Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé (Ph.D. Chicago 1994) is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics at Columbia University, a research associate of the NBER and the CEPR. Prior to joining Columbia, Schmitt-Grohé worked at Duke, Rutgers, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.  Currently, she is a regular research visitor at the European Central Bank. Schmitt-Grohé is a co-author of the 2017 Princeton University Press graduate text “Open Economy Macroeconomics” (joint with Martín Uribe). Her work has been honored with the Bernácer Prize, which is awarded annually to a European economist under the age of 40, who has made outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. Her research focuses on the design of monetary policy, including exist strategies from liquidity traps, and on understanding the sources and propagation of macroeconomic shocks within and across countries.