Benjamin Moll is an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously, he had visiting appointments in the Department of Economics at New York University and the Department of Economics and SIEPR at Stanford University. Mr Moll received a bachelor’s degree from University College London, UK, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
His research addresses questions in macroeconomics and development economics. He has investigated the importance of credit market imperfections in explaining cross-country income differences, the role of policy in alleviating them, the determinants of cross-country differences in human capital accumulation and the role of knowledge diffusion in the growth process. Mr Moll’s current research explores the role of income and wealth distribution in the macroeconomy. One line of this work is concerned with the causes of inequality, in particular understanding what has driven the rise in income and wealth inequality at the very top of the distribution observed in the US over the past forty years. A second line of this work is concerned with the consequences of inequality for macroeconomic performance.
