Joe served as a senior vice president of the Bank from 2003 to 2004, as a vice president from 1999 to 2002, and as an assistant vice president from 1998 to 1999. During his tenure, he has headed the Research and Statistics Group’s Domestic Research and Research Support areas and has served as the Group’s senior administrative officer.

In August 1996, Joe joined the Bank as a research officer in Domestic Research. Previously, he was an associate professor of economics at Columbia University and Yale University as well as the Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Joe has published in a range of economic and business journals, including the American Economic Review (“Strikes and Holdouts in Wage Bargaining: Theory and Data,” with Peter Cramton, 1992) and the Journal of Political Economy (“The Structure of Local Public Finance and the Quality of Life,” with Joseph Gyourko, 1991). His work in scholarly volumes includes “Unions, Bargaining, and Strikes” (in International Handbook of Trade Unions, ed. J. T. Addison and C. Schnabel, 2003) and “Quality of Life and Environmental Comparisons” (with Joseph Gyourko and Matthew Kahn, in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, vol. 3, ed. P. Cheshire and E. Mills, 1999).

Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in political economy from the University of Missouri and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago.

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