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Dr.

Janet L. Yellen

Brookings Institution
Economist; Educator; Banker
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
2001
Her remarkable career includes impressive work in macro and microeconomics and positions as Chair of the Federal Reserve and Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.  She is currently a Distinguished Fellow in the Hutchins Center on Monetary and Fiscal Policy at the Brookings Institution.  Her writings on bundling and advertising (micro) and near-rational theory of business cycles are much cited, as are her papers on neighborhoods, crime, and teen pregnancy.
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