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AN INTERVIEW WITH NEIL WALLACE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2016

David Altig  and
Ed Nosal
David Altig
Affiliation:
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Ed Nosal*
Affiliation:
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
*
Address correspondence to: Ed Nosal, 230 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60604, USA; e-mail: ed.nosal@chi.frb.org.
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Abstract

A few years ago we sat down with Neil Wallace and had two lengthy, free-ranging conversations about his career and, generally speaking, his views on economics. What follows is a distillation of these conversations.

Keywords

Monetary EconomicsResearchTeachingPolicy
Type
MD Interview
Information
Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 21 , Issue 7 , October 2017 , pp. 1790 - 1810
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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Footnotes

The views expressed here do not necessarily represent those of the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Chicago or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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