NBER profile: James H. Stock.

• Position: Harvard University - Brief article

Jim Stock is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Monetary Economics, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, and Asset Pricing. He is also a member of the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee.

Stock is currently the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy in the Economics Department at Harvard University, which he chaired from 2006-9. He previously served on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the University of California, Berkeley. Stock received his B.S. in Physics from Yale University, and an M.A. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Stock's recent research includes studies of the Great Moderation and changes in the U.S. business cycle, empirical methods for macroeconomics using very many time series, and econometric inference when identification is weak. He was...