Charles Plosser
Charles I. Plosser | |
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| 11th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | |
| In office August 1, 2006 – March 1, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Anthony Santomero |
| Succeeded by | Patrick T. Harker |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 19, 1948 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 2025 (aged 76) |
| Education | Vanderbilt University (BS) University of Chicago (MBA, PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Doctoral advisor | Arnold Zellner |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
| Institutions | University of Rochester |
| Notable ideas | Real business-cycle theory |
| Website | |
Charles Irving Plosser (/ˈplɑːsər/; September 19, 1948 – August 14, 2025) was an American economist who was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from August 1, 2006, to March 1, 2015. An academic macroeconomist, he is well known for his work on real business cycles, a term which he and John B. Long, Jr. coined. Specifically, he wrote along with Charles R. Nelson in 1982 an influential work entitled "Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconomic Time Series" in which they dealt with the hypothesis of permanent shocks affecting the aggregate product (GDP).