John Hardman Moore
John Halstead Hardman Moore CBE (born May 7, 1954 ) is a British economist and university professor.
Career, research and teaching
Moore graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1976 before completing his Master of Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). There he graduated in 1984 as a Ph.D.
From 1983 lecturer for economics at the LSE, he became reader in 1987 and full professor in 1990. After holding a visiting professorship at the University of St Andrews from 1997 , he took on a professorship at the University of Edinburgh parallel to his work in London in 2000 . In 2010 he was President of the Econometric Society , of which he has been a member since 1989. He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.
The focus of Moore's work lies in the area of contract theory and the interaction of financial markets with the real economy. With the Japanese Nobuhiro Kiyotaki , he developed the so-called Kiyotaki-Moore model , which explains how the interaction between real estate prices and restrictions on lending can result in larger fluctuations in income and assets from small shocks. In 1999 they received the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize for their work .
Web links
- John Hardman Moore at the University of Edinburgh
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Moore, John Hardman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, John Halstead Hardman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1954 |