Robert J. Hodrick

Robert James Hodrick (born September 12, 1950), is a U.S. economist specialized in International Finance. AB, Princeton, 1972; PhD, University of Chicago, 1976.^[1] Until 1983, he served as a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he worked jointly with Edward C. Prescott on business cycle, and developed the Hodrick–Prescott filter to distinguish trends from cyclical fluctuations. He taught at Northwestern University and joined Columbia University in 1996.

Robert J. Hodrick
Born	(1950-09-12) September 12, 1950 (age 73)
Nationality	American
Academic career
Institution	Columbia University
Field	Monetary economics
Alma mater	University of Chicago Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Arnold Zellner
Contributions	Hodrick–Prescott filter
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

References

1. . Archived from the original on 2010-06-23. Retrieved 2010-09-18.

External links

• Website at Columbia University
• Robert J. Hodrick at the Mathematics Genealogy Project