Randall Wright

Randall Douglas Wright ( * August 4, 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ) is a Canadian economist and university professor.

Life

Wright completed his studies in 1979 at the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Arts. He then moved to the University of Minnesota, where he in 1986 his Ph.D. made. As early as 1984 Assistant Professor at Cornell University, he moved in 1987 to the University of Pennsylvania. There he received in 1990 an honorary Master of Arts and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor. 1994 appointed him to the university professor. In 2009 he accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Wright's work is focused in the area of ​​macroeconomics and monetary economics. Together with Nobuhiro Kiyotaki he developed in the early 1990s an approach to explain by means of search theory problems of the money economy. This approach, which can be informational, temporal or spatial explain fractures than in previous approaches better place, and later under the name matching theory input into science. In addition, he published especially on topics related to work.