George Kaufman

George Kaufman (* 1933 ) is an American economist .

Career, research and teaching

Kaufman first studied at Oberlin College , where he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954 . He then went to the University of Michigan , where he earned a Master of Arts degree the following year . In 1962, he graduated from the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. with the dissertation entitled "Response of Commercial Banks to Federal Reserve Policy".

Kaufman worked as an economist and researcher for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago until 1970 . He then went to the University of Oregon , where he researched and taught for a decade. In 1981 he followed a call from Loyola University Chicago . There he worked at the Center for Financial and Policy Studies , of which he became director.

Kaufman's main focus is on financial markets , banking , banking regulation and monetary policy . He made a particular appearance in the area of banking supervision and is considered to be one of the intellectual leaders in the reform of banking law at the beginning of the 1990s, which increased the capital requirements of US banks. His core topics include deposit insurance and bank insolvencies.

Due to his main research interests, Kaufman was called in as a consultant by a number of state institutions and private companies. In addition, he is also involved in some research institutions. For example, he was president of both the Western Finance Association and the Midwest Finance Association , where he also sat on the board for a long time. In 2003 he also served as president of the North American Economic and Finance Association , and from 1991 to 2000 he was a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Financial Engineers . He is a co-founder of the Journal of Financial Stability .

Works

The following is a list of books published by Kaufman and the author of numerous magazine articles and working papers.

as editor with William E. Gibson : Monetary Economics: Readings on Current Issues
Money, the Financial System, and the Economy , 1973, 1977, 1981.
Money and the Financial System: Fundamentals , 1975.
The US Financial System: Money, Markets, and Institutions , 1980, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995
as editor with Kenneth Rosén : The Property Tax Revolt: The Case of Proposition 13 , 1981
as editor: Efficiency in the Municipal Bond Market: Use of Tax-Exempt Bonding to Finance "Private" Activities , 1981
as editor with GO Bierwag and Alden Toevs : Innovations in Bond Portfolio Management: Duration Analysis and Immunization , 1983
with George J. Benston , Robert Eisenbeis , Paul Horvitz and Edward Kane : Perspectives on Safe and Sound Banking: Past, Present, and Future , 1986
as editor with Roger Kormendi : Deregulating Financial Services: Public Policy in Flux , 1986
as editor: Research in Financial Services: Private and Public Policies , annually 1989–2003
as editor: Restructuring the American Financial System , 1990
as editor: Banking Structures in Major Countries , 1991
as editor with Robert Litan Assessing Bank Reform: FDICIA One Year Later , 1993
as editor: Reforming Financial Institutions and Markets in the United States , 1994
as editor with George J. Benston and W. Curt Hunter : Discrimination in Financial Services , 1997
as editor with Gerard Caprio , WC Hunter and D. Leipziger : Preventing Bank Crises: Lessons from Recent Global Bank Failures , 1998
as editor with W. Curt Hunter and Thomas Krueger : The Asian Financial Crisis: Origins, Implications, and Solutions , 1999
as editor with Joseph Bisignano and W. Curt Hunter: Global Financial Crises: Lessons from Recent Events , 2000
as editor with W. Curt Hunter and Michael Pomerleano : Asset Price Bubbles: Implications for Monetary, Regulatory, and International Policies , 2005
as editor with Claudio Borio , W. Curt Hunter and Kostas Tsatsaronis : Market Discipline: The Evidence Across Countries and Industries , 2004
as editor with Douglas Evanoff : Systemic Financial Crises: Resolving Large Bank Insolvencies , 2005
as editor with Gerard Caprio and Douglas Evanoff: Cross-Border Banking: Regulatory Challenges , 2006
as editor with Douglas Evanoff and Raymond LaBrosse : International Financial Instability: Global Banking and National Regulation , 2007
as editor with Robert Bliss : Financial Institutions and Markets: Current Issues in Financial Markets , 2008
as editor with Douglas Evanoff and David Hoelscher : Globalization and Systemic Risk , 2009
as editor with Douglas Evanoff and Philipp Hartmann : The First Credit Market Turmoil of the 21st Century , 2009
as editor with Robert Bliss: Financial Institutions and Markets: 2007-2008-The Year of Crisis , 2009
as editor with Robert Bliss: Financial Institutions and Markets: The Financial Crisis , 2010
as editor with Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Douglas Evanoff: The International Financial Crisis: Have the Rules of the Game Changed? , 2011
as editor with Stijin Claessens , Douglas Evanoff and Laura Kodres : Macroprudential Regulatory Policies: The New Road to Financial Stability? , announced

Web links

George Kaufman at Loyola University
Literature by and about George Kaufman in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Kaufman, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1933