Robert King (economist)

Short description: American macroeconomist

For other people with the same name, see Robert King (disambiguation).

Robert King

Born|  (1951-05-24) May 24, 1951 (age 74)
Nationality| United States
Institution| Boston University
University of Virginia
University of Rochester
Field| Macroeconomics
Monetary economics
School or
tradition| New classical economics
Alma mater| Brown University
Doctoral
advisor| Herschel Grossman
William Poole
Harl Ryder
Doctoral
students| Gary Gorton
Sergio Rebelo
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Robert Graham King (born May 24, 1951) is an American macroeconomist. He is currently professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University, editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics, research consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Before that he was a professor at the University of Rochester and then at the University of Virginia.

King is married to another macroeconomist, Marianne Baxter.[citation needed]

King's work spans many areas, including business cycle theory and measurement, real business cycle theory, monetary policy, and economic growth.

## Influential works

* Robert G. King; Sergio T. Rebelo (1999). "Resuscitating Real Business Cycles". Handbook of Macroeconomics. pp. 927–1007.
* Marianne Baxter; Robert G. King (1999). "Measuring Business Cycles: Approximate Band-Pass Filters for Economic Time Series". The Review of Economics and Statistics 81 (4): 575–593. doi:10.1162/003465399558454. http://www.nber.org/papers/w5022.pdf.
* Michael Dotsey; Robert G. King; Alexander L. Wolman (1999). "State-Dependent Pricing and the General Equilibrium Dynamics of Money and Output". Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (2): 655–690. doi:10.1162/003355399556106.
* {{cite journal

| title=The New Neoclassical Synthesis and the Role of Monetary Policy
|author1=Marvin Goodfriend |author2=Robert G. King | journal=National Bureau of Economic Research Macroeconomics Annual
| year=1997

* Robert G. King; Ross Levine (1993). "Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might be Right". The Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (3): 717–737. doi:10.2307/2118406.
* Robert G. King; Sergio Rebelo (1993). "Transitional Dynamics and Economic Growth in Neoclassical Economies". American Economic Review 83 (4): 908–931.
* Marianne Baxter; Robert G. King (1993). "Fiscal Policy in General Equilibrium". American Economic Review 83 (3): 315–334.
* Robert G. King; Charles I. Plosser; Sergio T. Rebelo (1988). "Production, Growth and Business Cycles, I: The Basic Neo-classical Model". Journal of Monetary Economics 21 (2–3): 195–232. doi:10.1016/0304-3932(88)90030-X.
* Robert J. Barro; Robert G. King (1984). "Time-Separable Preferences and Intertemporal-Substitution Models of Business Cycles". Quarterly Journal of Economics 99 (4): 817–839. doi:10.2307/1883127.

## See also

* Journal of Monetary Economics

## External links

* Robert King's web site at Boston University
* The Journal of Monetary Economics

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