NYT: Obama Picks Michigan Professor for Fed Board
Obama Picks Michigan Professor for Fed Board
WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Monday that he would nominate Kathryn M. Dominguez, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, to a seat on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.
Well I got nothing. Except to note that Ann Arbor is not on ANY large body of water whether Freshwater OR Saltwater. So who is Prof. Dominguez? And what does this appointment indicate for Obama policy preferences going forward?
Can’t say this illuminates much. Impressive though.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kathrynd/
Kathryn Dominguez is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests include topics in international financial markets and macroeconomics. She has written numerous articles on foreign exchange rate behavior and is author of Exchange Rate Efficiency and the Behavior of International Asset Markets and Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work? (with Jeff Frankel).
Prior to coming to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Economics Department at the University of Michigan, she taught at the Kennedy School of Government. She has also taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the London School of Economics, and the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and worked as a research consultant for the Federal Reserve System, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. At the Ford School, Kathryn teaches finance, macroeconomics and international economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.
Well I once saw prof Dominguez at the NBER 1050 Mass Ave standing on ultra salty Larry Katz’s back*, so I consider her salt water.
*this was not uh Germanic discipline, she said it would make his bad back less painful and it did.
Robert I guess my question is not so much about Prof. D’s history of standing on Katz back but of the likelihood she will have Yellen’s back.
Pres. Obama would never nominate or appoint anyone to any governmental position that did not agree completely with his
agenda. This is all you need to know about Prof. D.
@Eric – since I have no clue as to what President Obama’s agenda is your cryptic comment was not helpful. Have a nice day.