Analyzing Modern Business Cycles Essays Honoring Geoffrey H. Moore

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Philip A. Klein is Professor Emeritus of Economics of the Pennsylvania State University, and is a noted authority on international business cycles. Klein received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley in 1948. He joined Penn State in 1945 as an instructor, being successively promoted to assistant, then associate and then professor in 1958. His long-standing research agenda centered on economic stabilization. As research associate at the Center for International Business Cycle Research, Columbia University, and as senior research associate with Economic Cycle Research Institute, New York, he made major contributions to the measurement and dating of national and international cycles. He also was a leader in the revival of the new institutional economics and published several important articles on the subject. His professional career has had a strong international character. He received several Fulbright professorships and visiting appointments. He also served as a consultant to the United Nations Center for Development Planning Projections; Commission of the European Community, World Bank; Fulbright Commission, where he chaired the Panel on Economics; and the Central Bank of Jordan.