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Frederic Stanley "Ric" Mishkin (born January 11 1951) is an economist and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. He took office on September 5, 2006 to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2014.

Early life and family

Mishkin was born in New York City. He attended Fieldston School and received a B.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976), both in economics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1999, he received an honorary professorship from the People's (Renmin) University of China.
Mishkin is married and has two children. His late father, Sidney Mishkin, endowed the Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College of the City University of New York.

Professional career

Mishkin has been a full professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University since 1983. He held the A. Barton Hepburn Professorship of Economics from 1991 to 1999, when he was appointed Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions. He was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (1980 to 2006) and a senior fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Center for Banking Research (2003 to 2006). Dr. Mishkin was also a professor at the University of Chicago (1973-1976), a visiting professor at Northwestern University (1982-1983), and visiting professor at Princeton University (1990-1991).
   Before joining the Board, Mishkin served the Federal Reserve System in several roles. From 1994 to 1997, he was Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an Associate Economist of the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Mishkin was the editor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Economic Policy Review and later served on that journal's editorial board. From 1997 to 2006, he also was an academic consultant to and served on the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Mishkin has been an academic consultant to the Board of Governors and a visiting scholar at the Board's Division of International Finance.
   Mishkin has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, as well as to numerous central banks throughout the world. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board to the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea and an adviser to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Research at the Bank of Korea.
   In 2006, shortly before being appointed to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Mishkin co-authored a report called Financial Stability in Iceland

. The report maintained that Iceland's economic fundamentals were strong. The report was commissioned by the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce in response to critical coverage of the Icelandic economy and certain Icelandic companies in the international business media.

Authorships and publications

Mishkin's research focuses on monetary policy and its impact on financial markets and the aggregate economy. He is the author of more than fifteen books and has published numerous articles in professional journals and books. Mishkin has served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and has been an associate editor at the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is currently an associate editor (member of the editorial board) at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics Abstracts, Journal of International Money and Finance, International Finance, and Finance India.

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