Kenneth Rogoff
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| Born | March 22, 1953 Rochester, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Field | Financial economics |
| Alma mater | Yale University (B.A.) MIT (Ph.D.) |
| Influences | James Tobin Rudi Dornbusch Stanley Fischer Jerry Hausman Jagdish Bhagwati |
| Information at IDEAS/RePEc | |
Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is currently the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is also a chess Grandmaster.
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[edit] Early life
Rogoff grew up in Rochester, New York. His father was a Professor of Radiology at the University of Rochester. He attended East High School.
Rogoff received a B.A. from Yale University summa cum laude in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
[edit] Career
Early in his career, Rogoff served as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science as well as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a former Guggenheim Fellow.[citation needed]
Rogoff was the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University.[citation needed]
He later served as Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department of the IMF, from August 2001 to September 2003.[citation needed]
In 2002, Rogoff was in the spotlight because of a dispute with Joseph Stiglitz, a former Chief Economist of the World Bank and 2001 Nobel Prize winner. After Stiglitz had criticized the International Monetary Fund in his book, Globalization and Its Discontents, Rogoff responded with an Open Letter.
[edit] Publications
His most recent book This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, of which he was a co-author with Carmen Reinhart, was released in October 2009.[1]
[edit] Chess career
Rogoff was a gifted chess player and in the late 1970s was one of the strongest players in the United States. He attained the rank of National Master at the age of 14,[2] and was awarded the titles of International Master in 1974 and Grandmaster in 1978.[3] Notable results included second place in the 1975 U.S. Championship[4] and draws in individual games against former world champions Mikhail Tal[5] and Tigran Petrosian.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Rampell, Catherine (July 4, 2010), "They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/economy/04econ.html?src=me&ref=homepage
- ^ Chess Life, Sept. 1968, p. 336
- ^ FIDE page for Rogoff
- ^ Chess career
- ^ Tal vs. Rogoff
- ^ Petrosian vs. Rogoff
[edit] External links
- Kenneth Rogoff at Harvard University Department of Economics
- Kenneth Rogoff, 2011 winner of the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics
- Column archive at Project Syndicate
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Kenneth Rogoff on Charlie Rose
- Kenneth Rogoff at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Kenneth Rogoff in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Kenneth Rogoff player profile at ChessGames.com
- On Point with Tom Ashbrook" Thursday, November 15, 2007 show titled Where’s the Economy Headed?
- This Time is Different: An Interview with Kenneth Rogoff, Nicholas Rugoff, The Politic, May 1, 2010
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| Preceded by Michael Mussa |
IMF Chief Economist 2001–03 |
Succeeded by Raghuram Rajan |
