Janet Yellen | |
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78th United States Secretary of the Treasury | |
Assumed office January 26, 2021 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Deputy | Wally Adeyemo |
Preceded by | Steven Mnuchin |
15th Chair of the Federal Reserve | |
In office February 3, 2014 – February 3, 2018 | |
President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
Deputy | Stanley Fischer |
Preceded by | Ben Bernanke |
Succeeded by | Jerome Powell |
19th Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve | |
In office October 4, 2010 – February 3, 2014 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Donald Kohn |
Succeeded by | Stanley Fischer |
Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors | |
In office October 4, 2010 – February 3, 2018 | |
President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Mark W. Olson |
Succeeded by | Lisa D. Cook |
In office August 12, 1994 – February 17, 1997 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Wayne Angell |
Succeeded by | Edward Gramlich |
11th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | |
In office June 14, 2004 – October 4, 2010 | |
Preceded by | Robert T. Parry |
Succeeded by | John C. Williams |
18th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
In office February 18, 1997 – August 3, 1999 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Joseph Stiglitz |
Succeeded by | Martin Neil Baily |
Personal details | |
Born | Janet Louise Yellen August 13, 1946 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | |
Children | 1 |
Education | Brown University (AB) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
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Academic career | |
Institution | |
Field | Macroeconomics Labor economics |
School or tradition | New Keynesian economics |
Doctoral advisor | James Tobin |
Academic advisors | Joseph Stiglitz |
Doctoral students | Charles Engel |
Influences | John Maynard Keynes |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Employment, Output and Capital Accumulation in an Open Economy: A Disequilibrium Approach (1971) |
Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. Yellen is the first woman to hold each of those posts and the first person to have led the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department.[1][2]
Born and raised in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Yellen graduated from Brown University in 1967 and earned her PhD in economics from Yale University in 1971. She taught as an assistant professor at Harvard University from 1971 until 1976 when she began working for the Federal Reserve Board as an economist from 1977 to 1978, before joining the faculty of the London School of Economics from 1978 to 1980. Yellen is professor emeritus of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been a faculty member since 1980 and became the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics.[3]
Yellen was a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1994 to 1997 nominated to position by President Bill Clinton, who then named her chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999. Yellen later served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010. Afterwards, President Barack Obama appointed her to replace Donald Kohn as vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 2010 to 2014, before nominating her to succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She served one term and was succeeded by Jerome Powell after President Donald Trump had decided against her renomination. Following resignation from the Federal Reserve, Yellen was a distinguished fellow in residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 2018 to 2020. She returned to government with appointment as secretary of the treasury under President Joe Biden since January 26, 2021. Secretary Yellen has been confirmed by the United States Senate on five separate occasions.[1]
Early life and education
Yellen was born on August 13, 1946,[4] to a family of Polish Jewish[5] ancestry in the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City,[6] where she also grew up. Her mother was Anna Ruth (née Blumenthal; 1907–1986), an elementary school teacher, who quit teaching to become a stay-at-home mom, and her father was Julius Yellen (1906–1975), a family physician, who worked from the ground floor of their house. Janet has an older brother, John (b. 1942), a program director for archaeology at the National Science Foundation.[7][8][5][9]
In a speech at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Yellen told that her father's family immigrated to the United States from Sokołów Podlaski, a small town about 50 miles outside of Warsaw. She shared that nearly the entirety of its Jewish population, including many of her relatives, was deported or murdered during the Holocaust.[10] [11]
Yellen attended local Fort Hamilton High School, where she was an honor society member, and participated in the boosters club, the psychology club, and the history club, as well as was the editor-in-chief of the Pilot, the school newspaper, which continued its 13-year streak as the first-place winner of the prestigious Columbia Scholastic Press Association contest under her leadership.[12] She also earned a National Merit commendation letter, and was admitted to a selective science honors program at Columbia University to voluntarily study mathematics on Saturday mornings. Yellen was one of 30 students to win state Regents scholarships for college, and one of a select few to win the mayor’s citation for scholarship.[12] She graduated in 1963, being class valedictorian. In line with school tradition, for the editor to interview the valedictorian, she conducted an interview with herself in the third person.[13][14][8][12]
Yellen enrolled at the Pembroke College in Brown University, initially intending to study philosophy. However, during her freshman year, she switched her planned major to economics and was particularly influenced by professors George Herbert Borts and Herschel Grossman.[15] While in college, she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Yellen graduated summa cum laude from Brown University with a bachelor's in economics in 1967,[16] and earned her master's and PhD in economics from Yale University in 1971.[17] Her dissertation was titled Employment, Output and Capital Accumulation in an Open Economy: A Disequilibrium Approach under the supervision of James Tobin, a noted economist who would later receive the Nobel prize. As a teaching assistant, Yellen was so meticulous in taking notes during Tobin's macroeconomics class that they ended up as the unofficial textbook, circulated among generations of graduate students, and known as the "Yellen Notes."[17][18] Her former professor Joseph Stiglitz, another Nobel laureate, has called her one of his brightest and most memorable students.[19] She later described Yale professors Tobin and William Brainard as "lifelong mentors," who provided the main intellectual foundation for her views on the economy.[20] Yellen was the only woman among the two dozen economists who earned their doctorates from Yale in 1971.[19]
Academic career
After receiving her Ph.D, Yellen obtained the position of assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, where she taught from 1971 to 1976.[21] At that time, she was one of only two women faculty on the Harvard's economics department, the other woman was Rachel McCulloch; the two struck up a close friendship, and went on to write several academic papers together.[19] In 1977, Yellen took a job within the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors in Washington after failing to win tenure at Harvard; she was recruited as a staff economist for the Board of Governors by Edwin M. Truman, who had known her from Yale. Truman was a junior professor and heard Yellen's oral exam, and then about to take over the Fed's Division of International Finance. She was assigned to research international monetary reform.[22][23]
While at the Fed, she met her husband George Akerlof in the bank's cafeteria; they wed in 1978, less than a year later.[22] By the time of their marriage, Akerlof had already accepted a teaching position at the London School of Economics (LSE). Yellen left her post at the Fed to accompany him, and was employed as an economics lecturer by LSE.[24] They remained in London for two years, then returned to the United States.
