US Monetary Policy Forum Panelist Janice Eberly
Janice Eberly is the James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance and recent Senior Associate Dean at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury in 2011−2013 and as Chief Economist at the Treasury.
Professor Eberly’s research focuses on finance and macroeconomics, addressing firms’ capital budgeting and financing decisions and household spending and portfolios. Her work extends into investments and financing of education through student loans and wealth accumulation in housing. More recently she has examined the role of intangibles in capital accumulation and innovation, as well as market power and housing in the monetary transmission mechanism and inflation.
Professor Eberly received a Sloan Research Fellowship and is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She serves as co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and was vice president of the American Economic Association. She will be the President of the Society for Financial Studies in 2024−26. She received her Ph.D. in economics from MIT.