James Harold Stock is an American

United States

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 economist and a professor of economics at Harvard University

Harvard University

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Academic career

Stock graduated with a B.S.

Bachelor of Science

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 in physics in 1978 from Yale University

Yale University

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. He then went to the University of California-Berkeley and completed his M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in 1982 and Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in 1983.

Research

His research areas include macroeconomic forecasting, monetary policy, and econometric methods for the analysis of economic time series data. His work includes an examination of the recent evolution of the U.S. business cycle and the impact of changes in monetary policy on that evolution. He is a member of various professional boards, including the Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Books

Stock has published the following books:

• Introduction to Econometrics. Addison Wesley Longman (2003, 2007) (with Mark W. Watson
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• Introduction to Econometrics: Brief Edition. Addison Wesley Longman (2007) (with Mark W. Watson).