George Kaufman

About

George G. Kaufman is the John F. Smith Professor of Economics and Finance at Loyola University Chicago and a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. From 1959 to 1970, he was at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and after teaching for ten years at the University of Oregon, he returned as a consultant to the Bank in 1981. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Southern California, as well as a visiting scholar at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He has served as the deputy to the assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He is co-editor of the Journal of Financial Stability; a founding co-editor of the Journal of Financial Services Research; past president of the Western Finance Association, Western Economic Association, Midwest Finance Association, and the North American Economics and Finance Association; past director of the American Finance Association; and co-chair of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. He has been published widely in academic journals and books. Kaufman holds a PhD in economics from the University of Iowa.

Degrees

• Stuyvesant High School, New York City, 1951
• Oberlin College, Ohio, B.A., 1954
• University of Michigan, M.A., 1955
• University of Iowa (Economics), Ph.D., 1962

Research Interests

• Banking
• Bank regulation
• Financial markets
• Monetary policy

Professional & Community Affiliations

Co-Chair, Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee

Co-Editor, Journal of Financial Stability

Founding Editor, Journal of Financial Services Research

Editor, Research in Financial Services

Editorial Board:

Contemporary Economic Policy

Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies

Journal of Managerial Issues

North American Review of Economics and Finance

Journal of Applied Business Research

Multinational Finance Journal

Courses Taught

Financial Markets and Institutions