Biography

Roger Farmer is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Economics at UCLA and served as Department Chair from July 2008 through December 2012. Since 2017, he has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick in the UK. He is a world leading economist and former Senior Houblon-Norman Fellow and current Research Advisor at the Bank of England. He has published numerous scholarly articles in leading academic journals, as well as books that have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese and Hungarian. He has previously held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the European University Institute and the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Fellow Commoner of Cambridge University. Most recently, he was appointed to the Management Team of the UK Network, Rebuilding Macroeconomics (RM). He is also a co-leader of the Instability Research Hub  at RM. His latest book, Prosperity for All: How to Prevent Financial Crises, is available for purchase from Oxford University Press and on Amazon. Here is a link to his Personal Website. You can also follow him on Twitter.

Education

Ph.D. University of W. Ontario

Research Areas

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics