Laurence Ball

Biography

Laurence Ball has been Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University since 1994. He received his PhD from MIT in 1986 and was Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU (1985-88) and Princeton (1988-94). He currently holds the positions of Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund.

Previously, he was a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England; Professorial Fellow in Monetary Economics at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand; visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia, Kansas City and Boston; and visiting scholar at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the central banks of Australia Jamaica, Japan and Norway.

His research focuses on unemployment and inflation, monetary policy and fiscal policy. He has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies and Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.