Thomas Cooley

Thomas F. Cooley is the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, as well as a Professor of Economics in the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science. He served as Dean of the Stern School from 2002 to January 2010. Before joining Stern, he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania, and UC Santa Barbara. Prior to his academic career, he was a systems engineer for IBM Corporation. A Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations he is also the former President of the Society for Economic Dynamics, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and holds an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Economics. He is a widely published scholar in the areas of macroeconomic theory, monetary theory and policy and the financial behavior of firms. He has been a senior advisor and member of the Board of Managers of Standard & Poors since December 2010. He also writes frequent opinion columns for Forbes.com, the Wall Street Journal and other news media.

Responding to the financial crisis of fall 2008, he spearheaded a research and policy initiative that yielded 18 white papers by 33 NYU Stern professors. Together with Stern colleagues he edited and wrote the book, Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance (Wiley, November 2010).

Research Interests

• Macroeconomic theory
• Monetary theory and policy
• The Financial Behavior of Firms

Academic Background

Doctorem Honoris Causa, 1987
Stockholm School of Economics

Ph.D., Economics, 1971
University of Pennsylvania

M.A., Economics, 1969
University of Pennsylvania

B.S., Engineering Science, 1965
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute