Edward C. Prescott - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2004
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Edward C. Prescott

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2004
for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles
Together with: Finn E. Kydland
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
12/26/1940
place of birth
Glens Falls
date of death
11/6/2022
place of death
Paradise Valley
Lived
81 years

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educated at
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1967
  • Swarthmore College
  • Tepper School of Business
  • Princeton University
  • Glens Falls High School
  • Weatherhead School of Management
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Case Western Reserve University
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1980
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1992
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2008
doctoral student
  • José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
    • end time: 1990
  • V. V. Chari
  • Elizabeth Caucutt
  • Ayşe İmrohoroğlu
  • Beverly Lapham
  • Richard Donald Rogerson
  • Stephen L. Parente
  • Ricardo de O. Cavalcanti
  • Alexander Ueberfeldt
  • Scott Hakala
  • Sami Alpanda
  • Yuo-Jin (Eugene) Yun
  • Daria Zakharova
  • Igor Livshits
  • Shinichi Watanbe
  • Fernando Álvarez
  • Dirk Krueger
  • Jean-Pierre Danthine
  • Finn E. Kydland
  • Costas Azariadis
  • Javier Díaz-Giménez
  • Mark Huggett
  • Rodolfo E. Manuelli
  • Thomas F. Cooley
  • Ann Sherman
  • Rajnish Mehra
  • Hugo Andrés Hopenhayn
  • Terry J. Fitzgerald
  • Pedro Amaral
  • George Lo
  • Bruce C. Horning
  • Ronald A. Edwards
  • John C. Proctor
  • Joseph Y. C. Lin
  • Maria E. Muniagurria
  • Arilton Teixeira
  • Michael J. Meurer
  • Evridiki Tsounta
  • Jessica Tjornhom Donohue
  • Edward J. Green
  • Gerhard Glomm
  • Andreas Hornstein
  • James Schmitz
  • Andres Erosa
  • Allen Head
  • Gary D. Hansen
  • Ricardo Raineri
notable work
  • real business cycle theory
employer
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Arizona State University
  • University of Minnesota
field of work
  • economics
occupation
  • economist
  • university teacher
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