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Michael S. Hanson Department of Economics |
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Michael Hanson is an assistant professor of Economics at Wesleyan
University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan. He also
has earned a M.S. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute at New
York University and completed a dual-degree program (B.A. from Arts
& Sciences, B.S.E. from The Wharton School) at the University
of Pennsylvania. His academic interests include macroeconomics,
monetary economics, international finance and applied econometrics,
and teaches courses in all of these subjects. His current research
focuses upon empirical measurement of U.S. monetary policy and its
role in economic fluctuations during the second-half of the
twentieth century. Before graduate school he worked at the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, and as a Ph.D. student he held a summer
fellowship position at the International Finance Division of the
Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Outside of the classroom, Professor Hanson enjoys baseball, softball, mountain biking, and a variety of live and recorded music, especially jazz. He still dabbles with playing the guitar, though not nearly as often (nor as well) as when he was writing songs with friends in college. He has been told that he is fairly computer savvy, yet he still does not know how to program the family VCR. These days, he especially enjoys spending time with his wife and young children. |