In 1980, Yellen joined the faculty at the Berkeley's Haas School of Business to conduct macroeconomics research and teach undergraduate and MBA students for more than two decades, also held a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Economics from 1999 to 2003. She earned the Haas School's outstanding teaching award twice.[25] Prof. Yellen was just the second woman at Berkeley-Haas to earn tenure in 1982, as well as the title of full professor in 1985.[26] She was named the Bernard T. Rocca, Jr. Professor of International Business and Trade in 1992.[27][3][28]
From 1994 to 1999, Yellen took leave of absence from Berkeley going to the public service. After return to university, she resumed her teaching assignment and became the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics in 1999,[27] serving as active faculty member until her appointment as president & chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in 2004.[29] Yellen awarded the title of Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley in 2006.[28][3]
Through her career, Yellen served as an adviser to the Congressional Budget Office, the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity and the National Science Foundation’s Panel in Economics. She was also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1999 to 2010.[28][30]
Contributions to economics
Yellen has had a remarkable academic career, largely focused on analysis of the mechanisms of unemployment and labor markets, monetary and fiscal policies, and international trade. She has written a few widely cited papers, often collaborating with her husband, Professor George Akerlof, on research.[31][32]
Efficiency wage models
Since 1980s, Yellen with Akerlof address what's known in the economics literature as "efficiency wage theory" – the idea that paying people more than the market wage does, in fact, increase their productivity. Their 1990 paper, entitled "The Fair-Wage Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment," christen "the fair wage-effort hypothesis," considered by economists a significant contribution to the topic: "is a precursor to the efficiency wage literature", "It had an influence, although the work on efficiency wage theory has had a bigger influence."[33] Akerlof and Yellen introduced the gift-exchange game, a model in which argue that workers who receive less than what they perceive to be a fair wage will purposely work less hard as a way to take revenge on their employer.[33][31]
Reproductive technology shock
Another important work, "An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States" co-written with Akerlof and Michael Katz and published in 1996, aims to explain why out of wedlock births had grown considerably in previous decades in the United States. Research study led to a theory called "reproductive technology shock," arguing that the increased availability of both abortion and contraception in the late 1960s and early 1970s amidst sexual revolution, eroded the social norms surrounding sex, pregnancy and marriage, leading to a sharp decline in the stigma of unwed motherhood. At the same time, this transformation encouraged biological fathers to reject not only the notion of an obligation to marry the mother but also the idea of a paternal obligation.[34][35][36]
Federal Reserve (1994–1997)
On April 22, 1994, President Bill Clinton announced his intention to nominate Yellen as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, alongside Alan Blinder, who has been designated as vice chairman, the first Democratic appointees to the Board since 1980; with the announcement, president praised her as "one of the most prominent economists of her generation on the intersection of macroeconomics and labor markets."[37][38][39] Hovever, President Clinton did not play a direct role in the selection process, delegating most of the responsibility to NEC Director Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and CEA Chair Laura Tyson, who was a colleague of Yellen's at Berkeley. The group settled on her candidacy after an exhaustive search that at one point included nearly 50 names.[40] On July 22, 1994, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Yellen said that Fed policies should keep the economy growing as much as possible without accelerating inflation but avoid to take a clear position on prospect of further increases in interest rates.[41][42] Senate panel approved her nomination, without much of Republican opposition, by a vote of 18 to 1. The only dissenting vote came from Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-NC), who had told that her concerns should be limited to "inflation, inflation and inflation". Nomination was confirmed in the United States Senate by a vote of 94–6.[43][44] On August 12, 1994, Yellen assume the seat vacated by Republican Wayne Angell been appointed to a full 14-year term.[44] She became the fourth woman installed governor, serving alongside Susan M. Phillips, the first time that two women have sat on the Federal Reserve Board.[45][46]
In July 1996, the Federal Reserve under Chairman Alan Greenspan, resisted pressure to raise interest rates as unemployment declined. But Yellen marshaled academic research to dissuade Greenspan from committing the Fed to a zero inflation policy and demonstrate that the central bank should seek to moderate inflation rather than eliminate it.[47][48] The study showed that a little inflation rate around the 2 percent range actually was better basis to minimize unemployment and increase economic growth than the goal of zero.[47][49][50]
On February 17, 1997, Yellen left the Federal Reserve to become chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Council of Economic Advisers (1997–1999)
On December 20, 1996, Yellen joined the Clinton administration as chair of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), replacing Joseph Stiglitz in office.[51][52][53] She was confirmed unanimously by the Senate, on February 13, 1997,[54][55] the second woman to hold the job, following Laura Tyson.[56][19] While at the CEA, she also chaired the Economic Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from 1997 to 1999.[2]
