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Michael Woodford is the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and of the Society for Economic Measurement, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.), a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), and a Fellow of the CESifo Research Network (Munich). He was the 2007 recipient of the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, and the 2018 recipient of the Banque de France/TSE Prize in Monetary Economics.
His most important work is the treatise Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy, recipient of the 2003 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics. He is also co-author or co-editor of several other volumes, including a three-volume Handbook of Macroeconomics (with John B. Taylor), a two-volume Handbook of Monetary Economics (with Benjamin M. Friedman), The Inflation Targeting Debate (with Ben S. Bernanke), and the textbook International Macroeconomics (with Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martin Uribe).
His current research focuses on implications of bounded rationality for economic analysis, drawing upon findings in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, with particular emphasis on the consequences of decisions based on imprecise mental representations. With Andrew Caplin of New York University, he co-directs the NBER’s working group on Behavioral Macroeconomics.