Thomas J. Sargent | |
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Born | Pasadena, California, U.S. | July 19, 1943
Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
Academic career | |
Field | Macroeconomics, monetary economics |
Institution | Hoover Institution Carnegie-Mellon University University of Pennsylvania University of Minnesota University of Chicago Stanford University New York University Peking University HSBC Business School |
Doctoral advisor | John R. Meyer |
Doctoral students | Robert Litterman Monika Piazzesi Mariacristina De Nardi Ellen McGrattan Lars Peter Hansen Albert Marcet Noah Williams Laura Veldkamp Richard Clarida Danny Quah Sagiri Kitao Martin Eichenbaum Lawrence J. Christiano Greg Kaplan |
Influences | John F. Muth Robert E. Lucas, Jr. Christopher A. Sims Neil Wallace |
Awards | Nemmers Prize in Economics (1996) NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (2011) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2011) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Academic background | |
Thesis | The structure of interest rates (1968) |
Thomas J. Sargent | |
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Allegiance | United States |
Service | United States Army |
Years of service | 1968-1969 |
Rank | Captain[1] |
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Thomas John Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist and the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University.[2] He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. As of 2024, he ranks as the 38th most cited economist in the world.[3] He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2011 together with Christopher A. Sims for their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".[4]