Edward C. Prescott
Economist, Academic
1940 –
Who is Edward C. Prescott?
Edward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". This research was primarily conducted while both Kydland and Prescott were affiliated with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the IDEAS/RePEc rankings, he is the 19th most widely cited economist in the world today. In August 2014, Prescott was appointed as an Adjunct Distinguished Economic Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
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- Born
- Dec 26, 1940
Glens Falls - Also known as
- Edward Christian Prescott
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Swarthmore College
- PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Economics
( - 1967) - Case Western Reserve University
- Employment
- Arizona State University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Minnesota
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Arizona
- Minneapolis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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