Kenneth Kuttner
Kenneth.Kuttner@oberlin.edu

Kenneth N. Kuttner (Ph.D., Harvard, 1989), the Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics at Oberlin College, has published numerous articles in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial economics. His research has addressed such issues as the role of monetary aggregates and interest rates in monetary policy, inflation targeting, the estimation of potential output, and the reaction of financial markets to unanticipated shifts in Federal Reserve policy. Recent work has focused on the macroeconomic situation in Japan.

Mr. Kuttner's most recent publications include: “What Explains the Stock Market’s Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?” (with Ben Bernanke), Journal of Finance (2005); "The Great Recession: Lessons for Macroeconomic Policy from Japan" (with Adam Posen), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2001); "Monetary Policy Surprises and Interest Rates: Evidence from the Fed funds Futures Market," Journal of Monetary Economics (2001); and "Are There Bank Effects in Borrowers' Cost of Funds? Evidence from a Matched Sample of Borrowers and Banks" (with Glenn Hubbard and Darius Palia), Journal of Business (2002). His work has also appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Econometrics, and International Journal of Finance and Economics. Mr. Kuttner is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the macroeconomics co-editor for Economics Letters.

Prior to joining Oberlin College, Mr. Kuttner was an Assistant Vice President in the Research departments of the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Chicago, where he specialized in the analysis of monetary policy issues. Mr. Kuttner's academic experience includes positions as a visiting professor at Columbia Business School, the New Economic School in Moscow, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has also served as an adjunct professor at New York University, Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, and DePaul University.

Spring 2008