During her time with the Council of Economic Advisers, Yellen oversaw a landmark report "Explaining Trends in the Gender Wage Gap"[57] focused on the gender pay divide in June 1998. Within this study, the Council analyzed data from 1969 to 1996 to determine the cause for women to earn substantially less than men. By observing trends attributable to issues like occupation/industry as well as familial status, it was determined that while the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was a step forward, there was no explanation as to why there was a 25 percent difference between average pay for women and men – an improvement from the 40 percent gap two decades earlier. It was concluded that this gap had no correlation with differences in productivity and, as such, was the repercussions of discrimination within the workforce.[19]
In June 1999, Yellen announced that she stepping down from the CEA for personal reasons and would return to teaching at UC Berkeley.[58] It was reported that President Clinton asked her to take over from Alice Rivlin, the central bank's vice chairwoman, an offer she turned down.[59][60]
Return to the Federal Reserve (2004–2018)
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
On June 14, 2004, Yellen was assigned as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, ensuing Robert T. Parry, the first woman to hold those position.[61][62][19] She was a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on a rotating basis once every three years. During her time at the San Francisco Fed, the largest of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks in terms of population and economic output, she spoke publicly and in meetings of the Fed's monetary policy committee, regarding her concerns about the potential consequences of the boom in housing prices.[47] She also sounded alarms with Washington colleagues about banks' heavy concentration in risky construction and home-development loans.[63][64] However, Yellen did not lead the San Francisco Fed to "move to check [the] increasingly indiscriminate lending" of Countrywide Financial, the largest lender in the U.S.[65] On June 5, 2009, Yellen said that Federal Reserve should consider raising interest rates earlier to prevent another housing bubble. She argued that higher short-term interest rates probably went against the expansion of a bubble in certain circumstances, like restrain the demand for housing and high-risk mortgages.[66]
In July 2009, Yellen was mentioned as a potential successor to Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term set to expire, before he was re-nominated for a second four-year term.[67] On October 4, 2010, she left San Francisco Fed to take appointment as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve
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On April 28, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Yellen to succeed Donald Kohn as vice chair of the Federal Reserve.[68][69] In July, the Senate Banking Committee voted 17–6 to confirm her, though the top Republican on the panel, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, voted no, saying he believed Yellen had an "inflationary bias".[70] At the same time, on the heels of related testimony by Fed Chairman Bernanke, FOMC voting member James B. Bullard of the St. Louis Fed stated that the U.S. economy was "at risk of becoming 'enmeshed in a Japanese-style deflationary outcome within the next several years.'"[71]
Bullard's statement was interpreted as a possible shift within the FOMC balance between inflation hawks and doves. Yellen's pending confirmation, along with those of Peter Diamond and Sarah Bloom Raskin to fill vacancies, was seen as possibly furthering such a shift in the FOMC. All three nominations were seen as "on track to be confirmed by the Senate".[71]
On September 29, 2010, Yellen, alongside Raskin,[72] confirmed by the Senate on a voice vote, to be both a member of the board of governors,[73] and vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System.[74] On October 4, the pair were sworn in as fed governors, while Yellen also took the oath of office as vice chair of the board for a four-year term. Simultaneously, she began a 14-year term as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, filling a vacant seat last held by Mark W. Olson.[75] Yellen was the second woman to hold the No. 2 post at the Fed, after Alice Rivlin, who had that role from 1996 to 1999.[76][77]
Yellen as vice chair, by contrast with her predecessors, has acted more as an independent force within the institution. She has trying to persuade Bernanke and the rest of the committee to adopt her preferred course for monetary policy, advocating more aggressive steps to pump money into the economy to bring down unemployment.[78] In January 2012, the Fed announced its own inflation target of two percent a year, after a long campaign by Bernanke and Yellen, who was an early supporter of inflation targeting in the face of opposition from Chairman Greenspan since 1990s.[47][79][80]
Yellen was considered as the front-runner to succeed Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve when his second term ceased.[81][82] The other leading candidate to the post was Lawrence Summers, a former President Clinton's treasury secretary and former director of President Obama's National Economic Council.[83] During the race, Summers has come under fire for his support for deregulating parts of the banking sector while he served in the Clinton administration, he also sparked controversy for his comments on women's aptitude in math and science at the time of Harvard presidency in 2005.[84] In July 2013, Senate Democrats were circulating a letter that has been signed by roughly a third of the 54 Democratic and allied senators, largely represent the liberal wing of the Senate Democratic Caucus, urging President Obama to appoint Yellen as chairwoman of the central bank.[85] In addition, more than 500 professional economists from more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States signed an open letter in support of her candidacy for Fed chair and sent it to the White House.[86] On September 15, 2013, after weeks of opposition to his potential nomination, Summers withdrew his name from consideration for the position.[87][88]
