Speakers

Nobel Prize–winning economist 

Education
1967 Carnegie-Mellon University, Ph.D., Economics
1963 Case-Western Reserve University, M.S., Operations Research
1962 Swarthmore College, B.A., Mathematics

Work Experience
2005– Shinsei Bank Visiting Professor of Political Economy, Stern School of Business, New York University
2004 winter - Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
2003–present Senior Monetary Advisor, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
2003–present W. P. Carey Chair, Department of Economics, Arizona State University
1999–2003 Professor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
1998–1999 Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
1997 spring Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
1980–1998 Professor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
1980–2003 Senior Advisor, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
1980–1982 Visiting Professor of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
1979–1980 Visiting Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
1978–1979 Ford Visiting Research Professor, University of Chicago
1975–1980 Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University
1974–1975 Visiting Professor of Economics, Norwegian School of Business and Economics
1972–1975 Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University
1971–1972 Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University
1967–1971 Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania
1966–1967 Lecturer, Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania.

Books
Barriers to Riches, with S. L. Parente, MIT Press, 2000.
Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics, N. L. Stokey and R. E. Lucas, Jr., with E. C. Prescott, Harvard University Press, 1989.

Honors and Awards
2004 - The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (joint with Finn Kydland) “For their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles.”
2002 - Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, Northwestern University