Laurence M. Ball
{{Short description|American economist}}
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|birth_place =Boston, Massachusetts
|nationality =American
|occupation =economist, college educator
|period =1986-present
|known_for =macroeconomics, New Keynesian Economic Theory
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|alma_mater =Amherst College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Princeton University
Johns Hopkins University
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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.{{cite web|url=https://econ.jhu.edu/directory/laurence-m-ball/|title=Laurence M. Ball|website=Economics|date=2 September 2011 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/Author/laurenceball|title=Laurence Ball|website=www.macmillanlearning.com}}[http://www.econ2.jhu.edu/pdf/CVs/ball_cv.pdf Laurence M. Ball, CV (January 2021)], Johns Hopkins University website. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220220010158/http://www.econ2.jhu.edu/pdf/CVs/ball_cv.pdf Archive copy (February 20, 2022)].
Education and career
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Groveton High School in Fairfax County, Virginia{{Fact|date=September 2022}} and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1980 from Amherst College, then a Doctor of Economics degree in 1986 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the recipient of graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation (1981–1982, 1983–1985). He was assistant professor of economics at the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University from 1985 to 1989 and assistant professor of economics at Princeton University from 1989 to 1994. He was appointed professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University in 1994 and was department chairman from 2015 to 2019. He was Professorial Fellow in Monetary Economics, Victoria University of Wellington and Reserve Bank of New Zealand in 1996 and a visiting professor of economics at Harvard University in the autumn of 2008. He received a Houblon-Norman Fellowship from the Bank of England in 2000–2001 and a Wim Duisenberg Fellowship from the European Central Bank in 2019.
He has been a visiting scholar at reserve banks in numerous countries, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (1991–1993), the Bank of Italy (1993), the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors (1993, 1996, 1999, 2008), the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1995–2000), the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–1997), the Central Bank of Norway (1999), the Bank of Japan (2002), the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (2001–2002), and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2009).{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonfed.org/great-recovery2016/speakers/|title=60th Economic Conference|website=www.bostonfed.org}}
Ball is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis,{{cite web | url=http://rcea.org/fellows-list/ | title=Fellows – RCEA }} a visiting scholar in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Analysis.
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. 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/business/economy/pointing-a-finger-at-the-fed-in-the-lehman-disaster.html|title=Pointing a Finger at the Fed in the Lehman Disaster|first=James B.|last=Stewart|newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 July 2016|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nber.org/people/laurence_ball|title=Laurence M. Ball|website=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
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.cambridgeblog.org/author-profile/laurence-ball/|title=Laurence M. Ball - FifteenEightyFour - Cambridge University Press|publisher=}}
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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Category:20th-century American economists
Category:Amherst College alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty
Category:Princeton University faculty