Edward C. Prescott

Edward C. Prescott
Prescott in 2015
Born	(1940-12-26) December 26, 1940 (age 76) Glens Falls, New York, USA
Nationality	United States
Institution	Australian National University (ANU) Arizona State University Carnegie Mellon University Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Northwestern University University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania University of California, Santa Barbara University of Chicago New York University
School or tradition	New classical economics
Alma mater	Swarthmore College Case Western Reserve University Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisor	Michael C. Lovell
Doctoral students	Costas Azariadis Gary Hansen Finn Kydland José Víctor Ríos-Rull V. V. Chari Fernando Alvarez
Influences	Morris H. DeGroot Robert Lucas, Jr. John Muth
Influenced	Edward Green Rajnish Mehra
Contributions	Real Business Cycle theory Time consistency in economic policy
Awards	Nobel Prize in Economics (2004)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Edward Christian Prescott (born December 26, 1940) is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". This research was primarily conducted while both Kydland and Prescott were affiliated with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the IDEAS/RePEc rankings, he is the 19th most widely cited economist in the world today. In August 2014, Prescott was appointed as an Adjunct Distinguished Economic Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia.

Prescott was born in Glens Falls, New York, to Mathilde Helwig Prescott and William Clyde Prescott. In 1962, he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College, where he was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He then received a master's degree from Case Western Reserve University in operations research in 1963, and a PhD in Economics at Carnegie Mellon University in 1967.

From 1966 to 1971, Prescott taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He then returned to Carnegie Mellon until 1980, when he moved to the University of Minnesota, where he taught until 2003. In 1978, he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, where he was named a Ford Foundation Research Professor. In the following year, he visited Northwestern University and stayed there until 1982. Since 2003, he has been teaching at Arizona State University.