Chair of the Federal Reserve
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On October 9, 2013, Yellen was officially nominated to replace Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve, the first vice chair to be elevated to that post; via announcement, President Obama called her "one of the nation’s foremost economists and policymakers" who was "exceptionally well-qualified for this role".[89][90][91][76][92] During the nomination hearings held on November 14, 2013, Yellen defended the more than $3 trillion in stimulus funds that the central bank had been injecting into the U.S. economy. She also said that it is important for the Fed to try to detect asset bubbles, and that if she saw one, she would work to address it.[93][94]
On December 20, 2013, the U.S. Senate voted 59–34 for cloture on Yellen's nomination.[95] On January 6, 2014, she was confirmed as chair of the Federal Reserve by a vote of 56–26,[96] the narrowest margin ever for the position.[97] Aside from being a trailblazer as the first woman to lead the U.S. central bank, or any major central bank, Yellen was also the first Democratic nominee to hold the job since Paul Volcker became chairman in 1979 (via President Jimmy Carter).[98] She's notable also for being arguably the most liberal Fed leader since Marriner S. Eccles, who was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression.[7] Until her appointment, there has been only one female head of the central bank in the history of the Group of Eight ("G8") countries – Russia's Elvira Nabiullina.[99] After being unanimously elected by the Federal Open Market Committee as its chair on January 30, 2014,[100] she took office on February 3, 2014.[101][102] In her 2014 semiannual testimony on monetary policy, Yellen said that while real estate, equities, and corporate bond prices "have risen appreciably and valuation metrics have increased", they were "generally in line with historical norms"; Yellen noted some concerns about valuations of "lower-rated corporate debt" (i.e., junk bonds), and noted that she and the Fed were monitoring trends, but did not believe that a so-called "everything bubble" was forming.[103]
With Yellen as chair, the Federal Reserve increased its key interest rate on December 16, 2015. This was the first time the key interest rate was increased since 2006.[104] That move was largely expected, because extraordinarily low interest rates for an extremely long time may contribute to financial instability and pose a threat to the economy. It is considered, in some ways, a departure from previous controversial Fed policy known as Greenspan put.[105][106][107] During her tenure, the Fed has gradually raised rates four additional times, leaving its key rate in a still-low range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent – well low by historical standards. However, Fed policymakers once again have the ability to cut the rates to stimulate growth in case if the economy slows.[108]
After the 2016 presidential election, Yellen gave a strong defense of the Dodd–Frank Act at her Joint Economic Committee testimony, standing in opposition to the incoming President Donald Trump's plans to review the landmark legislation. She argued that it would be inappropriate to weaken or repeal the law designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.[109][110]
Trump considered renominating Yellen for another term,[111][112] but instead picked Fed Governor Jerome Powell, a Republican, to run the Federal Reserve once her term ended on February 3, 2018. That move broke a decades-long presidential tradition of cross-partisan central bank chair appointments; the last Fed chairman eligible for reappointment but not to be renominated by a successor presidential administration was Arthur Burns in 1978.[113][114][115] After Trump's decision, Yellen announced resignation at the end of her term as chair.[116][117][118] She was the briefest-serving Fed chair since G. William Miller from 1978 to 1979, and the first in nearly 40 years to not receive a second term.[119][120]
On February 2, 2018, her last day in office, Chair Yellen enforced unprecedented sanctions placed on Wells Fargo, the third largest U.S. bank, with a consent order that restricted the firm from future growth until the organization fixed its internal problems.[121][122] The move came in response to a string of "widespread consumer abuses and compliance breakdowns" at the company, including a fake accounts scandal.[123] It marked the first time the Federal Reserve has imposed a cap on the entire assets of a financial institution.[124]
Yellen has been called one of the most successful chairs of the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the labor markets. During her term, the unemployment rate dropped from 6.7 percent to 4.1 percent, the lowest in 17 years.[125][126][108] It marked the first time the economy had added jobs throughout every month of any Fed's chair tenure.[126] Yellen completed her time at the Fed with the lowest final unemployment rate of any Fed chair since William McChesney Martin in 1970.[127] Under her leadership, the U.S. unemployment rate fell more than during any other chair's term in modern history when compared to the beginning of her term to its end. It declined 2.6 percentage points, the maximum in the post-World War II era.[127] Meanwhile, inflation remained below the Fed's annual two percent target, which also led to suggestions that the Federal Reserve could have done more to bolster the economy without the risk of price increases.[128]
Yellen holds a unique place in Federal Reserve history. In addition to being the first woman to lead the institution, she was also the first person ever to have served at the nation's central bank system with stints as a Fed Reserve chair (from 2014 to 2018), vice chair (from 2010 to 2014), president of the regional Federal Reserve Bank (at the San Francisco Fed, from 2004 to 2010), Fed governor (from 1994 to 1997), as well as Fed staff economist (from 1977 to 1978).[129][130]
After the Federal Reserve (2018–2020)
