Paul Schmelzing
Current:
Assistant Professor of Finance, Boston College, 2022-
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2022-
contact: paul.schmelzing@bc.edu schmelzing@stanford.edu
One Bank visiting researcher, Bank of England, 2022-
"Eight centuries of global real interest rates, R-G, and the 'suprasecular' decline, 1311-2018", Bank of England Staff Working Paper 845, Jan. 2020.
JMP version (Feb. 2022). JMP appendices and replication kit.
(book version under contract, Yale University Press).
"Banking-Crisis interventions, 1257-2019" (with Andrew Metrick).
"Metrick-Schmelzing database" and full documentation (Sep. 2021). (NBER WP 29281)
new: an interview on real interest rates with Financial History Magazine.
recent: a public discussion on inflation and rates, Jul 6.
recent: NBER SI IFMDS, Jul 13.
recent: a discussion on interest rate trends with Richard Sylla and Jim Grant.
Education, previous academic appointments
Postdoctoral associate, Finance group, Yale SOM, 2019-2022
PhD, History, Harvard University, 2013-2019
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2017-2019
Visiting researcher, Bank of England, 2016-2021
Research assistant, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, 2015-2016
BSc, Economic History, London School of Economics, 2010-2013
References/Committee:
Barry Eichengreen
Niall Ferguson (chair)
Charles S. Maier
Andrew Metrick
Kenneth S. Rogoff