Education: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1978.

Current Affiliations: The David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Director of Macro Finance Research (MFR).

Selected Honors:

· Nobel Prize in Economics (shared with Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller) for empirical analysis of asset prices, 2013.
· Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 1999.
· Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993.
· Fellow, Econometric Society, 1985.
· Distinguished Fellow, Macro Finance Society, 2013.
· Fellow, American Finance Association, 2007.
· Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997.
· Chairman, National Academy of Sciences (Economic Sciences), 2009-2012.
· President, Econometric Society, 2007.
· Vice President, American Economic Association, 2011.

· Economic Dynamics of Uncertainty

· Macroeconomics

· Finance

· Statistics