20th Anniversary Speakers

John B. Taylor

Stanford University & Hoover Institution

Speaker at New York Public Policy Symposium
 

John B. Taylor is a world-renowned economist known for his research on the foundations of modern monetary theory and policy and his experience in international economics. He has an active interest in public policy and has served at various senior levels in government. The author of Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, his current research focuses on the causes and effects of the current financial crisis and other policy issues. A pioneer in developing new approaches to monetary policy, he proposed the Taylor Rule, which central banks use to help determine interest rates. The Taylor Principle is widely credited with keeping economic performance stable for the past two decades: raise short-term inter¬est rates to cool the economy when inflation or output become too high, lower rates when either falls too low. Professor Taylor has held several senior positions in govern¬ment, including Undersecretary of the Treasury for Inter¬national Affairs.
John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institu¬tion. He has served as the director of the Stanford Insti¬tute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and was found¬ing director of Stanford’s Introductory Economics Center. He has received several awards for his distinguished public service and won several teaching awards. John was recently awarded the 2010 Bradley Prize for outstanding achievement. He has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Financial Times, New York Times and he’s been a frequent guest on CNBC, FOX Business News, Tavis Smiley and Bloomberg TV.