Thomas Sargent

 | William R. Berkeley Professor of Economics and Business; Professor of Economics Ph.D. 1968, Harvard.
Department of Economics New York University 19 W. 4th Street, 6FL New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212.998.3548 Fax: 212.998.4186
Personal Homepage: http://www.stanford.edu/~sargent
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Fellowships/Honors: Elected Fellow of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Areas of Research/Interest: Macroeconomics, monetary economics, and applied time series analysis.
Selected Publications:
The Big Problem of Small Change, with Fran¸ cois Velde, Princeton University Press, 2002.
Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, with Lars Ljungqvist, MIT Press, 2000.
The Conquest of American Inflation, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1999.
“European Unemployment: From a Worker’s Perspective,” (with Lars Ljungqvist), forthcoming in a Princeton University Press book in honor of Edmund Phelps.
“Robust Control of Forward Looking Models,” (with Lars Peter Hansen), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2003, forthcoming.
“Optimal Taxation without State Contingent Debt,” (with Rao Aiyagari, Albert Marcet and Juha Seppala), Journal of Political Economy, December 2002.
“Robust Pricing with Uncertain Growth,” (with Marco Cagetti, Lars Peter Hansen, and Noah Williams), Review of Financial Studies, 15(2): pp. 363-404, March 2002.
“Robust Permanent Income and Pricing with Filtering,” (with Lars Peter Hansen and Neng Wang), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 6, pp. 40–84, February 2002.
“Escaping Nash Inflation,” (with In-Koo Cho and Noah Williams), Review of Economic Studies, 69: 1-40, January 2002.
“Evolving Post-World War II U.S. Inflation Dynamics,” (with Timothy Cogley), in Macroecononic Annual, 2001, ed. Ben Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff.
“Acknowledging Misspecification in Macroeconomic Theory,” (with Lars Hansen), Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2001, pp. 519–535.
“Robust Control and Model Uncertainty,” (with Lars Hansen), American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 2 (May 2001), pp. 60-66.