

Carola Binder
Carola Binder is Deputy Chair of Graduate Studies and a macroeconomist and economic historian. Her research focuses on monetary policy and inflation expectations. She is the author of Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2024) and has published numerous articles on related topics.
Binder serves on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and as an associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Explorations in Economic History. She is a research associate in the Monetary Economics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center, and a member of the advisory panel of the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization. Before joining the School of Civic Leadership, she taught at Haverford College from 2015 to 2024.