Charles Irving Plosser (/ˈplɑːsər/; born September 19, 1948) is a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia who served from August 1, 2006, to March 1, 2015.

[1][2] An academic macroeconomist, he is well known for his work on real business cycles, a term which he and John B.

Specifically, he wrote along with Charles R. Nelson in 1982[4] an influential work entitled "Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconomic Time Series" in which they dealt with the hypothesis of permanent shocks affecting the aggregate product (GDP).

Before joining the Philadelphia Fed, Plosser was the dean of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester for 12 years.

He also served concurrently as the school's John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy.