Lars Svensson#
Membership Number: | 1231 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1992 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | http://www.larseosvensson.se |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013- Affiliated Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
- 2009- Affiliated Professor, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University
- 2007-2013 Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank (the central bank of Sweden)
- 2001-2009 Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University
- 1984-2003 Professor of International Economics, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University
- 1978-1982 Acting Associate Professor (Tf docent), Department of Economics, Stockholm University
- 1978-1984 Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University
Fields of Scholarship
- Macroeconomics
- Monetary economics
- International macroeconomics
- International finance
- International trade
- Intertemporal general equilibrium theory
- Allocation under uncertainty
- Fix-price models with quantity rationing
Honours and Awards
- since 2012 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association
- October 28-30, 2008 The Lindahl Lectures, Uppsala University: "Monetary Policy in Theory and Practice."
- 2004-2007 Member of the Monetary Policy Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- since 2004 Fellow of the European Economic Association
- since 2003 Affiliated Faculty, Princeton Program in Political Economy, Princeton University
- 2002-2007 Member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- 2002 Chair of the Committee for the Independent Review of Monetary Policy and Institutions in Norway, Norges Bank Watch 2002
- since 2001 Faculty Research Associate, International Economics Section, Princeton University
- since 2001 Member of Interdepartmental Committee, Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University
- April 5, 2001 The Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture, Princeton University: "The Foolproof Way of Escaping from a Liquidity Trap: Is It Really, and Can It Help Japan?"
- since 2000 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Appointed to conduct the Independent Review of Monetary Policy in New Zealand
- 2000-2005 Member of Panel of Economic and Monetary Experts of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament
- since 1999 Honorary Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA)
- since 1998 Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 1997-2001 Member of the Council of the European Economic Association
- Member of the selection committee for the 1994 Hicks Tinbergen medal
- 1993 The Alfred Marshall Lecture, Eighth Annual Congress, European Economic Association, Helsinki: "Fixed exchange rates as a means to price stability: What have we learned?" European Economic Review 38 (1994) 447-468
- since 1992 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1991 The Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations' Prize, for outstanding research in international economics
- 1990-2007 Advisor (vetenskaplig rådgivare) to Sveriges Riksbank (the central bank of Sweden)
- since 1990 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- The Prize Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: Associate Member 1986, Secretary 1988-1992, Member 1993-2002, Chair 1999-2001
- since 1989 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- since 1987 Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, Program affiliation: Asset Pricing, International Finance and Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics
- since 1986 Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
- since 1985 Research Associate, Rochester Center for Economic Research
- 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992 The Jan Wallander Award for International Scientific Publications
- 1980 The Erik Lindahl Award