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National Economic Association
NewsLetter – January 2006
Philip Jefferson, NEA President
Philip N. Jefferson, a former research economist at the Federal Reserve Board, teaches macroeconomics, monetary economics, and econometrics. His recent research has delved into such issues as the effects of monetary policy on relative educational unemployment rates, currency holding at different levels of economic development, and price dynamics when there are alternatives to cash payment. Jefferson, whose research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and who served as president of the National Economic Association in 2005, can also provide expert commentary on the Federal Reserve and the monetary policy making process. Jefferson has held visiting appointments at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the University of California. Before coming to Swarthmore in 1997, he taught at Columbia University and the University of Virginia. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Vassar College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, NEA President - Elect
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong has a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) and received a Ph D in Economics from Wayne State University in 1981. He has held teaching positions at New College of the University of South Florida (1982-1988), Wright State University (1988-1994), and University of South Florida at Tampa (1994 to the present) where he currently chairs the Economics Department. From 2002 to 2004, he was an Economics Program Director at the National Science Foundation. In 1986/1987, he was the Principal Analyst of the Defense and Development in Africa Project at Elliot Berg Associates, Alexandria, VA. He currently serves as a consultant to the UN Economic Commission for Africa as well as a member of the Technical Advisory Panel Networks of the African Capacity Building Foundation. He serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of African Finance and Economic Development. B.A. in Economics from Vassar College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia.
Kwabena’s research interests are varied but he concentrates on economics of crime and crime control, labor market discrimination, efficiency in the production of public goods, and economic development of Africa. He has published about 50 articles in peer-reviewed economic journals, including, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Development Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, International Economics Journal, Information Economics and Policy, Journal of African Economies, and The Review of Black Political Economy. He is a member of the American Economics Association, African Finance and Economics Association, and the National Economics Association since 1984.
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