiscal, and monetary policy and issues of economic development.
Chari serves in many capacities for various organizations, including serving on the board of editors of the Journal of Economic Theory, Macrodynamics, the Review of Economic Dynamics, Econometrica, and the Journal of Economic Literature. In 1998, he was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society.
Recent Work/Updates
Revised May 2009 - Staff Report 419
October 2008 - Working Paper 666
Revised October 2008 - Working Paper 659
September 2008 - Working Paper 673
August 2008 - Staff Report 409
Published In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2009, pp. 242-266)
Additional Files
July 2008 - Working Paper 664
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