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Media Advisory: Economist Available for Central Bank Comment

Release Date: Dec 20, 2007

WHO: Marvin Goodfriend, professor of economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, and former senior vice president, policy advisor and research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

WHAT: Comments/perspective on actions by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and other central banks to address the credit crunch, including auctions of term funding for banks.

WHY: Professor Goodfriend is a leading authority on monetary policy and global financial markets, and serves as chairman of the Galliott Center for Public Policy at the Tepper School.  His years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond included service as senior vice president, policy advisor and director of research. He has served as Senior Staff Economist for President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors, and has conducted economic studies at the European Central Bank, Swiss National Bank and International Monetary Fund. He also sits on the advisory board for the Journal of Monetary Economics, and is the associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

AVAILABILITY:  Anytime, via phone interview

CONTACT:   Geof Becker, Tepper School of Business
 (412) 268-3486
 gbecker@andrew.cmu.edu /

 Scott Addison or Michael Stewart, gabbegroup
 (212) 220-4444
 scott.addison@gabbe.com / michael.stewart@gabbe.com