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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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's Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2014.


Academic career

Stock graduated with a Bachelor of Science, B.S. in physics in 1978 from Yale University. He then went to the University of California-Berkeley and completed his Master of Science, M.S. in Statistics in 1982 and
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in Economics in 1983.


Research

His research areas include macroeconomic forecasting,
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 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 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 measured by examin ...
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 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.


Notes


Books

Stock has published the following books: * ''Introduction to Econometrics.'' Addison Wesley Longman (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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