# Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Engle is named to the US Treasury's Office of Financial Research

1 News November 14, 2012 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/11/14/ex-fed-official-kohn-29-others-to-advise-treasury-research-office/) -- "Along with Kohn, who is now a Brookings Institution scholar, the committee will also include two Nobel laureates in economics — New York University professor [Robert Engle](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-engle) and Robert Merton, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University."

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