Pete Klenow

Pete Klenow
Academic background
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BS)
Stanford University (PhD)
ThesisExternalities and business cycles (1991)
Doctoral advisorsRobert Hall
Kenneth L. Judd
Academic work
DisciplineIndustrial Organization,
Macroeconomics
Institutions

Peter Joseph Klenow (born 1964) is an American economist and the Ralph Landau Professor in Economic Policy at Stanford University. He is known for his work on firm productivity in the developing world and on measures of economic growth.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. He has published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and The Journal of Political Economy.