John H. Cochrane.

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John H. Cochrane directs the NBER's Program on Asset Pricing and is the Sigmund E. Edelstone Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Chicago. He began his affiliation with the NBER in 1988 as a Faculty Research Fellow, was promoted to Research Associate in the Asset Pricing and Economic Fluctuations and Growth Programs in 1994, and became Director of the Asset Pricing Program in 1999.

Cochrane received an S.B. in physics from MIT in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. He joined the University of Chicago's economics department in 1985 as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1990, and became a professor in the University's Graduate School of Business in 1994. He received his named professorship in 1997.

In addition to his teaching and research, Cochrane is Editor of...