American economist
Valerie Ann Ramey (née Middleton) is an American economist who is currently Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.[1][2]
Career and research
Ramey received a BA in economics and Spanish from the University of Arizona in 1981, and a PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1987, where her doctoral thesis was supervised by Robert Hall, John Taylor and Steven Durlauf.[2][3] She was a research assistant and doctoral student at Stanford from 1983 to 1987 before becoming an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego in 1987.[2] At UCSD, she was appointed an associate professor in 1994, a full professor in 1998, and a Distinguished Professor in 2021.[2]
Ramey has been an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 2014, and served as Vice President of the American Economic Association from 2017 to 2018.[2] She is a research associate at the NBER, and has served on its Business Cycle Dating Committee since 2017.[2] She is also a research fellow at the CEPR, and was appointed a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2023.[2][4] She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2018.[2][5][6][7]
Her research has been cited over 15,000 times according to Google Scholar, and has been quoted in CNN, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.[8][9][10][11] She was awarded the R. K. Cho Economics Prize in 2020.[12]
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