David King "Dave" Backus (April 1953 – June 12, 2016)Obituary in the New York TimesObituary by Tom Cooley was an American economist, specializing in financial economics and international macroeconomics. He was the Heinz Riehl Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.
Backus made several significant contributions to macroeconomics and finance, including the canonical international business cycle model with Patrick J. Kehoe and Finn Kydland, and identifying the Backus–Smith puzzle (consumption and real-exchange-rates) and the Backus–Kehoe–Kydland puzzle (international consumption correlation).
Prior to joining the Stern School in 1990, he studied at Hamilton College (BA, 1975) and Yale University (PhD, 1981), taught at Queen's University and the University of British Columbia, and served at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.Profile at VoxEU.org
He died from leukemia in New York City on June 12, 2016.Tribute by David K. Levine
References
External links Home page at the Stern School of Business