James D. Hamilton
James D. Hamilton is Distinguished Professor and Robert F. Engle Endowed Chair in Econometrics in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego. Hamilton has published on a wide range of topics. His research in areas including econometrics, business cycles, monetary policy and energy markets has been cited in more than 75,000 different articles. His graduate textbook Time Series Analysis remains a foundational reference. He also contributes to Econbrowser, a popular and widely cited economics blog.
A fellow of the Econometric Society, the Journal of Econometrics, the International Association for Applied Econometrics, and the Society for Economic Measurement, Hamilton is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a consultant for the National Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Sciences, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the European Central Bank, and has testified before the United States Congress. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley and has been a professor in the UC San Diego Economics Department since 1992, serving as department chair from 1999 -2002.