On February 2, 2018, the Brookings Institution announced that Yellen would be joining the think tank as a distinguished fellow in residence with the Economic Studies program, effective February 5, 2018. She's been affiliated with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings.[131][132][133] Within the institution, she has been providing expertise and commentary on a range of economic issues, offering her perspective and analysis at Brookings panels, congressional testimony, lectures across the United States and abroad, and regularly serving as a commentator in the media. From November 2020, Yellen was on a leave from position since she was selected as the nominee to head the Treasury Department.[134]
On June 27, 2017, Yellen stated that she did not expect another financial crisis "in our lifetime", explaining that this assumption can be made due to her belief that banks are "very much stronger" as a result of Federal Reserve oversight.[135] However, on December 10, 2018, in conversation with Paul Krugman at the City University of New York, she warned of the possibility of another financial crisis by citing "gigantic holes in the system" after her departure from the Federal Reserve.[136][137]
On February 25, 2019, Yellen criticized President Trump's economic policies. When asked if she believes Trump has "a grasp of economic policy", Yellen said "No, I do not."[138] In an interview with Marketplace, Yellen explained that she doubts that Trump could articulate the Federal Reserve's explicit goals of "maximum employment and price stability".[139] Yellen pointed out Trump's claims that the Federal Reserve's goals involve trade, which she explains to be objectively false. This interview was a change in tone for Yellen, who traditionally handled her differences with Trump in a neutral manner.[140]
On July 17, 2020, at the hearing of a select coronavirus subcommittee that was set up by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, former Fed Chairs Bernanke and Yellen testified to the United States Congress about the economic policy response to the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic. They urged lawmakers to act aggressively with fiscal stimulus in three areas: extending the supplementary unemployment payments; providing additional financial assistance to hard-hit states and local governments; and investing in the medical response to the pandemic.[141][142] She also expressed this commitment to stimulus in an op-ed for the New York Times with Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.[143]
On August 13, 2020, it was reported that Yellen was among a handful of economists who briefed former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and his chosen running mate Sen. Kamala Harris on economic issues, but she did not officially join the presidential campaign.[144][145][146] The meeting made headlines for being one of the first times the Biden campaign announced who it was turning to for economic expertise. But few at the time predicted Yellen for any of the president's Cabinet posts.[147]
Between 2018 and 2020, Yellen had received over $7 million in speaking fees from financial companies such as Barclays, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and the hedge fund Citadel after leaving the Federal Reserve.[148][149] With her return in government, she's pledged to get official permission from the Office of Government Ethics to participate in substantive issues involving such firms to avoid any conflict of interest.[150][149]
Secretary of the Treasury (2021–present)
Nomination and confirmation
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Following the 2020 presidential election, Yellen was routinely mentioned as a possible secretary of the treasury in the incoming Biden administration. She edged out other top contenders, in order to obtain the position, including Fed Board Gov. Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr., a former vice chairman at the central bank.[151][152][147][153]
On November 30, 2020, then President-elect Biden announced he would nominate Yellen as Treasury Secretary in his Cabinet, and lauded her as "one of the most important economic thinkers of our time" who "spent her career focused on employment and the dignity of work."[154][155][156][157][158] Despite been a highly respected figure across the political spectrum, expected to win confirmation easily, she was considered as an unusual pick for the position because of her lack of experience in political maneuvering. Unlike her predecessors, she is viewed more as an academic economist than a traditional politician accustomed to lawmaker horse-trading and dealmaking, qualities that could be crucial to achieve the goals of Biden's economic agenda in a deeply partisan Congress.[159][160][161] All living former U.S. treasury secretaries from George Shultz to Jack Lew endorsed Yellen to the position in a bipartisan letter calling on the Senate to swiftly confirm her.[162][163]
The Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved Yellen's candidature by a 26–0 vote on January 22, 2021.[164][165] The full U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination with a vote of 84–15 (with one abstention, Marco Rubio, R-FL)[166] on January 25, 2021.[167] With her oath of office administered by Vice President Harris the next day,[168][169] Yellen became the first woman took office of secretary of the treasury, and the first person in American history to lead the three most powerful economic bodies in the Federal government of the United States: the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the White House Council of Economic Advisers.[1][167]
Yellen was appointed as the first female treasury secretary of the United States, and only two other women – France's Christine Lagarde and Canada's Chrystia Freeland – have held similar positions within the Group of Seven ("G7") nations.[170]
Tenure
Proposed international tax reform
