Noah Williams
Position title: CROWE Director; Curt and Sue Culver Professor of Economics
Email: nwilliam@ssc.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-3864
Noah Williams is the founding Director of the Center for Research On the Wisconsin Economy (CROWE) and Juli Plant Grainger Professor of Economics at UW-Madison, where has been on the faculty since 2008. A native of Menomonie, Wisconsin, he was previously on the faculty at Princeton University. His research focuses on macroeconomics, particularly monetary policy, social insurance programs, and financial markets. He has published widely, and co-authored several papers with Nobel Prize recipients Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent. A PhD and BA graduate of the University of Chicago, he is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a member of the Economic Advisors Roundtable organized by the WMC and WEDC. His research on state economies, which underlies the work of CROWE, has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.