Robert James Hodrick (born September 12, 1950), is a U.S. economist specialized in International Finance. AB, Princeton, 1972; PhD, University of Chicago, 1976.[1] Until 1983, he served as a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he worked jointly with Edward C. Prescott on business cycle, and developed the Hodrick–Prescott filter to distinguish trends from cyclical fluctuations. He taught at Northwestern University and joined Columbia University in 1996.

Robert J. Hodrick
Born (1950-09-12) September 12, 1950 (age 74)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldMonetary economics
InstitutionColumbia University
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Princeton University
Doctoral
advisor
Arnold Zellner
ContributionsHodrick–Prescott filter
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

References

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  1. ^ "Columbia Business School Directory : Detail : Robert+Hodrick". Archived from the original on 2010-06-23. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
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