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In April 2021, Yellen proposed a global minimum corporate tax rate, to prevent profit shifting used by multinational companies for purposes of tax avoidance.[171][172][173] On June 5, 2021, finance ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) – the major advanced economies – reached a historic agreement to reform the global tax system, agreeing to back a minimum global corporate tax rate of at least 15%; French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire calling it "a starting point" that could be increased in the future.[174][175][176][177] On June 10, 2021, Treasury Secretary Yellen joined with four foreign counterparts in penning an op-ed for the Washington Post that described the new accord as "a historic opportunity to end the race to the bottom in corporate taxation, restoring government resources at a time when they are most needed".[178] On July 1, 2021, US-backed negotiations within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to create wider global tax parity won support from a group of 130 nations, representing more than 90 percent of global GDP, establishing a new framework for international tax reform.[179][180][181] On July 10, 2021, financial leaders from the G20 countries come to an agreement on plans to put an end to global tax havens and force multinational corporations to pay an appropriate share of tax wherever they operate and create a "more stable and fairer international tax architecture".[182][183][184]
On October 8, 2021, more than 130 countries, including several low-tax jurisdictions that had resisted the pact, enforced through OECD a landmark agreement to set a global minimum tax rate of 15% starting in 2023 for companies around the world. It said the deal could bring in an extra $150 billion in tax revenues per year. However, implementation of the treaty will need to be ratified via a two-thirds majority in the evenly divided US Senate, as well as needing to pass in domestic legislation in each of the signed countries.[185][186][187]
Debt ceiling crisis
On July 23, 2021, Yellen sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders, urged lawmakers to increase or suspend the nation's debt limit as soon as possible before it will hit its statutory limit on Aug. 1, and government will be unable to pay its bills. She warned Congress that failure to meet those obligations would cause "irreparable harm" to the U.S. economy, and Treasury Department would begin taking “extraordinary measures” to prevent the United States from a government shutdown or even a debt default.[188][189]
On September 19, 2021, Yellen, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, called to address debt ceiling with bipartisan support otherwise, sometime in October, Treasury exhausts its cash reserves which would trigger a historic financial crisis and "permanently" weaken America.[190][191] After Congress adopted a short-term debt-ceiling bill to raise the country's borrowing into early December, Yellen said that it is imperative that lawmakers act with responsibility and provides longer-term certainty for the government.[192] On November 1, 2021, Yellen expresses willingness to consider solutions to debt crisis without GOP support if necessary, using a budget procedure of reconciliation as viable alternative.[193]
On December 16, 2021, President Biden signed a debt ceiling increase into law, preventing the first-ever U.S. default, a day after the Treasury's previously estimated deadline to address the issue. Congressional legislation expected to allow the government to cover its financial obligations beyond 2022 midterm elections was passed in a nearly party-line vote.[194][195]
Digital Assets Regulation
On April 7, 2022, at American University's Kogod School of Business Center for Innovation, Yellen addressed for the first time growing impact of digital assets on the American economy, laying out a strategy she said will encourage "responsible innovation" to safeguard national security interests and our planet, and protect vulnerable people. She highlighted the extreme divergence of perceptions about cryptocurrency and other blockchain-based technologies, but arguing that principled approach should be focused on risks, as well as increased government oversight and research on the matter, while remaining wherever possible "tech neutral." Yellen outlined policy objectives and lessons that apply to the navigation of emerging technologies, which includes "first, U.S. financial system benefits from responsible innovation; second, it's often society's vulnerable who suffer most in economic crisis when regulation is not moving at the same pace as innovation; third, regulation should focus on activities and risk and activities, not technology; fourth, sovereign money is the core of a functioning financial system; fifth, it'll take thoughtful public and private dialogue between various groups to move forward."[196][197][198][199]
Yellen also announced plans for a government version of a stablecoin; the administration is studying the possibility of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), or digital dollar, while taking into consideration the impact of a CBDC on monetary policy, national security and international trade, as well as its utility for consumers. Solving such problems are "engineering challenge that would require years of development, not months," she said.[196][200]
Comments on Roe v. Wade overturning
On May 10, 2022, during a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Yellen made comments on economic consequences of Roe v. Wade overturning after a leaked draft majority opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization showed the Supreme Court poised to overrule its previous decisions that legalized abortion in the United States. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) asked what reversing the landmark ruling would mean economically for the country; Yellen responded, "I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades." She also said that keeping women from accessing abortions "increases their odds of living in poverty or need for public assistance".[201]
Economic philosophy
