Allan H. Meltzer
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Allan H. Meltzer was an influential American economist known for his extensive work on monetary policy, central banking, and his authoritative history of the Federal Reserve.
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| Allan H. Meltzer canonical | 3 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan H. Meltzer Context triple: [Anna Schwartz, coAuthor, Allan H. Meltzer]
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Michael D. Bordo
Michael D. Bordo is an economic historian known for his influential research on monetary history and policy, often focusing on financial crises and the evolution of central banking.
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B.
Robert J. Hodrick
Robert J. Hodrick is an American economist best known for his work in macroeconomics and finance, including the development of the Hodrick–Prescott filter used to analyze business cycles.
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C.
Karl E. Case
Karl E. Case was an American economist best known for co-developing the widely used Case-Shiller Home Price Index that tracks U.S. residential real estate prices.
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D.
James Tobin
James Tobin was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for his work on portfolio selection theory, monetary economics, and the proposal of the "Tobin tax" on financial transactions.
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E.
Max Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz was a prominent American architect known for his modernist designs of major cultural and institutional buildings, including notable performance arts centers and university facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan H. Meltzer Target entity description: Allan H. Meltzer was an influential American economist known for his extensive work on monetary policy, central banking, and his authoritative history of the Federal Reserve.
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A.
Michael D. Bordo
Michael D. Bordo is an economic historian known for his influential research on monetary history and policy, often focusing on financial crises and the evolution of central banking.
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B.
Robert J. Hodrick
Robert J. Hodrick is an American economist best known for his work in macroeconomics and finance, including the development of the Hodrick–Prescott filter used to analyze business cycles.
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C.
Karl E. Case
Karl E. Case was an American economist best known for co-developing the widely used Case-Shiller Home Price Index that tracks U.S. residential real estate prices.
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D.
James Tobin
James Tobin was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for his work on portfolio selection theory, monetary economics, and the proposal of the "Tobin tax" on financial transactions.
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E.
Max Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz was a prominent American architect known for his modernist designs of major cultural and institutional buildings, including notable performance arts centers and university facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Adam Smith Award (National Association for Business Economics)
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linked to:
Adam Smith Award
Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-02-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-05-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Duke University
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| employer |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business ⓘ
linked to:
Tepper School of Business
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| familyName | Meltzer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
central banking
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economic history ⓘ macroeconomics ⓘ monetary economics ⓘ |
| givenName | Allan ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Karl Brunner ⓘ |
| hasPartInBibliography |
Monetarist analysis of monetary policy
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The Fed at Seventy-Five ⓘ Why Capitalism? ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
Federal Reserve policy
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linked to:
Federal Reserve monetary policy framework
Great Depression ⓘ monetary transmission mechanism ⓘ rules versus discretion in monetary policy ⓘ |
| ideologicalOrientation | classical liberalism ⓘ |
| influenced |
modern central bank policy analysis
ⓘ
monetarist macroeconomics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Karl Brunner
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Milton Friedman ⓘ |
| knownFor |
history of the Federal Reserve
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research on central banking ⓘ research on monetary policy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Mont Pelerin Society ⓘ |
| name | Allan H. Meltzer ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Bennett T. McCallum
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Marvin Goodfriend ⓘ |
| notableWork | A History of the Federal Reserve ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
ⓘ
university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
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| placeOfDeath |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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| positionHeld |
professor of political economy
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visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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