Dr. James H. Stock is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Previously he was the Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Roy E. Larson Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Dr. Stock has written more than 90 professional publications, including a popular undergraduate econometrics textbook (co-authored by Mark Watson). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the former chair of the Board of Editors of The Review of Economics and Statistics, and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Stock did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained an MA in Statistics and a PhD from the Economics Department.