Thomas Sargent
| Thomas J. Sargent | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born |
July 19, 1943 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution |
Hoover Institution University of Minnesota University of Chicago Stanford University New York University Singapore Management University |
| Field | Macroeconomics, monetary economics |
| Alma mater |
UC Berkeley, (BA) Harvard University, (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor |
John R. Meyer |
| Doctoral students |
Robert Litterman Martin Eichenbaum Felipe Montt Wayne Carroll Inbong Ha Paul O'Brien Andrew Atkeson Selu Imrohoroglu Ellen McGrattan Marco Bassetto Riccardo Colacito Sagiri Kitao Jun Nie Rüşdü Saracoğlu |
| Influences |
Robert Lucas, Jr. John Muth |
| Awards |
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (2011) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2011) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (2011)
Thomas John "Tom" Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist, who is currently the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics. As of 2014, he ranks fourteenth among the most cited economists in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011 together with Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".
Sargent graduated from Monrovia High School. He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, being the University Medalist as Most Distinguished Scholar in Class of 1964, and his PhD from Harvard in 1968, under supervision of John R. Meyer. Sargent's classmates at Harvard included Christopher A. Sims. He held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania (1970–71), University of Minnesota (1971–87), University of Chicago (1991–98), Stanford University (1998–2002) and Princeton University (2009), and is currently a Professor of Economics at New York University (since 2002). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1976. In 1983, Sargent was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and also the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 1987, a member of the Advisory Board of the Penn Institute for Economic Research at the University of Pennsylvania and distinguished term professor of the School of Economics at Singapore Management University since 2015.
...
Wikipedia