NBER Profile: John Y. Campbell.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research

John Y. Campbell, the director of the NBER's Program on Asset Pricing, grew up in Oxford, England, the son of a British father and an American mother. He received a B.A. from Oxford in 1979 and then moved to the United States to attend graduate school, earning his Ph.D. from Yale in 1984. He spent the next ten years teaching at Princeton, but has just moved to Harvard as the first Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics.

Campbell's research concerns asset markets, the macroeconomy, and the links between them. He has served as coeditor of the American Economic Review, and currently is writing a graduate-level textbook, The...