Yellen is widely considered to be a "dove" on monetary policy (i.e., more concerned with unemployment than with inflation) and as such generally favoring lower, rather than higher, Federal Reserve interest rates.[202][203][204] However, on fiscal policy, publications often referred to her as "somewhat" of a deficit hawk.[204][205][206] Prior to the COVID-19 recession, she expressed concern about the U.S. fiscal path, especially on U.S. debt;[204] in 2018, Yellen said, "If I had a magic wand, I would raise taxes and cut retirement spending"; the following year, she again suggested that she favored both raising revenue and making changes to the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programs to control spending.[204] In September 2021, at a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Yellen lends support to effort for complete removal of the debt ceiling, arguing that the borrowing cap is "very destructive" and poses unnecessary threat to the American economy.[207][208]
She has supported tighter financial regulation[204][209] to reduce systemic risks arising from vulnerabilities in the financial system.[204] As chair of the Group of 30 Working Group on Climate Change and Finance, she addressed climate risks, supporting a phase-in carbon pricing to accelerate a shift to net zero carbon emissions.[204]
Yellen is a Keynesian economist and has been described as a "Keynesian to her fingertips"; during the Great Recession, she "warned against an over-hasty removal of stimulus"; "insisted that the Fed pay as much attention to unemployment as to inflation"; and "believes the state has a duty to tackle poverty and inequality".[210][209] In April 1999, Yellen presented a speech at a reunion of the Yale graduate economics department that was titled "Yale Economics in Washington," and described her views on the Keynesian economics in policymaking. She claimed that while most economists "appreciate the role of markets and incentives," Yalies more often than others can see when they aren't working properly and greater concern for policies to remedy them, advising policy makers to have the knowledge and ability to improve macroeconomic outcomes.[211][18] When her appointment as treasury secretary was announced in December 2020, Yellen was viewed by Wall Street "as a Treasury secretary who will push hard for expansionary policies aimed at boosting growth, profits and share prices", although the ability of Yellen to push through her preferred fiscal policies was seen as likely to be constrained by congressional gridlock.[209]
Honors and awards
Yellen has received numerous honors in recognition of her career in academia and politics. These include:
Scholastic
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1986–1987 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Guggenheim Fellowship[212] |
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2000–2006 | Yale Corporation | Alumni Fellow[213] |
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2003–2004 | Western Economic Association International | President[214] |
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2004–2005 | American Economic Association | Vice President[215]
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2013–present | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley Fellow[216] |
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2020–2021 | American Economic Association | President[217] |
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May 25, 1998 | Brown University | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[218] | Yes[219] |
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May 27, 2000 | Bard College | Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)[220] | No |
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May 21, 2014 | New York University | Doctor of Commercial Science (DCSc)[221] | Yes[222] |
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May 15, 2015 | London School of Economics | Doctor of Science (DSc)[223] | No |
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May 15, 2015 | Yale University | Doctor of Social Science (DSSc)[224] | No |
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November 19, 2015 | University of Warwick | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[225] | No |
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December 19, 2016 | University of Baltimore | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[226] | Yes[227] |
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June 5, 2019 | Tel Aviv University | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)[228] | No |
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December 15, 2019 | University of Michigan | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[229] | No |
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May 17, 2021 | University of Pennsylvania | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[230] | No |
Memberships and fellowships
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1999–2010 | National Bureau of Economic Research | Research Associate (Monetary Economics)[231] |
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2001–present | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Member[232] |
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2002–2010 | Economists for Peace and Security | Trustee[233] |
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2005–present | Council on Foreign Relations | Member[28] |
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2009–present | Group of Thirty | Senior Member[234] |
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2012–present | American Economic Association | Distinguished Fellow[235] |
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2014–present | Econometric Society | Fellow[236] |
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2015–present | National Association for Business Economics | NABE Fellow[237] |
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2016–present | British Academy | Honorary Fellow[238] |
Awards
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May 26, 1997 | Yale University | Wilbur Cross Medal[239] |
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October 11, 2010 | National Association for Business Economics | Adam Smith Award[240] |
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January 22, 2015 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Elizabeth Blackwell Award[241] |
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May 27, 2016 | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | Radcliffe Medal[242] |
