James Harold Stock (born December 24, 1955) is an American economist, professor of economics, and vice provost for climate and sustainability at

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. He is co-author of ''Introduction to Econometrics'', a leading undergraduate textbook, and co-editor of the ''

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''. Stock served as a Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007 to 2009 and as a member of

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from 2013 to 2014.

Academic career

Stock graduated with a

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in physics in 1978 from

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. He then went to the

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and completed his

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in Statistics in 1982 and

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in Economics in 1983.

Research

His research areas include macroeconomic forecasting,

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, 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 Business cycles are intervals of Economic expansion, expansion followed by recession in economic activity. These changes have implications for the welfare of the broad population as well as for private institutions. Typically business cycles are ...

and the impact of changes in monetary policy on that evolution. He is a member of various professional boards, including the

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's Business Cycle Dating Committee and the Academic Advisory Board of the

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Notes

Books

Stock has published the following books: * ''Introduction to Econometrics.''

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(2003, 2007) (with Mark W. Watson). * ''Introduction to Econometrics: Brief Edition.'' Addison Wesley Longman (2007) (with Mark W. Watson).

External links

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