Rate My Professor Janet Yellen

Yellen's main academic specialties are macroeconomics and international economics, with research interests encompassing unemployment and labor markets, monetary and fiscal policies, stabilization policy in the United States and Japan, and international trade and investment policy. Key publications include co-editing Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market with George A. Akerlof (Cambridge University Press, 1987) and co-authoring Stabilization Policy: A Reconsideration in Economic Inquiry (2006). Other notable works feature Macroprudential Supervision and Monetary Policy in the Post-crisis World in Business Economics (2011) and contributions to the Quarterly Journal of Economics and Journal of Political Economy. She has been recognized as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001), and Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Yellen's career also includes landmark appointments such as Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1997-1999), Vice Chair (2010-2014) and Chair (2014-2018) of the Federal Reserve, and 78th Secretary of the Treasury (2021-), making her the first person to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department.