Robert Barro

Robert Barro
Born (1944-09-28) September 28, 1944 (age 80)
New York City, U.S.
EducationCalifornia Institute of Technology (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)
SpouseRachel McCleary
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
InstitutionHarvard University
School or
tradition
New classical macroeconomics
Doctoral
advisor
Zvi Griliches
Doctoral
students
Zvi Hercowitz
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Xavier Gabaix
George-Marios Angeletos
Emi Nakamura
Michael Kremer
ContributionsRicardian equivalence hypothesis
Economic growth
Time consistency
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University.[1] Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent.[2] He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-editor of the influential Quarterly Journal of Economics.[3]

  1. ^ "Robert Barro". ineteconomics.org.
  2. ^ Solow, Robert, ed. (2004). Productivity growth, inflation, and unemployment: The collected essays of Robert J. Gordon. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 226–227. ISBN 978-0-521-53142-9.
  3. ^ "Institute for New Economic Thinking".