Brief biography

Professor Michael Bordo will be visiting the Reserve Bank in 2009 as Professorial Fellow in Monetary and Financial Economics. In 2006-2007 he was Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University.

Michael Bordo is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.  He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in the United States, and has spent time as a Visiting Scholar, Professor or Consultant at the IMF, the World Bank, central banks and distinguished universities both in the USA where he now lives and around the world. 

Professor Bordo's primary research interests are in monetary and financial history.  In recent years he has written on current and historical topics in financial stability and financial crises, monetary policy and central banking, exchange rate regimes, and globalisation.

Professor Bordo's web page is available here.