{{short description|American economist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}} {{Infobox economist | name = Menzie David Chinn | school_tradition = | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}} | birth_place = Washington | death_date = | spouse = Laura Schwendinger | death_place = | institution = University of Wisconsin–Madison | field = Economics | alma_mater = Harvard College<br>University of California at Berkeley | contributions = | awards = | website = https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mchinn/ | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = pch129 }}

'''Menzie David Chinn''' (born 1961) is a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.econ.wisc.edu/faculty.html |title=Department of Economics&nbsp;— Faculty Directory |publisher=Econ.wisc.edu |date=October 10, 2011 |accessdate=October 15, 2011}}</ref> co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research International Finance and Macroeconomics Program.<ref name=NBER>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nber.org/reporter/spring03/profiles.html|title=NBER Profile: Menzie Chinn|website=www.nber.org|access-date=2019-05-28}}</ref>

==Education and career== Chinn received a BA from Harvard College in 1984, a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, and was a senior economist with the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2000 to 2001.{{r|NBER}} He contributes to an economics blog at ''econbrowser.com'' which has been highly ranked by traffic amongst economics blogs,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gongol.com/lists/bizeconsites/ |title=EconDirectory |publisher=Gongol.com |accessdate=October 15, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bayesianheresy.blogspot.com/2008/01/bh-economics-blog-awards-2008.html |title=The Bayesian Heresy: BH Economics Blog Awards 2008 |publisher=Bayesianheresy.blogspot.com |date=January 4, 2008 |accessdate=October 15, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.econolog.net/stats.php?area=blogs |title=The Palgrave Econolog&nbsp;— Zeitgeist |publisher=Econolog.net |accessdate=October 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120729143849/http://www.econolog.net/stats.php?area=blogs |archivedate=July 29, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and is frequently interviewed by economics journalists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mchinn/cv.html|title=Menzie Chinn's cv page|website=www.ssc.wisc.edu|access-date=2019-05-28}}</ref>

==Works== By citation, Chinn is ranked among the top 500 authors of economic journals<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html |title=Economist Rankings at IDEAS |publisher=Ideas.repec.org |accessdate=October 15, 2011}}</ref> and ranked 521 in terms of downloads on the Social Science Research Network.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=15131 |title=SSRN Author Page for Menzie David Chinn |publisher=Papers.ssrn.com |accessdate=October 15, 2011}}</ref> He has written extensively on international economics, trade and exchange rates.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ideas.repec.org/e/pch129.html |title=Menzie Chinn at IDEAS |publisher=Ideas.repec.org |accessdate=October 15, 2011}}</ref>

He describes his teaching material as "the (old) neoclassical synthesis, i.e., Keynesian short run plus Classical long run — and some New Keynesian"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/12/keynesian-cassandras-the-sequester-re-assessed|title=Keynesian Cassandras? The Sequester Re-Assessed {{!}} Econbrowser|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-28}}</ref>

*''Lost Decades'' (with Jeffrey Frieden), W. W. Norton & Company, 2011 *''International Economics'' (with Douglas Irwin), Cambridge University Press, 2025

===Most Cited Works=== * * Chinn, Menzie D., and Hiro Ito. "What matters for financial development? Capital controls, institutions, and interactions." Journal of development economics 81, no. 1 (2006): 163–192. * Chinn, Menzie D., and Hiro Ito. "A new measure of financial openness." Journal of comparative policy analysis 10, no. 3 (2008): 309–322. * Chinn, Menzie D., and Eswar S. Prasad. "Medium-term determinants of current accounts in industrial and developing countries: an empirical exploration." Journal of International Economics 59, no. 1 (2003): 47–76.* Cheung, Yin-Wong, Menzie D. Chinn, and Antonio Garcia Pascual. "Empirical exchange rate models of the nineties: Are any fit to survive?." Journal of international money and finance 24, no. 7 (2005): 1150–1175. * Chinn, Menzie D., and Robert W. Fairlie. "The determinants of the global digital divide: a cross-country analysis of computer and internet penetration." Oxford Economic Papers 59, no. 1 (2007): 16–44. * Chinn, Menzie, and Jeffrey A. Frankel. "Will the euro eventually surpass the dollar as leading international reserve currency?." In G7 Current account imbalances: sustainability and adjustment, pp. 283-338. University of Chicago Press, 2007. ==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.econbrowser.com econbrowser.com]

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