Randall Wright
| Randall Wright | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 4, 1956 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Institution | Wisconsin School of Business |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition |
New Monetarist Economics |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
| Doctoral advisor |
Neil Wallace |
| Doctoral students |
Paul J. Zak |
| Contributions | Matching theory |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Randall D. Wright (born August 4, 1956) is a Canadian academic macroeconomist who advanced the fields of monetary economics and labor economics through his role in the development of matching theory.
Wright obtained a B.A. in Economics at the University of Manitoba in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1986. He was awarded an honorary M.A. by the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. His first position was as an Assistant Professor at Cornell from 1984 to 1987. He then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he became a full professor in 1994, later becoming the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Economics. In 2009, Wright accepted a position in the Economics Department at University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is at the same time the Ray B. Zemon Chair in Liquid Assets in the Wisconsin School of Business' Department of Finance, Investment and Banking.
In addition to his academic position, Wright is a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Bank of Canada, NBER, and Panthéon-Assas University. Wright was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1997.
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