James Harold Stock (born December 24, 1955) is an American economist, professor of economics, and vice provost for climate and sustainability at Harvard University. He is co-author of Introduction to Econometrics, a leading undergraduate textbook, and co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Stock served as a Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007 to 2009 and as a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2014.
James H. Stock | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 December 1955 |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Econometrics |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Alma mater | University of California-Berkeley Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas J. Rothenberg[1] |
| Doctoral students | Anna Mikusheva[2] |
| Influences | Clive Granger |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Academic career
editStock graduated with a B.S. in physics in 1978 from Yale University. He then went to the University of California-Berkeley and completed his M.S. in Statistics in 1982 and Ph.D. in Economics in 1983.
Research
editHis research areas include macroeconomic forecasting, monetary policy, and econometric methods for the analysis of economic time series data. His work includes an examination of the recent evolution of the US business cycle and the impact of changes in monetary policy on that evolution. He is a member of various professional boards, including the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee and the Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Notes
edit- ^ Identification and Inference for Econometric Models: Essays in Honor of Thomas Rothenberg edited by Donald W. K. Andrews and James H. Stock(Accessed September 2016)
- ^ "Anna Mikusheva's C.V." Archived from the original on 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ Who's Who in America 2008. 62. Vol 2, Marquis Who's Who LLC, New Providence 2007, ISSN 0083-9396, ISBN 978-0-8379-7011-0, ISBN 978-0-8379-7008-0 (Vol 2), p. 4350.
Books
editStock has published the following books:
- Introduction to Econometrics. Addison Wesley Longman (2003, 2007) (with Mark W. Watson).
- Introduction to Econometrics: Brief Edition. Addison Wesley Longman (2007) (with Mark W. Watson).