Laurence M. Ball
Laurence M. Ball | |
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Born | Boston, Massachusetts | March 19, 1959
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | economist, college educator |
Years active | 1986-present |
Known for | macroeconomics, New Keynesian Economic Theory |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Amherst College Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Academic work | |
Institutions | New York University Princeton University Johns Hopkins University |
Laurence M. Ball (born March 19, 1959) is an American economist, Professor and Chairman of the Economics Department at the
Education and career
Born in
He has been a visiting scholar at reserve banks in numerous countries, including the
Ball is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research,[3] an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis,[5] a visiting scholar in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Analysis.[3]
Works
He became an associate editor for the magazine Open Economies Review in 2009, has authored 4 books and more than 50 articles and papers on economics.[3] His 2010 book The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster was harshly critical of the Federal Reserve and its role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers during the economic crisis of 2008.[6][7][8]
His current research is focused on the long term effects of the Great Recession and the case being made for raising central banks inflation targets to four percent.[9]
Publications
- Ball, Laurence M. The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Ball, Laurence M. Money, Banking, and Financial Markets. New York, NY: Worth Publishers, 2012.
- Chinese translation by Jing Liu, and Yuan He. Bao'er huo bi jin rong xue. Beijing: Zhongguo ren min da xue chu ban she, 2012.
Most cited articles
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References
- ^ "Laurence M. Ball". Economics. 2 September 2011.
- ^ "Laurence Ball". www.macmillanlearning.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Laurence M. Ball, CV (January 2021), Johns Hopkins University website. Archive copy (February 20, 2022).
- ^ "60th Economic Conference". www.bostonfed.org.
- ^ "Fellows – RCEA".
- ^ Stewart, James B. (21 July 2016). "Pointing a Finger at the Fed in the Lehman Disaster". The New York Times.
- ^ "Laurence M. Ball". www.nber.org.
- ^ Ball, Laurence M. (2018). The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster (Studies in Macroeconomic History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108355742
- ^ "Laurence M. Ball - FifteenEightyFour - Cambridge University Press".