Michael Klein

About

Michael W. Klein is the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economics Affairs at the Fletcher School, Tufts University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the Founder and Executive Editor of EconoFact (www.econofact.org) a nonpartisan digital publication launched in January 2017 to present statistics and economic frameworks on timely policy issues. He served as Chief Economist in the Office of International Affairs at the United States Treasury from June 2010 to December 2011. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Bank of England, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Boston, Dallas, and San Francisco. His research interests include international macroeconomic policy, international capital markets, effects of international factors on United States labor markets, exchange rate policy, and foreign direct investment. He has published extensively in scholarly journals, and is the co-author of two scholarly books, Job Creation, Job Destruction and International Competition (2003), and Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era (2010), and is the author of the textbook Mathematical Methods for Economics (2nd edition 2002). He is also the author of the novel Something for Nothing (2011), an academic satire. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.