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Senior Fellow

John Cochrane

Senior Fellow
九色社区 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution

John H. Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct scholar of the CATO Institute. 

Before joining Hoover, Cochrane was  a Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago鈥檚 Booth School of Business, and earlier at its Economics Department. Cochrane earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in physics at MIT and his PhD in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a junior staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (1982鈥�83).

Cochrane鈥檚 recent publications include the books The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Asset Pricing, as well as articles on dynamics in stock and bond markets, the volatility of exchange rates, the term structure of interest rates, the returns to venture capital, liquidity premiums in stock prices, the relation between stock prices and business cycles, and option pricing when investors can鈥檛 perfectly hedge. His monetary economics publications include articles on the relationship between deficits and inflation, the effects of monetary policy, and the fiscal theory of the price level. He has also written articles on macroeconomics, health insurance, time-series econometrics, financial regulation, and other topics. He was a coauthor of The Squam Lake Report. His Asset Pricing PhD class is available online via Coursera. 

Cochrane frequently contributes editorial opinion essays to the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.com, and other publications. He maintains the Grumpy Economist blog.

Focal Areas: Money and Finance

Education

SB, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
PhD, Economics, University of California Berkeley, 1986

Contact

(650) 723-6708