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William Arnold Barnett is the Charles W. Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas and Director of the Center for Financial Stability in New York City. He also serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the IC2 Institute (University of Texas at Austin) and a Fellow of the Institute for Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University. His career includes prior roles as a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, Stuart Centennial Professor at UT Austin, and Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Before academia, he worked as an engineer on the Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine.
His research focuses on macroeconomics, econometrics, and monetary dynamics. He is the originator of Divisia monetary aggregates, the Laurent series approach in demand modeling, and seminonparametric methods using the Müntz–Szász theorem. His work on bifurcation analysis highlights risks in dynamic policy simulations. Barnett teaches advanced PhD courses in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and econometrics.
Professionally, he chairs the promotion/tenure committee and advises numerous PhD committees. He hosts guest speakers for the department and leads professional organizations, including founding and editing the Cambridge Journal of Macroeconomic Dynamics and leading the Society for Economic Measurement.
