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Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.
Senior Fellow
Gerald O’Driscoll is a widely quoted expert on banking and monetary policy. Previously the director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the Heritage Foundation, O’Driscoll was senior editor of the annual Index of Economic Freedom, co-published by Heritage and The Wall Street Journal. He has also served as vice president and director of policy analysis at Citigroup, and vice president and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He has also served as staff director of the Congressionally mandated Meltzer Commission on international financial institutions. He is widely published widely in leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on national radio and television, including Fox Business News, CNBC and Bloomberg. With a dozen years experience as a university professor, O’Driscoll speaks regularly at academic conferences and universities. O’Driscoll holds a B.A. in Economics from Fordham University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.
Media Contact: 202-789-5200
To Book a Speaking Engagement: 202-789-5226
Books and Book Chapters
2003 Index of Economic Freedom, with Edwin J. Feulner and Mary Anastasia O’Grady
2002 Index of Economic Freedom, with Kim R. Holmes and Mary Anastasia O’Grady
2001 Index of Economic Freedom with Kim R. Holmes and Melanie Kirkpatrick
2000 Index of Economic Freedom with Kim R. Holmes and Melanie Kirkpatrick
The Economics of Time and Ignorance (1985), co-authored with Mario J. Rizzo
Cato Studies
"Asset Bubbles and Their Consequences," Briefing Paper no. 103, May 20, 2008.
"Property Rights: The Key to Economic Development," by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. and W. Lee Hoskins, Policy Analysis no. 482, August 7, 2003.
Articles and Newsletters
"Money, Prices, and Bubbles," Cato Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, Fall 2011.
""Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking" by Laurence J. Kotlikoff Reviewed for Cato Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, Fall 2010.
"Money and the Present Crisis," Chapter 13, Cato Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, Winter 2009.
"The Case for Market-Based Regulation," with Lee Hoskins, Cato Journal 26 (3): Fall 2006.
"Theories of Financial Disturbance: An Examination of Critical Theories of Finance from Adam Smith to the Present Day," Reviewed for EH.NET by Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr.
Opinion and Commentary
"The Federal Reserve's Covert Bailout of Europe," The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2011
"Why We Can't Escape the Eurocrisis," The Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2011
"The Fed Surprises," Huffington Post, August 11, 2011
"Why the Fed Is Not Independent," The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2011
"Barney Frank's Latest Bad Idea," The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2011
Events
"29th Annual Monetary Conference," November 16, 2011 [Conference]
"28th Annual Monetary Conference," November 18, 2010 [Conference]
"21st Annual Monetary Conference: The Future of the Euro," November 20, 2003 [Conference]
Multimedia
Gerald P. O'Driscoll discusses the FOMC meeting on BBC's The World Today (January 26, 2012) [Media Highlights - Radio, 08:54]
Gerald P. O'Driscoll discusses the FOMC meeting on Yahoo! News (January 25, 2012) [Media Highlights - TV, 04:57]
Gerald P. O'Driscoll discusses the FOMC meeting on Fox Business Live (January 25, 2012) [Media Highlights - TV, 02:47]
Credible Commitment and the Euro (November 23, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 08:01]
Panel 1: Rethinking the Global Fiat Money System with Mary Anastasia O'Grady, George Melloan and Benn Steil (November 16, 2011) [Events, 49:05]
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