Laurence Ball

Johns Hopkins University, NBER, and IMF

Laurence Ball is a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund. He has previously visited a number of central banks, including the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. His research focuses on unemployment, inflation, and fiscal and monetary policy, and he is the author of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (Worth Publishers, second edition 2012).