Kenneth S. Rogoff
Economist and chess grandmaster
Kenneth S. Rogoff is an American economist and chess grandmaster who teaches at Harvard University. He co-wrote This Time Is Different, a study of financial crises, with Carmen Reinhart.
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American Born 1953 in Rochester, United States
About Kenneth S. Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff is an American economist and an international chess grandmaster. He is a professor of economics at Harvard University and is a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). With Carmen Reinhart he wrote This Time Is Different in 2009, a book about what causes debt and financial crises and what follows them, drawing on many countries and eras. His research also covers central bank independence and exchange rates. He has also written Our Dollar, Your Problem, which traces the dollar's postwar rise and considers what lies ahead for global finance.