{"id":124,"date":"2017-09-27T20:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-economics\/facultystaff\/peteferderer\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T15:51:13","slug":"peteferderer","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/facultystaff\/peteferderer\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Peter Ferderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"download\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/587\/2022\/02\/CV_Ferderer_2022.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/faculty-peteferderer\/research-2\/\"><span class=\"download\">Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/faculty-peteferderer\/courses-3\/\">Courses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Ferderer\u2019s research focuses on the implications of cognition and the formation of beliefs on economic behavior.\u00a0 For example, his recent paper, \u201cHas herding undermined the collective wisdom embodied in the Blue Chip consensus?\u201d argues that professional forecasters did not anticipate the Great Recession because they have become less independent and are using less diverse predictive models.\u00a0 Professor Ferderer has also written on the historical development of 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> century financial markets, the Great Depression, and the role of oil in the macroeconomy.\u00a0 He has published articles in <em>The Journal of Economic History<\/em>, <em>Journal of Money, Credit, &amp; Banking<\/em>, <em>Journal of Macroeconomics<\/em> and other journals. \u00a0Professor Ferderer has received grants from the Mellon Foundation and Economic History Association, was a visiting scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, and served as President of the Minnesota Economic Association and Vice-President of the Midwest Economic Association.\u00a0 He teaches Behavioral and Experimental Economics, World Economic History, Intermediate Macroeconomics and Principles of Economics.<\/p>\n<p>BA: University of St. Thomas, 1983<br \/>\nMA: Washington University in St. Louis, 1985<br \/>\nPhD: Washington University in St. Louis, 1989<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"template":"","class_list":["post-124","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/124\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}