BIO

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou’s areas of special interest are community development banking, banking and financial structure, the Federal Reserve, monetary and fiscal policy, and the distribution of wealth and income in the United States. He is a member of the Levy Institute’s macromodeling team, and is also continuing his work in the program of financial markets and monetary policy on the appropriateness of using existing price indexes as targets for monetary policy. In addition, his interests include measures of well-being and the effects of macropolicy on the distribution of income. Papadimitriou is president of the Levy Institute and executive vice president and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College. He served as vice chairman of the congressional U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission and was a Distinguished Scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (PRC) in fall 2002. Papadimitriou is general editor of The Levy Economics Institute book series and a member of the editorial boards of the Review of Income and Wealth and Challenge. He is a graduate of Columbia University and received a Ph.D. in economics from New School University.