Valerie Ramey to Chair Business Cycle Dating Committee
Valerie Ramey, an NBER Research Associate in the Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics Programs, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of California, San Diego, has been named chair of the Business Cycle Dating Committee (BCDC). She is an expert on the sources of business cycles and the macroeconomic impact of monetary and fiscal policies and has served on the Committee since 2017. Ramey succeeds Robert Hall, who has chaired the Committee since it was launched in its current form in 1978. The BCDC chair is appointed by the NBER President with approval of the Executive Committee of the NBER Board of Directors.