James Stock

Focus areas: empirical macroeconomics, energy and environmental policy, monetary policy, and econometric methods

James H. Stock is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and member of the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. He received a M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His research areas are empirical macroeconomics, energy and environmental policy, monetary policy, and econometric methods. He is Co-Editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and is a coauthor with Mark Watson of a leading introductory econometrics textbook and is a member of various professional boards, including the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee. He previously served as Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007-2009, as Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2009-2012, and as Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2013-2014.

Education

• PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• MS in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley