James Morley is a Professor of Economics and Associate Dean (Research) of the Business School at the University of New South Wales. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 1999. Before moving to Australia in 2010, he was a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis (1999-2010) and a Research Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2004-2010). He is currently an Academic Fellow at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (2014-) and has held a number of visiting positions at policy institutions, including the Bank of Canada, Bank Negara Malaysia, and the Bank for International Settlements Asian Office in Hong Kong. He is also a former President of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (2011-2014) and serves in editorial roles for the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, and The Economic Record. His research has been published in many top journals and focuses on the empirical analysis of business cycles, stabilization policy, and sources of persistent changes in macroeconomic and financial variables.