Robert Barro
Robert Barro | |
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| Born | September 28, 1944 New York City, U.S. |
| Spouse | Rachel McCleary |
| Academic background | |
| Education | California Institute of Technology (BS) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Zvi Griliches |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | New classical macroeconomics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Zvi Hercowitz Xavier Sala-i-Martin Xavier Gabaix George-Marios Angeletos Emi Nakamura Michael Kremer |
| Notable ideas | Ricardian equivalence hypothesis Economic growth Time consistency |
| Website | |
Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent. He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-editor of the influential Quarterly Journal of Economics.