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Simon Johnson

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Simon Johnson is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since September 2008. Previously he was the International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department (2007–08). At the IMF, Professor Johnson led the global economic outlook team, helped formulate innovative responses to worldwide financial turmoil, and was among the first to propose new forms of engagement for sovereign wealth funds. He was also the first IMF chief economist to have a blog.

Professor Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management, a position he has held since 2004. His previous appointments include Assistant Director in the IMF's Research Department (2004–06) and visiting fellow at the Institute (2006–07).

As an academic, in policy roles, and with the private sector, over the past 20 years Professor Johnson has worked on practical strategies for dealing with major economic disruptions in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, East Asia, and Latin America. His current research focuses on how policymakers can limit the impact of negative shocks, manage the risks faced by their countries, and sustain growth. Recent papers have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Comparative Economics, and Cliometrica (a new Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History).

Recent Articles by Simon Johnson

The Impact of the Recovery Act on Economic Growth
November 16th, 2009

Who’s Afraid of a Falling Dollar?
November 16th, 2009

Britain To Break Up Biggest Banks
November 3rd, 2009

Patchwork Fixes, Conflicting Motives, And Other Things To Avoid: Some Lessons From the Regulated Non-Financial Sectors
October 25th, 2009

The G20, the IMF, and Legitimacy
September 29th, 2009

You Cannot Be Serious: US Strategy for the G20
September 21st, 2009

Which Bernanke? Whose Bubble?
August 25th, 2009

Systemic Risk: Are Some Institutions Too Big to Fail and If So, What Should We Do about It?
August 12th, 2009

China Rising, Rent-Seeking Version
August 12th, 2009

Credit Conditions In The Absence Of Consumer Protection
August 10th, 2009

Why Don’t The Community Banks Get It?
August 3rd, 2009

What Is Josef Ackermann’s Point?
July 31st, 2009

Traditional Chicago Economics Under Pressure: Beyond The Thaler-Posner Debate
July 29th, 2009

Who Nationalized Whom?
July 17th, 2009

No Way Out: Treasury And The Price Of TARP Warrants
June 30th, 2009

What Next For The Global Crisis?
June 23rd, 2009

Small Bank Big Trouble?
June 8th, 2009

Global Crisis And Reform: Starting A Long Journey
June 8th, 2009

Latvia: Should You Care?
June 5th, 2009

Bernanke Didn’t Go Far Enough
June 4th, 2009

The Science of Insolvency
June 3rd, 2009

What Would Gorbachev Say? On The US, China, And Saudi Arabia
June 2nd, 2009

China Pushes Hard
June 1st, 2009

The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics
May 31st, 2009

Brazen Tunneling and Inflation
May 28th, 2009

The Crisis Is Over, And We Wasted It
May 27th, 2009

Design A Country Rescue Package Here (Comment Competition)
May 26th, 2009

To Save the Banks We Must Stand Up to the Bankers
May 21st, 2009

Consumer Protection When All Else Fails (Written Testimony)
May 20th, 2009

Can The US Save The World? (House Testimony)
May 15th, 2009

Antitrust For Banks? Ask Carl Shapiro
May 13th, 2009

Is Larry Summers The Next Gordon Brown?
May 11th, 2009

Post-G-20 Edition
May 11th, 2009

The Other Stress Test (For Bankers)
May 8th, 2009

Stress Tests and The Nationalization We Got
May 7th, 2009

Is Everyone Confused Yet? (Bank Stress Tests)
May 6th, 2009

All About Optics (Predicting Stress Test Outcomes)
May 5th, 2009

Zombie Oligarchs
May 1st, 2009

The People v. The Flu
April 30th, 2009

Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Save? Examining the Systemic Threats of Large Financial Institutions
April 30th, 2009

The IMF Matters
April 27th, 2009

Larry Summers’ New Model
April 27th, 2009

The Next Big Hearing? (Bill Moyers Tonight)
April 24th, 2009

The Missing Witness
April 22nd, 2009

The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics
April 21st, 2009

Two Hearings On Banks Today
April 21st, 2009

Your Hearing: New Blog at WashingtonPost.com
April 20th, 2009

From the Jaws of Defeat
April 20th, 2009

The Department Of Justice Is On Line Two
April 17th, 2009

Bring In The Antitrust Division (On Banking)
April 16th, 2009

Calling All Shareholders
April 13th, 2009

Does The US Still Face An Emerging Market-Type Crisis?
April 10th, 2009

What Next For Banks?
April 9th, 2009

Is It a V?
April 8th, 2009

Inflation Prospects In An Emerging Market, Like The U.S.
April 6th, 2009

Obama Wins At G20: Europeans Lose Control of IMF
April 4th, 2009

Ben Bernanke: More Important Than The G20 Summit
April 4th, 2009

If Banks Are Too Politically Toxic to Rescue Is Inflation the Answer?
April 4th, 2009

