Economist Alan M. Taylor Will Join SIPA Faculty in January 2024

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The distinguished economist Alan M. Taylor, known for scholarly work across a range of topics including international economics, macroeconomics, finance, and economic history, will join SIPA as a professor of international and public affairs in January 2024.

Taylor, who is the C. Bryan Cameron Chair in International Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of California, Davis, is currently a visiting professor at SIPA. When he returns in 2024 he will also direct the MIA-MPA concentration in International Finance and Economic Policy.

“I’m pleased that Professor Alan M. Taylor will join the SIPA faculty as a full professor,” said Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo. “He is a globally renowned economist known both for his scholarly achievement and his extensive work in both policymaking and banking, including service as an adviser to financial institutions around the world. I’m confident he will bring innovative ideas to the IFEP concentration and provide intellectual leadership to the School’s work on the global challenge of inclusive prosperity and macroeconomic stability.” 

Taylor’s scholarship is highlighted by the quantitative study of areas including credit booms and financial crises, the “trilemma” (a term he helped coin) of international macroeconomics, the determinants of exchange rates, and the economic history of Argentina. He also helped advance the unique methodological approach known as local projection techniques, which is now being widely adopted in the field of macroeconomics and beyond.

Taylor is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow of the London-based Center for Economic Policy Research, and currently serves as a coeditor of the Journal of International Economics.

Taylor has written or edited 10 books — including the widely used textbook International Economics (Worth), coauthored with Robert Feenstra — and more than 80 journal articles. He earned his PhD in economics at Harvard University.