Benjamin Moll
Regular biography
Benjamin Moll is the Sir John Hicks Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is also a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics. His research focuses on macroeconomics. He teaches courses such as EC417: Advanced Macroeconomics, EC442: Macroeconomics for MRes Students, and EC539: Macroeconomics for Research Students. His academic profile includes a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. He can be contacted via email at b.moll@lse.ac.uk or through his website at https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/benjamin-moll.
Scholar-generated biography
Benjamin Moll is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, specializing in Macroeconomics and Inequality. His research explores the dynamics of income and wealth distribution, the role of financial frictions in macroeconomic outcomes, and the impact of policy interventions on economic inequality. Moll's work often integrates continuous-time models and partial differential equations to analyze macroeconomic phenomena. His publications examine topics such as productivity losses from financial frictions, the persistence of misallocation, and the macroeconomic effects of energy import disruptions. He also investigates how inequality influences macroeconomic stability and vice versa, emphasizing the interplay between economic policy and distributional outcomes.