John C. Driscoll



John C. Driscoll is an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. His research has focused on macroeconomics, banking, and consumer finance, and has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among other journals. In 2010, he was co-recipient of a certificate of excellence in TIAA-CREF's Paul Samuelson award competition for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial stability. He is currently a vice president of the International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA). Before assuming his current position, he taught at Brown University and was a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, as a policy adviser at the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Stability Oversight Council, and as an associate editor of Financial Planning Review. Driscoll received S.B. degrees in physics and economics from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.