芬恩·基德兰德

生平

基德兰德是六个兄弟姐妹中的长子，他在挪威西南部罗加兰的一个农场上长大。他自己回忆说他的家庭教育很自由，他的父母对孩子没有很多限制。青年时期基德兰德在朋友的水貂场帮忙做会计后开始对数学和经济学感兴趣。

1968年基德兰德在挪威商业学院获得经济学硕士学位，1973年从匹兹堡的卡内基梅隆大学获博士，他的博士论文的标题为《分散的宏观经济计划》。获得博士后他回到挪威商业学院任副教授。1978年他转到卡内基梅隆大学任副教授，从此他居住在美国。

在工作之余他非常喜欢布鲁斯音乐，此外他从事健身，他曾经四次参加马拉松，喜欢踢足球和看足球。他最喜欢的足球队是博卡青年队俱乐部。此外他还经常骑他的DUCATI摩托车。

学术

基德兰德的专家领域是经济学，尤其是政治经济学。他教课和研究的重点是商业周期、货币和财政政策以及劳工经济学。从1977年至2004年7月1日他在卡内基梅隆大学任教授，此后他转到圣塔芭芭拉加利福尼亚大学，同时他是挪威商业学院的客座教授。作为研究助理他为达拉斯、明尼阿波利斯和克里夫兰的美国联邦储备系统提供顾问。

Finn Erling Kydland (born 1 December 1943) is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory. He is the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also University Professor of Economics and Richard P. Simmons Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his PhD, and has a part-time position at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). Kydland was a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, with Edward C. Prescott, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."

Biography

Early years

Kydland grew up as the eldest of six siblings at the family farm at Søyland in Gjestal Municipality, which is located in the Jæren farming region in Rogaland county, southwestern Norway. He recalls having had a liberal upbringing, his parents not imposing many limitations on their children. Finn Kydland became interested in mathematics and economics as a young adult, after he did some bookkeeping at a friend's mink farm.

With a freshly awakened interest in theoretical economics, Kydland earned a BSc from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in 1968 and a PhD in economics from Carnegie Mellon in 1973, dissertation: Decentralized Macroeconomic Planning, supervised by Edward C. Prescott. After his PhD he returned to NHH as an assistant professor. In 1978 he moved back to Carnegie Mellon as an associate professor. He has been living in the United States since then.

Scholarship

Kydland's areas of expertise are economics in general and political economy. His main areas of teaching and interest are business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy and labor economics. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University in 1977, where he served as a Professor of Economics until 2004, when he became a faculty member of the University of California, Santa Barbara and founded the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance (LAEF) at this same institution. He is a Research Associate for the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas, Cleveland and St. Louis, and a Fellow at the IC² Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, and has held visiting scholar and professor positions at the Hoover Institution and the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Personal life

Kydland married Liv Kjellevold in 1968, with whom he had four children: Jon Martin, Eirik, Camilla, and Kari. He is now married to Tonya Schooler.

Honours and awards

Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2004)

Fellow, Econometric Society (1992–present)

John Stauffer National Fellowship, Hoover Institution (1982–1983)

Alexander Henderson Award, Carnegie Mellon (1973)

Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

International Chamber of Commerce Oslo Business for Peace Award 2017