William A Barnett

Dr. Barnett joined KU’s faculty in 2002, and also serves as Director of the Center for Financial Stability, in New York City. He is the founder and was first president of the Society for Economic Measurement. He previously was Research Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. 

Prior to becoming an economist, Dr. Barnett worked as an engineer at Rocketdyne on development of the Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine. Dr. Barnett’s research interest is in macroeconomics and econometrics, including capital asset pricing, financial aggregation theory, monetary asset demand modeling and extensions of index number theory to risk. In consumer demand and production modelling, he originated the Laurent series approach to specification design and the seminonparametric approach using the Müntz–Szász theorem. 

He is a fellow of the TANDO policy institute, a charter fellow of the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference and the Society for Economic Measurement, and a fellow of the World Innovation Foundation.

Learn more about William Barnett on the Department of Economics website.