Laurence M. Ball
Laurence M. Ball (born March 19, 1959) is an American economist, Professor and Chairman of the Economics Department at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a specialist in the field of macroeconomics .[1][2]
Laurence M. Ball | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 19, 1959 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | 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 |
Education and career
Born in Boston, Massachusetts he attended Groveton High School in Fairfax County, Virginia and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Amherst College in 1980, then a Doctor of Economics degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He then became an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Economics, from 1989-94 he was assistant professor of Economics at Princeton University after which he was appointed professor at Johns Hopkins, becoming department chairman in 2015. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University and a professorial fellow in monetary economics at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.[3]
Ball is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis,[4] he is a consultant to the International Monetary Fund and was the recipient of a graduate fellowship at the National Science Foundation and the Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England. He has been a visiting ellow and consultant to reserve banks in numerous countries including Australia, Brazil, China, England, India and Japan;[5]
Works
He is an associate editor for the magazine Open Economies Review, has authored 4 books and more than 50 articles and papers on economics; 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.
- Ball, Laurence M. The Fed and Lehman Brothers Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
References
- "Laurence M. Ball". Economics.
- "Laurence Ball". www.macmillanlearning.com.
- "60th Economic Conference". www.bostonfed.org.
- http://rcea.org/fellows-list/
- http://www.econ2.jhu.edu/pdf/CVs/ball_cv.pdf
- 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".