Benjamin Moll | |
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Born | June 29, 1983 |
Nationality | German |
Academic career | |
Field | Macroeconomics |
Institution | London School of Economics |
Alma mater | University of Chicago (Ph.D., 2010) University College London (B.Sc., 2005) |
Influences | Robert M. Townsend; Robert E. Lucas, Jr.; Abhijit Banerjee |
Contributions | HANK; Continuous-time methods |
Awards | Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2016); Best European macroeconomist under the age of 40, Bernacer prize (2017); Leverhulme Prize (2019); Economics in Central Banking Award (2019) |
Benjamin Moll (born June 29, 1983) is a German macroeconomist who is the Sir John Hicks Chair and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.[1] He is the recipient of the 2017 Bernacer Prize for his "path-breaking contributions to incorporate consumer and firm heterogeneity into macroeconomic models and use such models to study rich interactions between inequality and the macroeconomy".[2]