June 2, 2014 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of distinguished professor Lawrence J. White as International Fellow.
“Larry White is a leading expert in financial regulation, antitrust, network industries, international banking and applied microeconomics,” said Robson. “The Institute’s research will benefit greatly from his knowledge and policy insights.”
White has been with New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business for more than 35 years.
White has published numerous articles in the Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other leading journals in economics, finance, and law.
He is the author of The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation, among other books, and he is the co-editor (with John Kwoka) of the 6th of edition of The Antitrust Revolution. He contributed chapters to both of the NYU Stern books on the financial crisis -Restoring Financial Stability and Regulating Wall Street. He is the co-author (with Stern's Viral Acharya, Matthew Richardson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh) of Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance.
White holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a M.Sc., economics, from the London School of Economics.
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