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== Career == From 1974 until his death he had been a professor in the Economics department at Columbia University; and from 2001 he had held Columbia's highest academic rank – [[University Professor]]. After completing his post-doctoral fellowship at the [[University of Chicago]] in 1957, he began teaching economics at [[Stanford University]], and then [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] during 1959–1961.<ref name="webapps" /> In 1961, he went on to staff the [[International Monetary Fund]]. Mundell returned to academics as professor of economics at the University of Chicago from 1966 to 1971, and then served as professor during summers at the [[Graduate Institute of International Studies]] in [[Geneva]] until 1975. In 1989, he was appointed to the post of Repap Professor of Economics at [[McGill University]].<ref name="Nobelprize"/><ref name="Robertmundell.net"/> In the 1970s, he laid the groundwork for the introduction of the [[euro]] through his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency forms for which he won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Economics. During this time he continued to serve as an economic adviser to the [[United Nations]], the IMF, the [[World Bank]], the [[European Commission]], the [[Federal Reserve Board]], the [[United States Department of Treasury]] and the governments of Canada and other countries. He was the Distinguished Professor-at-Large of [[The Chinese University of Hong Kong]]. His 1971 Princeton tract ''The dollar and the policy mix'' is credited with founding [[supply-side economics]] (Bartlett 1971, p 101). Among his major contributions are: * Theoretical work on [[optimum currency area]]s<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Robert Mundell and the Theoretical Foundation for the European Monetary Union|url=https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/54/vc121399|access-date=2021-04-06|website=IMF|language=en}}</ref> * Contributions to the development of the [[euro]]<ref name=":1" /> * Helped start the movement known as [[supply-side economics]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-05|title=Robert Mundell, the intellectual father of supply-side economics, is dead at 88|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/robert-mundell-intellectual-father-supply-side-economics-died|access-date=2021-04-06|website=Washington Examiner|language=en}}</ref> * Historical research on the operation of the [[gold standard]] in different eras * Predicted the [[inflation]] of the 1970s * [[Mundell–Fleming model]] * [[Mundell–Tobin effect]]
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