Prof. John Moore is the George Watson’s and Daniel Stewart’s Professor of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh. He has a B.A in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. Prof. Moore's research has largely been in microeconomics: labour contracts; the nature of firms and the design of organisations; financial contracting and bankruptcy reform; modelling contractual incompleteness.
More recently, he has worked on the foundations of macroeconomics, in particular on the role of money and credit in the propagation of business cycles. Professor Moore was editor of the Review of Economic Studies, and has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Econometric Society. He has also been elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Economic Association. With his collaborator Professor Nobuhiro Kiyotaki of Princeton University, he was awarded the Yrjo Jahnsson Medal from the European Economics Association. |
