Robert King (economist)

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Robert Graham King (born May 24, 1951 ) is an American economist and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

King studied economics at Brown University , where, after completing his Bachelor of Arts degree with the title “Asset Markets and the Neutrality of Money” with Herschel Grossman , William Poole and Harl Ryder, he received his Ph.D. dissertated .

At the end of his Ph.D. studies , King joined the University of Rochester as a teaching associate at Brown University for the first time and moved to the University of Rochester in July 1978 . Until the summer of 1982 he was an assistant professor in economics, then an associate professor . In July 1986 he was appointed full professor at the university. In September 1993 he followed a call from the University of Virginia . There he initially received the AW Robertson Professorship , from August 1997 he received the Robert P. Black Chair for Money Management and the Carter Glass Chair for Banking Management . In September 2000 he moved to Boston University as an economics professor .

King's work spans a variety of areas in economics, including business cycles , monetary theory, and economic growth . He is one of the most frequently cited economists, especially with his work on the theory of real business cycles .

King has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Monetary Economics since 1983 . He has been a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1994 and a consultant in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond since 1984 .

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SURNAME King, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Robert Graham (full name); King, Robert G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1951