Charles Irving Plosser (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).
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19 September 1948 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
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Died |
14 August 2025 (aged 76)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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