I am a Term Assistant Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. I also teach “The Financial System,” also called modern Money and Banking, at Economics Department, NYU Stern. In addition to my teaching commitments, I am a “Market Structure Research Fellow” at Jain Family Institute. In this fellowship, I examine the research from major financial institutions, monitor the shifts in financial market structures, and write about their implications for financial stability and the future of central banking. In the world of online teaching platforms, I can be found as an instructor for the “Introduction to Macroeconomics” course at the Outlier where I teach three chapters on International Finance, Economics of Money and Credit, and Central Banking.
Before joining Barnard College, I have been a lecturer of Economics at the UCLA Economics Department, a research economist in the International Finance and Macroeconomics research group at Milken Institute, Santa Monica, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), New York. I supervised undergraduate students and taught Money and Banking, Macroeconomic Theory, and Monetary Economics at UCLA. At Milken Institute, I investigated the post-crisis structural changes in the capital market as a result of macroprudential regulations. As a postdoctoral fellow, I worked closely with Prof. Perry Mehrling and studied his “Money View,” a framework that examines the realities of the modern monetary system based on the models of market microstructure. The central focus of the framework is liquidity. I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, UK, in empirical Macroeconomics in 2013.
My recent research lies at the intersection of Monetary Theory, and Financial Economics, with particular attention to liquidity and financial engineering. My research design is to apply the Money View, which synthesizes the modern features of our monetary and financial system, to examine the evolution of the financial market. I also write a weekly Money View Column for the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Economic Questions website. Moreover, I love teaching, and I love my students. I teach courses such as Monetary Economics, Central Banking, Money and Banking, Financial Economics, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics. I am excited about educating my students and debating ideas with them. I believe I have learned more from my students than from anyone else.
I can be reached via email <elham.saeidinezhad@gmail.com> , <esaeidin@barnard.edu>, <elham.saeidinezhad@stern.nyu.edu> , <elham.saeidinezhad@jfiresearch.org>, LinkedIn and Twitter <@elham_saeidi>