Valerie Ramey

Valerie Ann Ramey (* 1959 ) is an American economist and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

Ramey graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Spanish in 1981 . After a brief employment at Toyota , she continued her studies at Stanford University , where she received her Ph.D. graduated in economics with Robert E. Hall , John B. Taylor, and Steven Durlauf . She then moved to the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor . In 1994 she was promoted to associate professor at the university before she was appointed full professor in 1998 .

Ramey's work focuses on macroeconomics, in particular on economic fluctuations and the effects of government spending, especially with regard to the automotive and oil industries , she has done intensive research and published here.

Ramey has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2017 and a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 2018 . Between 2010 and 2013 she served on the executive committee of the American Economic Association . From 1996, she sat on the Board of Editors of the periodical American Economic Review , 1999, she moved to 2002 for the co-editor. Later she was co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics from 2014 and the Journal of Economic Perspectives and Journal of Political Economy from 2016.

In 2020 Ramey was awarded the R. K. Cho Business Prize for her work .

Web links

• Homepage at the University of California, San Diego