Thursday, February 20, 2014

Yellen's husband George Akerlof resigns from academic unit

George Akerlof, the husband of the new Federal Reserve Chief Janet Yellen, says he has resigned from an academic advisory board funded by a large Swiss financial institution UBS. 

Mr Akerlof is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, and in a statement says he is stepping down as a member of the advisory board of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society, located at the University of Zurich.