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in spring of 1983, and then at University of Chicago in 1983–1984. Since 1990, she has been teaching economics at University of Chicago. Aside from teaching, she was a visiting scholar of the Research Department at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis for eight falls in the 2000s. She was awarded the 2021
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Stokey has taught and worked in various institutions. She was an economics professor at Northwestern University since 1978, from assistant professor to department chairman in 1987. She also taught economics as a visiting lecturer at Harvard University in the fall of 1982, at University of Minnesota
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She is currently working on "Technology, Skill, and Long-Run Growth" (June 2017), "Technology, Skill, and the Wage Structure" (June 2017), "The Race Between Technology and The Human Capital" (2014), and "Liquidity Crises: Understanding Sources and Limiting Consequences" with Robert E. Lucas Jr.
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Her recent research is on growth theory, economic dynamics, and fiscal and monetary policy. Her recent work include "Specific Technical Change, Trade Dynamics, and the Evolution of Skill Premia" and "Monetary Shocks in an Economy with Circulating Capital."
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to publish "Information, Trade, and Common Knowledge" (1982), which established that information-based trade is not possible for rational agents with common knowledge. This work contributed to be one of the pillars of modern finance.
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between 1996 and 1997. She has been a member of the American academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2004. She was also a member of the expert panel convened to produce a
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Stokey coauthored "Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy" which was one of the first papers to examine the time consistency of macroeconomic policy and to demonstrate the importance of central banks following rules.
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since 1990 and focuses particularly on mathematical economics while recently conducting research about Growth Theory, economic dynamics, and fiscal/monetary policy. She earned her BA in economics from the
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Stokey has also written articles that explain the "wait and see model", which describes investment decisions that firms who face a one-time tax policy will endure. As well as the author of
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Stokey has published significant research in the areas of economic growth and development, as well as papers on economic history ("A Quantitative Model of the British
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and was a member of the Expert Panel of the Copenhagen Consensus. She received her Honorary Doctor of Laws (L.L.D) in 2012 from the University of Western Ontario.
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Stokey has written critically about how the United Nations allocates funds for international economic development and humanitarian aid.
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on some of the leading scientific/developmental problems of the 21st century. She has held editorial positions with top journals as
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Stokey, N. L. (2001). "A quantitative model of the British industrial revolution, 1780–1850".
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Frontiers of Research in Economic Theory: The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lectures 1983-1997
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that is widely used by research economists and graduate students. Stokey worked with
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She was married to Nobel Prize Winner in Economics laureate
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Lomborg, Bjorn; Kydland, Finn; Stokey, Nancy (2016-07-20).
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The Journal of Economic Growth, Games and Economic Behavior
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Distinguished fellows of the American Economic Association
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Stokey, Nancy, Robert Lucas and Edward Prescott (1989).
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Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy
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Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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United States
University of Pennsylvania
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Harvard University
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Robert Lucas Jr.
University of Chicago
Kenneth Arrow
Economics
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University
Kenneth Arrow
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Econometrica
Industrial Revolution
optimal control
Fernando Alvarez
Paul Milgrom
no-trade theorem
financial economics
Robert Lucas, Jr.
Edward Prescott
Paul Milgrom

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