Robert J. Hodrick

Robert James Hodrick (born September 12, 1950), is a U.S. economist specialized in International Finance. AB, Princeton, 1972; PhD, University of Chicago, 1976.^[1] Until 1983, he served as a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he worked jointly with Edward C. Prescott on business cycle, and developed the Hodrick–Prescott filter to distinguish trends from cyclical fluctuations. He taught at Northwestern University and joined Columbia University in 1996.

Robert J. Hodrick
Born	(1950-09-12) September 12, 1950 (age 74)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Chicago Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Arnold Zellner
Academic work
Discipline	Monetary economics
Institutions	Columbia University
Notable ideas	Hodrick–Prescott filter
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc