Joe Peek

Joe Peek is a vice president and economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department, where he heads the finance section. He also is a research associate at Columbia University's Center on the Japanese Economy and Business. Peek's current research interests are in financial stability, macro-prudential regulation, international banking, Japanese banking problems, and monetary policy. He earned his BA in mathematics and MA in economics from Oklahoma State University and his PhD in economics from Northwestern University.

Peek returned to the research department in 2012, having been a visiting scholar at the Boston Fed from 1985 to 2000. He was a fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Center for Financial Research from 2004 to 2005. From 2000 to 2011, he held the Gatton Chair in International Banking and Financial Economics at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics. He has also been a professor of economics at Boston College and was a visiting professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1992 and 1994.