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Charles Plosser
Born (1948-09-19) September 19, 1948 (age 76)
Birmingham, Alabama
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
InstitutionUniversity of Rochester
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Vanderbilt University
InfluencesRobert Lucas, Jr.
Edward C. Prescott
Thomas Sargent
ContributionsReal business cycles
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Charles Irving Plosser (born September 19, 1948) is a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia who served from August 1, 2006 to March 1, 2015.[1] [2] An academic macroeconomist, he is well known for his work on real business cycles, a term which he and John B. Long, Jr.[3] coined. Specifically, he wrote along with Charles R. Nelson in 1982[4] an influential work entitled "Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconomic Time Series" in which they dealt with the hypothesis of permanent shocks affecting the aggregate product (GDP).

Biography

Plosser was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Before joining the Philadelphia Fed, Plosser was for 12 years the Dean of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester and served concurrently as the school's John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy. He was also co-editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics for more than twenty years.

He earned Ph.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1976 and 1972, respectively, and a bachelor of engineering degree from Vanderbilt University in 1970. He is also a graduate of Indian Springs School in Indian Springs, Alabama.

See also

Selected bibliography

  • Charles R. Nelson and Charles I. Plosser, September, 1982. "Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconmic [sic] Time Series: Some Evidence and Implications," Journal of Monetary Economics, 10(2), pp. 139–162. Abstract.
  • John B. Long, Jr. and Charles I. Plosser, 1983. "Real Business Cycles" Journal of Political Economy, 91(1), pp. 39-69 (press +).
  • Robert G. King and Charles I. Plosser, 1984. "Money, Credit, and Prices in a Real Business Cycle," American Economic Review, 74(3), p p. 363-380. Reprinted in Finn E. Kydland, ed., 1995. Business Cycle Theory, pp. 136-55.
  • Robert G. King, Charles I. Plosser, and Sergio T. Rebelo, 1988. "Production, Growth, and Business Cycles: I. The Basic Neoclassical Model," Journal of Monetary Economics, 21(2-3), pp. 195–232. Abstract.
  • Charles I. Plosser, 1989. "Understanding Real Business Cycles," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3(3), pp. 51-77 (press +).

References

  1. ^ "Executive Leadership: Charles I. Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer", About the Fed, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia {{citation}}: |archive-url= requires |url= (help); line feed character in |title= at position 22 (help)
  2. ^ Jonathan Spicer (2015-03-02), "Philadelphia Fed names Patrick Harker as Plosser's successor", CNBC UPDATE, CNBC LLC
  3. ^ John B. Long faculty page, simon.rochester.edu webpage. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
  4. ^ Charles R. Nelson: Curriculum Vitae, econ.washington.edu webpage, October 2007. Retrieved 2012-11-16.

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