Author

James H. Stock

Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; faculty member, Harvard Kennedy School

James H. Stock is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and member of the faculty at Harvard Kennedy School. He received a M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His research includes applied macroeconomics, econometrics, and energy and environmental economics. He previously served as Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007-2009 and as Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2009-2012. In 2013-2014 he was Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, where his portfolio included macroeconomics and energy and environmental policy. He is currently Co-Editor of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity