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Ronald Rosenfeld Professor: Dr. Abel

A. Abel

Dr. Andrew B. Abel has been named the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor was effective July 1, 2003. A member of Wharton's faculty since 1986, he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors and the Long-Term Modeling Group of the Congressional Budget Office. He has been on the economics faculty of the University of Chicago and Harvard, and has been a visiting faculty member of the economics departments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv University.

 Dr. Abel's major fields of interest are macroeconomics, monetary economics, and asset pricing.  He has published articles on monetary policy, the effects of taxes on capital formation, and the effects of social security on individual portfolios and national saving. His textbook, Macroeconomics, co-authored with Dr. Ben Bernanke of Princeton, is widely used at colleges and universities. He is a member of the American Economic Association and a fellow of the Econometric Society.  He received an A.B. in economics summa cum laude from Princeton and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.

The Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professorship was established in 1986 by Mr. Rosenfeld, W '61.

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 27, March 30, 2004

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