Professional Experience

• • Senior Adviser

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2011 - present

• • Associate Professor of Economics

    American University

  • 2005 - 2011

• • Visiting Scholar

    The Netherlands Bank

  • 2008

• • External Expert

    Bank for International Settlements

  • 2007 - 2008

• • Guest Scholar

    The Brookings Institution

  • 2004 - 2005

• • Visiting Scholar

    Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

  • 2004 - 2005

• • Senior Research Fellow

    Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics

  • 2000 - 2004

• • Senior Economist

    Council of Economic Advisers

  • 1994 - 1995

• • Senior Economist, Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 1984 - 1999

Publications

• Meade, Ellen E., and Daniel L. Thornton (2012). "The Phillips Curve and US Monetary Policy: What the FOMC Transcripts Tell Us," in Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 64, no. 2. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 197-216.
• Meade, Ellen E. (2012). "The Governance of Central Banks," in Levi-Faur, David ed., The Oxford Handbook of Governance. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 387-400.
• Meade, Ellen (2012). "Institutional Governance and Monetary Arrangements," International Finance, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 137-151.
• Meade, Ellen E. (2010). "Federal Reserve Transcript Publication and Regional Representation," Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 162-170.
• Crowe, Christopher, and Ellen E. Meade (2008). "Central Bank Independence and Transparency: Evolution and Effectiveness," European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 763-777.
• Kenen, Peter B., and Ellen E. Meade (2008). Regional monetary integration. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Meade, Ellen E., and David Stasavage (2008). "Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve," Economic Journal, vol. 118, no. 528, pp. 695-717.
• Crowe, Christopher, and Ellen E. Meade (2007). "The Evolution of Central Bank Governance Around the World," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 69-90.
• Meade, Ellen, and David Stasavage (2006). "Two Effects of Transparency on the Quality of Deliberation," Swiss Political Science Review, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 123-133.
• Meade, Ellen E. (2005). "Asian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia," Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 830-831.
• Meade, Ellen E., and D. N. Sheets (2005). "Regional Influences on FOMC Voting Patterns," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 661-677.
• Meade, Ellen E. (2005). "The FOMC: Preferences, Voting, and Consensus," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 93-101.
• Goodhart, Charles, and Ellen Meade (2004). "Central Banks and Supreme Courts," Moneda y Credito,no. 218, pp. 11-42.
• Meade, Ellen E., and Peter B. Kenen (2004). "Substance and Semantics in ERM II," Central Banking, vol. XIV, no. 4, pp. 61-69.
• Meade, Ellen E., and Peter B. Kenen (2004). "The Maastricht Criteria and the Accession Countries: What is Equal Treatment," Central Banking, vol. XIV, no. 3, pp. 54-62.
• Mann, Catherine L., and Ellen E. Meade (2003). "Home Bias, Transactions Costs, and Prospects for the Euro," in Hunter, William C., George G. Kaufman and Michael Pomerleano eds., Asset Price Bubbles: The Implications for Monetary, Regulatory, and International Policies. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, pp. 403-418.
• Meade, Ellen E. (2003). "A (Critical) Appraisal of the ECB’s Voting Reform," Intereconomics, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 129-131.
• Meade, Ellen E. (2003). "Central Banks in Currency Unions: The Design of the European Central Bank," in Dumoulin, M., G. Duchenne eds., L’Union Européenne Et Les États-Unis: Actes De La VIII Chaire Glaverbel d’études Européennes 2002-2003. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, pp. 275-287.
• Meade, Ellen (1997). "Impact on German Trade of Increased Division of Labor with Eastern Europe: Comment," in Black, Stanley W. ed., Europe's Economy Looks East: Implications for Germany and the European Union. Cambridge; New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 162-164.
• Kole, Linda S., and Ellen E. Meade (1995). "German Monetary Targeting: A Retrospective View," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 81, no. 10, pp. 917-931.
• Meade, Ellen E., and Charles P. Thomas (1993). "Using External Sustainability to Forecast the Dollar," in Bryant, Ralph,C., Peter Hooper and Catherine Mann L. eds., Evaluating Policy Regimes: New Research in Empirical Macroeconomics. Washington: Brookings Institution, pp. 769-790.
• Meade, Ellen E., Gary C. Hufbauer, and Jeffrey Schott (1993). "Review of North American Free Trade: Issues and Recommendations," Journal of International Economics, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 393-395.
• Meade, Ellen E. (1991). "Computers and the Trade Deficit: The Case of the Falling Prices," in Hooper, Peter, J. D. Richardson eds., International Economic Transactions: Issues in Measurement and Empirical Research (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, pp. 61-85.
• Hooper, Peter, and Ellen E. Meade (1989). "U.S. International Transactions in 1988," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 321-332.
• Meade, Ellen E. (1989). "U.S. External Adjustment in Response to the Lower Dollar: The J-Curve," in Fair, D. E., C. de Boissieu eds., The International Adjustment Process: New Perspectives, Recent Experience and Future Challenges for the Financial System. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 95-113.
• Meade, Ellen E. (1988). "Exchange Rates, Adjustment, and the J-Curve," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 74, no. 10, pp. 633-644.

Presentations

• conference

  January 2011

  American Economic Association annual meetings

  Women at the Top of the Economics Profession: 100 Years of Evidence from the AER Papers and Proceedings (with Martha Starr)

• discussion

  May 2010

  Bank of Korea

  ECB Communication

• conference

  November 2010

  Southern Economic Association annual meetings

  Is There a Limit on FOMC Dissents? (with Petra Gerlach-Kristen)

• conference

  May 2009

  Wilfred Laurier University

  The Phillips Curve and US Monetary Policy: What the FOMC Transcripts Tell Us (with Daniel Thornton)

Other Activities