Obama Takes The Lead: G20 Viewer’s Guide
April 2nd, 2009

Obama Against The Odds
April 1st, 2009

Bank Nationalization: A Debate
March 27th, 2009

Watch Sternly
March 26th, 2009

Room For Debate At The NYT
March 25th, 2009

Breaking The Bank
March 23rd, 2009

CEO Semiotics And The Economics Of Vilification
March 21st, 2009

Whistling Past the Graveyard
March 20th, 2009

Parallel Bankers
March 20th, 2009

Causes Of A Great Inflation: Tunneling For Resurrection
March 20th, 2009

Chinese Dissonance
March 18th, 2009

Political Will: Bernanke On The True Cost Of Banking
March 17th, 2009

Political Will: Bernanke On The True Cost Of Banking
March 17th, 2009

Much Worse Than You Think: International Economic Diplomacy
March 16th, 2009

The G20 Lets Us Down
March 15th, 2009

Business As Usual
March 13th, 2009

Reining In Banks (Roundtable On Economist.Com)
March 13th, 2009

That Worked (?)
March 12th, 2009

The World Bank And The Stress Test For U.S. Banks
March 10th, 2009

The World Bank And The Stress Test For U.S. Banks
March 10th, 2009

President Obama’s Implied Future For Derivatives
March 9th, 2009

The FDIC Approach
March 8th, 2009

Whatever Did The CDS Market Mean By That?
March 6th, 2009

We Cannot Afford To Wait To Recapitalise US Banks (Letter To The FT)
March 6th, 2009

Confusion, Tunneling, And Looting
March 5th, 2009

Did Goldman Sachs Just Win Big?
March 3rd, 2009

The Line: Not My Fault (Gordon Brown On NPR’s Morning Edition Today)
March 3rd, 2009

What Should President Obama And Prime Minister Brown Discuss?
March 2nd, 2009

The Smell Of Coffee
February 27th, 2009

Listening To The Secretary
February 26th, 2009

Defending A Peg: Lessons for the US Banking Authorities
February 24th, 2009

Privatize The Banks Already
February 24th, 2009

Bank Nationalization: A Viewer’s Guide
February 23rd, 2009

The Choice: Save Europe Now Or Later?
February 23rd, 2009

From Here To A Lost Decade
February 22nd, 2009

Dublin (and Vienna) Calling
February 20th, 2009

President Obama’s Housing Plan
February 19th, 2009

Germany Shows Leadership (?)
February 17th, 2009

Reprivatization After Paulson
February 17th, 2009

Every Consensus Must End
February 16th, 2009

The G7 Needs To Act, This Weekend, On Ireland
February 13th, 2009

Robbery Note - From The Banking Oligarchs This Morning
February 12th, 2009

Rahm Emanuel’s and David Axelrod’s New Dilemma
February 12th, 2009

Axelrod And Emanuel Were Right (On The American Bank Oligarchs)
February 11th, 2009

Secretary Geithner’s Speech: A Viewer’s Guide
February 10th, 2009

High Noon: Geithner v. The American Oligarchs
February 9th, 2009

Insuring Bankers’ Bonuses
February 7th, 2009

Framing the Geithner Bank Plan
February 5th, 2009

Framing the Geithner Bank Plan
February 4th, 2009

Framing the Geithner Bank Plan
February 4th, 2009

The IMF Sends A Message
February 3rd, 2009

Rahm’s Doctrine And Breaking Up The Banks
February 2nd, 2009

Transparency And Power
February 1st, 2009

Global Economic Outlook (Senate Testimony)
January 30th, 2009

To Save The Banks We Must Stand Up To The Bankers
January 27th, 2009

The Emerging Political Strategy For Bank Recapitalization
January 26th, 2009

Davos World Economic Forum: A Viewer’s Guide
January 25th, 2009

Constraints On The Comprehensive Obama Plan
January 23rd, 2009

The Long Bond Yield Also Rises
January 23rd, 2009

Global Fiscal Stimulus: Should It Be An Obama Administration Priority?
January 22nd, 2009

Constraints On The Comprehensive Obama Plan
January 22nd, 2009

Nationalization Is Not Inevitable
January 21st, 2009

Obama Can; The Rest Of The World, Not So Much
January 20th, 2009

Global Consequences of a US “Bad Bank” Aggregator: It’s Mostly Fiscal
January 18th, 2009

Ireland And An Unstable Europe, Again
January 18th, 2009

Bank of America Gets Quite a Deal
January 17th, 2009

The Funding for Recapitalization
January 16th, 2009

Bank of America Gets Quite a Deal
January 16th, 2009

Policy Parallels: Eurozone and India
January 16th, 2009

What If You Only Had $350bn To Spend?
January 13th, 2009

Who’s Afraid of Deflation?
January 10th, 2009

Causes: Economics
January 9th, 2009

The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics
January 8th, 2009

Overweight Fiscal? (The Obama Economic Plan)
January 8th, 2009

Eurozone Hard Pressed: 2% Fiscal Solution Deferred
January 7th, 2009

Causes: Hank Paulson
January 6th, 2009

The G20: Gordon Brown’s Opportunity
January 4th, 2009

French Car Wreck
January 3rd, 2009

Exit Strategy: Inflation
December 30th, 2008

Too Small To Fail
December 26th, 2008

When Will the G7 Intervene?
December 19th, 2008

Baseline Scenario for 12/15/2008
December 16th, 2008

International Implications of the Citigroup Bailout
December 1st, 2008

Bank Recapitalization Options and Recommendation (After Citigroup Bailout)
November 26th, 2008

Inflation Should Be Just Around the Corner
November 25th, 2008

China’s Stimulus, the IMF Forecast, and Questions about France’s G-20 Agenda
November 13th, 2008

Start by Saving the Eurozone
November 10th, 2008

How to Manage The Banks
October 17th, 2008

The price of salvation
September 26th, 2008