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Randall S Kroszner | The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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Randall S. Kroszner served as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2009.
He chaired the committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Institutions and the
committee on Consumer and Community Affairs. In these capacities, he took a leading role in

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developing responses to the financial crisis and in undertaking new initiatives to improve
consumer protection and disclosure, including rules related to home mortgages and credit cards.
He represented the Federal Reserve Board on the Financial Stability Forum (now called the
Financial Stability Board), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Central Bank
Governors of the American Continent and was a director of NeighborWorks America. Dr.
Kroszner chaired the working party of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD), composed of deputy central bank governors and finance ministers, on
Policies for the Promotion of Better International Payments Equilibrium. As a member of the Fed
Board, he was also a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee.
From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Kroszner was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers
(CEA). He was involved in formulating policy on a wide range of issues, including responses to
corporate governance scandals, government-sponsored enterprise reform, pension reform,
terrorism risk insurance, tax reform, currency crisis management, sovereign debt restructuring,
the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and international trade and development.
Since 1990, Dr. Kroszner has taught at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Dr.
Kroszner was Director of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the
State. He served as editor of the Journal of Law & Economics and has been associate editor of a

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number of other academic and policy journals. He was a member of the board of directors at the
National Association for Business Economics. Dr. Kroszner also was a member of the Federal
Economic Statistics Advisory Committee at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of
Labor. He is currently a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and
serves on the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economics Association. He
serves on the board of the Financial Management Association and of the Paulson Institute. He is
the Booth Academic Director of the CEO Perspectives program.
Dr. Kroszner has been a visiting scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the IMF, the
Stockholm School of Economics, the Stockholm University, the Free University of Berlin,
Germany, the London School of Economics, and the American Enterprise Institute. He was the
John M. Olin Visiting Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School the
Bertil Danielson Visiting Professor of Banking and Finance at the Stockholm School of
Economics, and the SK Chaired Visiting Professor at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
His research interests include regulation of financial institutions, international financial crises, the
Great Depression, monetary economics, corporate governance, debt restructuring and
bankruptcy, and political economy. His paper on managerial stock ownership (with Clifford
Holderness and Dennis Sheehan) won the Brattle Prize for best corporate finance paper in the
Journal of Finance. His book co-authored with Robert J. Shiller, Reforming U.S. Financial
Markets: Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank (MIT Press) appeared on the Washington
Post’s Book World political best sellers list.
Dr. Kroszner is a frequent commentator in the international media. He provides advice to financial
institutions, government organizations, and central banks throughout the world. He is a member
of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the global financial system and is
involved with Gates Foundation initiatives on promoting access to financial services for the poor
in emerging market countries.
Dr. Kroszner received a Sc.B. (magna cum laude) in applied mathematics-economics (honors)
from Brown University in 1984 and an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990), both in economics, from
Harvard University.

2015 - 2016 Course Schedule
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33401

Money and Banking

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33650

Workshop in Macro and International Economics

2016 (Winter)

Other Interests
Movies, architecture, classical music, dining.

Research Activities
International and domestic banking and financial institutions and their regulation; conflicts of
interest in financial services firms; international financial crises; the Great Depression; monetary
economics; corporate governance; debt restructuring and bankruptcy; corporate governance;
political economy.

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