Laurence Ball

Laurence Ball is a Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has previously visited a number of central banks, including the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. His research focuses on unemployment, inflation, fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation. He is the author of The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster (Cambridge University Press, 2018).