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Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas J. Sargent
Sargent in 2011
Born (1943-07-19) July 19, 1943 (age 81)
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics, monetary economics
InstitutionHoover 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
InfluencesJohn F. Muth
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
Christopher A. Sims
Neil Wallace
AwardsNemmers Prize in Economics (1996)
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (2011)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2011)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisThe structure of interest rates (1968)
Thomas J. Sargent
Allegiance United States
Service / branch United States Army
Years of service1968-1969
Rank Captain[1]

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]

  1. ^ "NYU Bio: Thomas J. Sargent". NYU Stern. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  2. ^ "NYU Bio: Thomas J. Sargent". NYU Stern. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Economist Rankings at IDEAS". Ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  4. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011" (Press release). Nobel Prize. 10 October 2011.

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