Alan Taylor

Alan M. Taylor is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, holding appointments in both the Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Management. In the field of Business & Economics, he teaches economics and finance. He studied mathematics at King’s College, Cambridge, and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. His research specializations encompass finance, macroeconomics, international economics, economic history, international trade, and finance. Taylor is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. He serves as co-editor of the Journal of International Economics.

Taylor’s career includes serving as a senior advisor at Morgan Stanley and as a consultant to various asset managers. He has been a visitor, consultant, and speaker at numerous public sector organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, European Central Bank, Bank for International Settlements, various Federal Reserve Banks, and the central banks of France, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Croatia, and Argentina. His major publications include Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth, co-authored with Maurice Obstfeld and published by Cambridge University Press in 2004; Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880–1935, co-authored with Gerardo della Paolera and published by The University of Chicago Press; and highly influential articles such as Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870–2008 in the American Economic Review (2012), The Purchasing Power Parity Debate in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (2004), When Credit Bites Back in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2013), and The Trilemma in History: Tradeoffs Among Exchange Rates, Monetary Policies, and Capital Mobility in the Review of Economics and Statistics (2005). He has published numerous articles in leading journals including Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Economic History, as well as edited volumes. Taylor has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2004 and the Houblon-Norman/George Fellowship at the Bank of England in 2009–10. His scholarship has significantly shaped understandings of global capital markets, financial crises, and macroeconomic stability, with policy essays appearing in the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Reuters, ft.com, and vox.eu.

Professional Email: amtaylor@ucdavis.edu