James D. Hamilton, Distinguished Professor and Robert F. Engle Endowed Chair in Econometrics within the Division of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Hamilton, who earned a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1983, has been a professor within the UC San Diego Economics Division since 1992, serving as division chair from 1999 -2002.
A fellow of the Econometric Society, the Journal of Econometrics, the Worldwide Affiliation for Utilized Econometrics, and the Society for Financial Measurement, Hamilton can be a analysis affiliate with the Nationwide Bureau of Financial Analysis. He has been a visiting scholar on the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, in addition to the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond and San Francisco. He has additionally been a advisor for the Nationwide Academy of Sciences, Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee and the European Central Financial institution and has testified earlier than america Congress.
Hamilton has printed on a variety of matters. His analysis in areas together with econometrics, enterprise cycles, financial coverage and power markets has been cited in additional than 75,000 completely different articles. His graduate textbook on time collection evaluation has bought 60,000 copies and has been translated into Chinese language, Japanese and Italian. He additionally contributes to Econbrowser, a preferred and broadly cited economics weblog, and serves on the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Econometer panel of consultants.
