{{short description|American economist}} {{Infobox economist |name = David K. Backus |birth_date = April 1953 |death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|06|12|1953|04||mf=y}} |death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. |institution = New York University Stern School of Business |field = Macroeconomics<br>Finance |alma_mater = Yale University<br>Hamilton College |repec_prefix = f | repec_id = pba242 }}
'''David King "Dave" Backus''' (April 1953 – June 12, 2016)<ref name=obituaryNYTimes>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=david-backus&pid=180377414 Obituary in the New York Times]</ref><ref name=obituary>[http://www.dklevine.com/general/davidkbackus.pdf Obituary] by Tom Cooley</ref> was an American economist, specializing in financial economics and international macroeconomics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bfi.uchicago.edu/people/david-backus|title=David Backus |publisher=Becker Friedman Institute}}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://voxeu.org/person/david-backus Profile] at VoxEU.org</ref>
He died from leukemia in New York City on June 12, 2016.<ref name=obituary/><ref>[http://www.dklevine.com/general/davebackus.htm Tribute] by David K. Levine</ref>
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==External links== *[http://people.stern.nyu.edu/dbackus/ Home page] at the Stern School of Business
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