Lars EO Svensson

Lars Erik Oskar Svensson (* 1947 in Örnsköldsvik , Sweden ) is a Swedish economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University . His research areas are macroeconomics , international trade, and monetary economics. He is also Vice Chairman of the Swedish Central Bank.

Life

The economist received his Ph. D. in 1976 at Stockholm University , where he still teaches international economics. After 21 guest research and teaching positions at universities and central banks in the USA , Israel , Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s and 1990s, the Swede was also Professor of Economics at Princeton University from 2001 to 2007 . The economist has been Vice Chairman of the Swedish Central Bank since 2007. According to the IDEAS ranking, Svensson is one of the most cited economists worldwide. In 1989 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1992 of the Academia Europaea . He has been an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences since 1998 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2000 .

Fonts (selection)

• Monetary policy with model uncertainty: distribution forecast targeting. German Bundesbank, Press and Publ. Relations Div., Frankfurt am Main, 2005
• Monetary policy with judgment. European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, 2005
• Inflation targeting as a monetary policy rule. Institute for Capital Market Research, Frankfurt am Main, 1998

literature

• Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 1081-1082

Web links

• Literature by and about Lars EO Svensson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lars EO Svensson in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
• Lars Svensson's Princeton Homepage ( Memento from January 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Appearance at the Riksbank
• IDEAS
• FAZ.net January 25, 2017 / Gerald Braunberger : A Swede against the Basel tower lords

supporting documents

1. ^ ^{A b} Mark Blaug, Howard R. Vane: Who's Who in Economics Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 815 ISBN 9781843768579
2. ↑ Central bank presence , accessed November 1, 2008 ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ IDEAS ranking, accessed November 1, 2008
4. ^ Membership directory: Lars Svensson. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 17, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information). 
5. ↑ Foreign Members. (No longer available online.) Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, archived from the original on October 9, 2014 ; accessed on May 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Book of Members. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .