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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 232-240

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From page 232...
... He joined the Federal Reserve in 1997 and became vice chairman in 1999. He was a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, served as chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, and chaired Fed committees on banking supervision and regulation, payment system policy, and reserve bank oversight.
From page 233...
... . He has taught courses in economic demography, population theory, population and economic development, demographic forecasting, population aging, indirect estimation, and research design, as well as a number of proseminars.
From page 234...
... He has authored numerous articles, books, and reviews, was formerly editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and is the founding editor of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. He holds a B.A.
From page 235...
... Her recent work explores implications of increasing international economic integration as well as determinants of economic growth in industrial and developing countries. She has coauthored studies comparing growth experiences in China and India and examining challenges to growth in Puerto Rico.
From page 236...
... Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, professor of insurance/risk management and business economics/ policy, and the executive director of the Pension Research Council, all at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She also directs the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research, is a fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and the Leonard Davis Institute, and sits on the board of the Population Aging Research Center at the University.
From page 237...
... She was a member of the board of Alexander and Alexander Services, Inc.; the National Academy of Social Insurance board; and the executive committee for the American Economic Association. She also cochaired the Technical Panel on Trends in Retirement Income and Saving for the Social Security Advisory Council and was a board member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession as well as the Government Accountability Office Advisory Board.
From page 238...
... He is also president of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. He is the president-elect of the Eastern Economic Association, the past president of the National Tax Association, a former vice president of the American Economic Association, and a former director of the American Finance Association.
From page 239...
... His work now focuses on issues related to population aging, and he directs a large project on the economics of aging and health care at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His recent books and papers include Social Security and Retirement Around the World; Frontiers in the Economics of Aging; Facing the Age Wave; Inquiries in the Economics of Aging; Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Micro-Estimation; The Transition to Personal Accounts and Increasing Retirement Wealth: Macro and Micro Evidence; Aging and Housing Equity: Another Look; Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving; The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap; Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts; and Analyses in the Economics of Aging.


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