Benjamin Moll
Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics, LSE
Benjamin Moll is a macroeconomist studying how the enormous heterogeneity observed at the micro level, and in particular the large disparities in income and wealth, impact the macro economy and macroeconomic policy.
He currently serves as a co-editor of the American Economic Review.
Recent work by Benjamin Moll
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The ‘missing intercept’ problem with going from micro to macro
Many applied microeconomics papers conclude with a back-of-the-envelope calculation that scales their cross-sectional estimates to the aggregate level. These types of aggregate estimates are only valid under very strong assumptions due to the ‘missin...
Published 09.09.25