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CURRICULUM VITAE (January 2014) RICHARD SYLLA OFFICE Dept. of Economics, KMC 8-65 Stern School of Business New York University 44 W. 4th Street New York, NY 10012-1126 (212) 998-0869 Fax (212) 995-4218 email [email protected] PERSONAL DATA Born at Harvey, Illinois Married, two children, six grandchildren EDUCATION A.B. Summa Cum Laude, Harvard University, 1962. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 1962-63 (Rotary scholar). A.M., Harvard University, 1965. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969. ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS Current Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of Economics, New York University, 1990 - . Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1983- . Previous Teaching Fellow in Economics and Social Studies, 1967-68, Harvard University. Professor of Economics and Business, 1968-90; Associate head, Division of Economics and Business, 1987-89, North Carolina State University. Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard, Summer 1969. Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, UK, 1975-present (in residence 1975-76). Editor, Journal of Economic History, 1978-1984. Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1983. Visiting Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 1988 HONOR SOCIETIES Omicron Delta Epsilon, Harvard, elected 1961. Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard, elected 1962. Wake County (North Carolina) Phi Beta Kappa Association, 1968-90. Executive Committee, 1971-72 1987-88; Vice President, 1972-73; President, 1973-74; Membership Chairman, 1983-84, Executive Committee, 1987-88. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, OFFICES, ETC. American Economic Association. Southern Economic Association. Elected Vice President, 1982. Economic History Association. Nominating Committee, 1970-71; Program Committee, 1973-74; Ex officio trustee, 1978-84. Elected trustee 1984-88. Elected Vice President, 1987-88. Investment Committee, 1990- 95, 1999- . President-elect, 1999-2000. President, 2000-2001. Economic History Society (UK). Social Science History Association. Business History Conference. Elected trustee, 1991-94, 2002-04. President-elect, 2004-05. President, 2005-06. Cliometrics Society. Elected trustee, 1997-2000; elected chair of board of trustees, 1998-99, 1999-2000; Fellow, 2013. European Economic History Association. Trustee, Museum of American Finance (Smithsonian Affiliate), 2002- ; Vice Chairman of Board of Trustees, 2007-10; Chairman, 2010- . Member, Academic Advisory Board, European Association for Banking and Financial History, 2005-09. FELLOWSHIPS, PROFESSIONAL AWARDS, AND GRANTS Harvard College Honorary Scholarship, 1958-62. Rotary International Scholarship, 1962-63. Harvard Graduate Fellowship, 1963-65; Teaching Fellowship, 1964-68; Economic History Fellowship, 1965-68. Arthur H. Cole Prize, Economic History Association, 1970. National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1975-76. Mini Grant for Teaching Effectiveness, North Carolina State University, 1977. ACLS Overseas Travel Grant, 1978 (United Kingdom), 1982 (Hungary). National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Fellowship, 1980. National Bureau of Economic Research, research grants, 1982-present. National Science Foundation grant, "Economics of State and Local Government...1790-1980," 1985-87. (Administered by National Bureau of Economic Research; $132,840.) National Science Foundation grant, "Economics of State and Local Government...1790-1980," 1987-89. (Administered by National Bureau of Economic Research; $140,000.) National Science Foundation grant, "Economics of State and Local Government...1790-1980," 1989-91. (Administered by National Bureau of Economic Research; $169,456.) National Science Foundation grant, "Economics of State and Local Government...1790-1980," 1991-94. (Administered by National Bureau of Economic Research; $232,609.) Citibank Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stern School, NYU, May 1994. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, "Financial Innovation in U.S. History,", 1995-97. (Administered by National Bureau of Economic Research; 2 $114,000.) National Science Foundation grant, "America's First Securities Markets, 1787-1836: Emergence, Development, Integration," 1998-2002. (Administered by NBER; $182,246.) Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard, 2003-04. Berkley Center/Kauffman Foundation research grant, Stern, NYU, 2005- NYU University Research Challenge Fund grant, 2006-06. National Science Foundation grant, “U.S. Corporate Development, 1801-1860,” 2008-10. (Administered by National Bureau of Economic Research; $297,363.) Lifetime Achievement Award, Business History Conference, March 2011. Appointed member of Federal Reserve System’s Centennial Advisory Council, Fall 2011. American Academy of Arts & Sciences, elected Fellow, 2012 Cliometric Society, elected Fellow, 2013 PUBLICATIONS, AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES A. BOOKS The American Capital Market, 1846-1914 (New York: Arno Press, 1975). Evolution of the American Economy: Growth, Welfare, and Decision-Making (New York: Basic Books, 1980). Co-authors: Sidney Ratner and James H. Soltow. Second edition (New York: Macmillan, 1993). A History of Interest Rates, 3rd ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991), Italian translation, 1994; 3rd ed. revised (1996); 4th ed. (John Wiley & Sons, 2005); Korean translation, 2011. Co-author: Sidney Homer. Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1991). Co-editor: Gianni Toniolo. Anglo-American Financial Systems: Institutions and Markets in the Twentieth Century (Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995). Co-editor: Michael D. Bordo The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Co-editors: Richard Tilly and Gabriel Tortella. Translated into Chinese and published in China, 2002. History of Corporate Finance: Development of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003), 6 vols. Robert E. Wright, ed., Richard Sylla, advisory ed. and author of preface, vol. 1, ix-xi. A compilation of classic historical works on corporate finance. Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Co-editor: Douglas A. Irwin. 3 B. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS "Finance and Capital in the United States, 1850-1900," Journal of Economic History, (December 1967), 621-24. "La `New Economic History'--Metodi, Obiettivi, Limiti," Quaderni Storici delle Marche, 11 (Maggio-Agosto 1969), 229-264 (with Gianni Toniolo). Republished in Lo Sviluppo Economico Italiano 1861-1940, G. Toniolo, ed. (Roma-Bari: Laterza, 1973), 41-70. "Federal Policy, Banking Market Structure, and Capital Mobilization in the United States, 1863-1913," Journal of Economic History, 29 (December 1969), 657-686. Reprinted in Robert Whaples and Dianne C. Betts, eds., Historical Perspectives on the American Economy (1995), 482-508. "The United States, 1863-1913," in Rondo Cameron, ed., Banking and Economic Development: Some Lessons of History (New York, Oxford University Press, 1972), Chapter VIII, 232-262. "American Banking and Growth in the Nineteenth Century: A Partial View of the Terrain," Explorations in Economic History, 9 (Winter 1971-72), 197-227. "Seeking Optimum Profit Production Decisions," The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 58 (January 1974), 133-138 (with Victor V. Cavaroc). "Forgotten Men of Money: Private Bankers in Early U.S. History," Journal of Economic History, 36 (March 1976), 173-188. "Financial Intermediaries in Economic History: Quantitative Research on the Seminal Hypotheses of Davis and Gerschenkron," in R. Gallman, ed., Recent Developments in the Study of Business and Economic History (Greenwich CN: JAI Press, 1977), 55-80. "Small-Business Banking in the United States, 1780-1920," in Stuart Bruchey, ed., Small Business and American Life: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980). "The Changing Nature of American Public Debt, 1690-1835," in La Dette Publique aux XVlle et XIXe Siecles son Developpement sur le Plan Local, Regional et National (with John A. James), Colloque International- International Colloquium, Spa 12-16 IX 1978 Actes-Handelingen (Brussels, 1980), 243-272. "Monetary Innovation in America," Journal of Economic History, 42 (March 1982), 21-30. "Monetary Innovation and Crises in American Economic History," in Paul Wachtel, ed., Crises in the Economic and Financial Structure (Lexington MA: D.C. Heath, 1982), 23-40. 4 "American Banks and the Finance of Industry, 1880-1920: Perspectives on the Visible Hand," Eighth International Congress of Economic History, in V.I. Boykin, ed., Transformation of Bank Structures in the Industrial Period (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1982), 43-51. Reprinted in Rondo Cameron, ed., Financing Industrialization (Cambridge: Edward Elgar, 1992), vol. 2, 253-61. "Early American Banking: The Significance of the Corporate Form,"Business and Economic History, Second Series, 14 (1985), 105-123. "Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977," in Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds., Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 819-68. "Banks and State Public Finance in the New Republic, 1790-1860,"Journal of Economic History 47 (June 1987), 391-403. Co-authors:
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