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May 5, 2017 | Brown University | The President's Medal[243] |
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November 7, 2017 | Institute of Government and Public Affairs | The Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government[244]
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February 2, 2019 | University of California, Santa Cruz | The Foundation Medal[245] |
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March 20, 2019 | Chief Executive Leadership Institute | The Legend in Leadership Award[246] |
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September 21, 2019 | Brandeis International Business School | Dean's Medal[247] |
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October 10, 2019 | Truman Library Institute | Truman Medal for Economic Policy[248] |
Rankings
Publisher | Listicle | Year(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Barron's | 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance | 2020 | Placed | [249] |
2021 | Placed | [250] | ||
Bloomberg Markets | 50 Most Influential | 2012 | Placed | [251] |
2013 | Placed | [252] | ||
2014 | Placed | [253] | ||
2015 | 1st | [254] | ||
2016 | 8th | [255] | ||
Forbes | Forbes list of the world's most powerful people | 2014 | 6th | [256] |
2015 | 7th | [257] | ||
2016 | 6th | [258] | ||
Forbes list of the world's 100 most powerful women | 2014 | 2nd | [259] | |
2015 | 4th | [260] | ||
2016 | 3rd | [261] | ||
2021 | 39th | [262] | ||
Global Finance | The Central Banker Report Cards | 2015 | A- | [263] |
2016 | A- | [264] | ||
2017 | A | [265] | ||
Time | Time 100 | 2014 | Placed | [266] |
2015 | Placed | [267] | ||
2017 | Placed | [268] |
Other recognition
- In March 2018, The Janet L. Yellen professorship was endowed by Charles D. Ellis at the Yale School of Management, named in honor of Yellen. Professor Andrew Metrick has been invested as the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management at the School.[269]
- In December 2018, Federal Reserve Board presented an annual Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Community Development to recognize the exemplary work of Federal Reserve System staff, and intended as honor of former chair Yellen's commitment to public service.[270] Ariel Cisneros of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, has been named the first recipient of the newly created Award.[271]
Personal life
Yellen is married to George Akerlof, an economist who is a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate.[272] Yellen and Akerlof first crossed paths at the Fed in the fall of 1977 and wedded in June 1978, less than a year after meeting.[22] They have one child, a son named Robert, who was born in 1981. Robert Akerlof, an economist by training himself, earned a bachelor degree in economics and mathematics, summa cum laude with special distinction, from Yale in 2003; and received a PhD in economics from Harvard in 2009, where he was a presidential scholar.[273] He is an associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick.[273] Yellen and Akerlof have often collaborated on research, including topics such as poverty, unemployment and a paper on the costs of out-of-wedlock childbearing.[22] One of their most talked-about papers at Berkeley, on why lower wages do not always lead to higher employment, came from the personal experience of hiring a nanny for the first time.[274] Yellen says Akerlof has been her biggest intellectual influence.[274] Both frequently state that their lone disagreement is that she is a bit more supportive of free trade than he is.[24][22]
Yellen has an estimated net worth of $20 million, accrued from stock holdings, speaking engagements and various government and academic positions. In February 2021, she divested holdings in corporations including Pfizer, ConocoPhillips and AT&T, among others when appointed to public office at U.S. Treasury.[275][276]
Yellen is a philatelist, having reported a collection of postage stamps valued between $15,000 and $50,000 in her OGE financial disclosures released in 2014 and 2021.[277][278][279]
In popular culture
"Who's Yellen Now?" is a song[280] by musician Dessa, commissioned by Marketplace,[281] following the joking suggestion by then President-elect Biden that Lin-Manuel Miranda should write a Hamiltonesque musical about Yellen, reflecting the historic nature of her nomination as nation's first female secretary of the Treasury, on December 1, 2020.[282][283]
On the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, Yellen has been parodied by actress Kate McKinnon since 2021.[284][285]
Selected works
Books
- Akerlof, George A.; Yellen, Janet L., eds. (October 31, 1986). Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511559594. ISBN 978-0-521-31284-4.
- Blinder, Alan S.; Yellen, Janet L. (2001). The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s. New York: The Century Foundation Press. ISBN 0-87078-467-6. OCLC 47018413.
Articles
- Adams, William James; Yellen, Janet L. (August 1976). "Commodity Bundling and the Burden of Monopoly". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 90 (3): 475–498. doi:10.2307/1886045. JSTOR 1886045.
- Akerlof, George A.; Yellen, J. L. (January 1985). "A Near-Rational Model of the Business Cycle, with Wage and Price Inertia". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 100: 823–838. doi:10.1093/qje/100.Supplement.823. ISSN 0033-5533.
- Akerlof, George A.; Yellen, Janet L. (May 1990). "The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 105 (2): 255–283. doi:10.2307/2937787. JSTOR 2937787.
See also
- List of female United States Cabinet members
- List of people who have held multiple United States Cabinet-level positions
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External links
Official
- Biography at the United States Department of the Treasury
- Biography at the Federal Reserve
- Clinton White House biography (archived)
- Expert profile at the Brookings Institution
- Faculty profile at the Haas School of Business
- Faculty profile at University of California, Berkeley
Other
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Profile and papers at Research Papers in Economics
- Janet Yellen collected news and commentary at The Guardian