Robert King (economist)

Robert King
Born (1951-05-24) May 24, 1951 (age 73)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
Monetary economics
InstitutionBoston University
University of Virginia
University of Rochester
School or
tradition
New classical economics
Alma materBrown University
Doctoral
advisor
Herschel Grossman
William Poole
Harl Ryder
Doctoral
students
Gary Gorton
Sergio Rebelo
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Robert Graham King (born May 24, 1951) is an American macroeconomist. He is currently professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University, editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics, research consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Before that he was a professor at the University of Rochester and then at the University of Virginia.

King is married to another macroeconomist, Marianne Baxter.[citation needed]

King's work spans many areas, including business cycle theory and measurement, real business cycle theory, monetary policy, and economic growth.

Influential works

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  • Robert G. King; Sergio T. Rebelo (1999). "Resuscitating Real Business Cycles". Handbook of Macroeconomics. pp. 927–1007.
  • Marianne Baxter; Robert G. King (1999). "Measuring Business Cycles: Approximate Band-Pass Filters for Economic Time Series" (PDF). The Review of Economics and Statistics. 81 (4): 575–593. doi:10.1162/003465399558454. S2CID 57567299.
  • Michael Dotsey; Robert G. King; Alexander L. Wolman (1999). "State-Dependent Pricing and the General Equilibrium Dynamics of Money and Output". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 114 (2): 655–690. doi:10.1162/003355399556106.
  • Marvin Goodfriend; Robert G. King (1997). "The New Neoclassical Synthesis and the Role of Monetary Policy". National Bureau of Economic Research Macroeconomics Annual: 231–283.
  • Robert G. King; Ross Levine (1993). "Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might be Right". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 108 (3): 717–737. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.312.1744. doi:10.2307/2118406. JSTOR 2118406. S2CID 56259311.
  • Robert G. King; Sergio Rebelo (1993). "Transitional Dynamics and Economic Growth in Neoclassical Economies". American Economic Review. 83 (4): 908–931.
  • Marianne Baxter; Robert G. King (1993). "Fiscal Policy in General Equilibrium". American Economic Review. 83 (3): 315–334.
  • Robert G. King; Charles I. Plosser; Sergio T. Rebelo (1988). "Production, Growth and Business Cycles, I: The Basic Neo-classical Model". Journal of Monetary Economics. 21 (2–3): 195–232. doi:10.1016/0304-3932(88)90030-X.
  • Robert J. Barro; Robert G. King (1984). "Time-Separable Preferences and Intertemporal-Substitution Models of Business Cycles". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 99 (4): 817–839. doi:10.2307/1883127. JSTOR 1883127. S2CID 154292934.

See also

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