Richard Donald Rogerson is an American economist who is currently the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs at

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, where he is also the Director of the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics.

Education

Rogerson graduated from the

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with a B.Sc. in physics in 1979 and received his Ph.D. in economics from the

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in 1984. At Minnesota, Rogerson's dissertation advisor was the future Nobel Laureate in Economics

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Career

Rogerson was an assistant professor of economics at

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from 1984 to 1987, an assistant professor of economics at

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from 1987 to 1988, and an assistant professor of economics at

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from 1988 to 1991. He was later an associate professor of economics at University of Minnesota from 1991 to 1997, after which he was a professor of economics at University of Pennsylvania from 1997 to 2001. In 2001, Rogerson was named the Rondthaler Professor of Economics at Arizona State University, where he was also Regents Professor from 2007 to 2011. Rogerson joined the faculty at Princeton University in 2011.

References

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