Ross Levine

Education
PhD, Economics, UCLA
AB, Economics, Cornell University
 
Positions Held
At Haas since 2012
2012 – present, Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance, Haas School of Business
2007 – 2012, Director, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, Brown University
2005 – 2012, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Brown University
1999 – 2006, Curtis L. Carlson Professor of Finance, Department of Finance, University of Minnesota
1999, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Virginia
1997 – 1999, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Virginia
1990 – 1997, Principal Economist, World Bank
1987 – 1990, Economist, Division of International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
External Service and Assignments
- Senior Fellow, Milken Institute - Member, Council on Foreign Relations - Member, Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board - Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research - Steering Committee, Hoover Working Group on “Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Prosperity” - Editorial Board Member (present and past): Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth

 
Current Research and Interests
- Financial regulation and economic growth, income inequality, and poverty - The political economy of financial regulation - Entrepreneurship

Selected Papers and Publications
- “Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More?” Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming. - “Identifying the Valuation Effects and Agency Costs of Corporate Diversification” Review of Financial Studies, 2013 - “Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us,” MIT Press, 2012. - “Big Bad Banks: The Winners and Losers from Bank Deregulation in the United States,” Journal of Finance, 2010. - “Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking,” Journal of Financial Economics, 2009. - “Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angles Govern,” Cambridge University Press, 2006. - “Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development, Journal of MonetaryEconomics, 2003. - “Stock Markets, Banks, and Growth,” American Economic Review, 1998. - “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997. - “Financial Development and Economic Growth: Views and Agenda,” Journal of Economic Literature, 1997. - “Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might be Right,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993. - “A Sensitivity Analysis of Cross-Country Growth Regressions,” American Economic Review, 1992.

Teaching
- Macroeconomics in the Global Economy, BA 201B

Honors and Awards
- 2012 PROSE award given by the Association of American Publishers for “Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us.” - Literati Outstanding Paper Award 2011 - Brattle Group Prize for Distinguished Paper in Corporate Finance, Journal of Finance, 2010 - Milken Institute Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year 2001 - Omicron Delta Epsilon Best Teacher, Brown University, 2009, 2011