Robert Graham King (born May 24, 1951) is an American

macroeconomist Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix ''makro-'' meaning "large" + ''economics'') is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. For example, using interest rates, taxes, and ...

. He is currently professor at the Department of Economics at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

, editor of the '' Journal of Monetary Economics'', research consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before that he was a professor at the University of Rochester and then at the University of Virginia. King is married to another macroeconomist, Marianne Baxter. King's work spans many areas, including business cycle theory and measurement,

real business cycle theory Real business-cycle theory (RBC theory) is a class of new classical macroeconomics models in which business-cycle fluctuations are accounted for by real (in contrast to nominal) shocks. Unlike other leading theories of the business cycle, RBC the ...

monetary policy Monetary policy is the policy adopted by the monetary authority of a nation to control either the interest rate payable for very short-term borrowing (borrowing by banks from each other to meet their short-term needs) or the money supply, often a ...

, and

economic growth Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year. Statisticians conventionally measure such growth as the percent rate of ...

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Robert King's web site at Boston University

The Journal of Monetary Economics
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