Background
Cecchetti, Stephen Giovanni was born on August 18, 1956 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Giovanni A. and Ruth Elizabeth (Schwabacher) Cecchetti.
Cecchetti, Stephen Giovanni was born on August 18, 1956 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Giovanni A. and Ruth Elizabeth (Schwabacher) Cecchetti.
Bachelor of Science in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977; Master of Arts in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1979; Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
His principal fields of interest are macroeconomics, monetary economics, financial economics, monetary policy, central banking, and the supply of money. He received a bachelor"s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, Master of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979, and his Doctor of Philosophy, also from Berkeley. From 1982 to 1987 he was Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University.
He then became Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Ohio State University, rising to Associate Professor in 1989, and to Professor in 1992.
During that period he also held visiting faculty appointments at, Nuffield College, Oxford, Oxford University, Melbourne University, at Boston College, Princeton University, he was a Professor at the Department of Economics, Ohio State University from 1992 to 2002. Brandeis
From 2003 to 2008, he was the Barbara and Richard M Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at the Brandeis International Business School.
Bank for International Settlements
His dissertation (Doctor of Philosophy, 1981) covered inflation. His more recent contributions to academic research have focused on the role of debt and finance in Economic growth, and on improving the resilience of the financial system > At the Bank for International Settlements, he managed the research, statistics and publications produced by the Bank for International Settlements. In the winter of 2013 he returned to Brandeis University Business School as a tenured professor, >
Other activities
From August 1997 to September 1999, Cecchetti was Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New New York
Earlier, he had been for short periods a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Winter-Spring 1986), and a Research Economist at the National Commission for Employment Policy, Washington, District of Columbia, Summer 1981.
In June 2008, he left Brandies to become Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements ( Bank for International Settlements) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Bank for International Settlements.
Married Ruth M. Charney, September 6, 1986. Children: Daniel A., Ethan B.