Professor John Muellbauer is a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Professor of Economics and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society. He has been a consultant to the Bank of England, the ECB, HM Treasury and the UK Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Board and the IMF and was a Wim Duisenberg Visiting Fellow at the ECB in 2012/13. His current research is supported by grants from the Open Society Institute.
On voxeu.org he has written on ‘what’s wrong with macro’, helicopter money, Eurobonds and the eurozone crisis, exchange rate pass-through, mortgage defaults, inflation forecasting and monetary policy lessons from Japan. His 1980 paper with Angus Deaton, “An Almost Ideal Demand System” in the American Economic Review was selected as one of the top twenty papers published in the first one hundred years of that journal.