Dr. John Moore

Biography

John Moore is an economic theorist with a focus on the nature of contracts and the interplay of financial markets within the broader economy. He was appointed to the George Watson's Daniel Stewart's Chair in Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh in 2000. Previously, Moore was appointed in 1983 at the London School of Economics, where he became Professor of Economic Theory in 1990. In 2018, he was appointed to the David Hume University Chair in Economics. Moore served as President of the Econometric Society in 2010 and is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Economic Association. In 1999, he collaborated with Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and jointly received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award from the European Economic Association. Together with Kiyotaki, he won the Stephen Ross Prize for Financial Economics in 2010 for their paper "Credit Cycles".

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