view original post(Lto R) John Leahy and Casey Mulligan
NBER Research Associates John Leahy and Casey Mulligan have been tapped for new roles in the Federal Reserve System and at the Small Business Administration, respectively. Leahy has been named the Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, a post he will take up at the start of 2026. He is the Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Policy, and current Department Chair, at the University of Michigan. He is a research associate in the Economic Fluctuations and Growth (EFG) and Monetary Economics (ME) programs at the NBER and has served as co-editor of the Macroeconomics Annual. Mulligan, who is currently on leave from the NBER, is serving as the Chief Counsel for Advocacy at the US Small Business Administration. He is a Professor of Economics in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, and a research associate in four NBER programs: EFG, Economics of Aging, ME, and Public Economics.
