Benjamin Moll
Benjamin Moll | |
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| Born | June 29, 1983 |
| Nationality | German |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (Ph.D., 2010) University College London (B.Sc., 2005) |
| Influences | Robert M. Townsend; Robert E. Lucas, Jr.; Abhijit Banerjee |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
| Notable ideas | 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); Calvó-Armengol International Prize (2024) |
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. He is the recipient of the 2024 Calvó-Armengol International Prize for his "groundbreaking contributions on the role of heterogeneity, whether pertaining to individuals or the constraints they face" and 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".