Honors and Awards
Yellen received the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale in 1997, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown in 1998, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Bard College in 2000.
In October 2010, she received the prestigious Adam Smith Award from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).
In 2012, she was elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
In September 2012, she was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.
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