Lawrence Davidson
PhD
IN, USJanuary 2015
Since retiring in January 2010 from the Kelley School of Business, Davidson has been active writing his macroeconomics blog and teaching MBA students in Europe and Asia and most recently at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He was a regular visitor teaching statistics and economics in the MBA and EMBA programs at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. He was appointed Inaugural Director of the IU Kelley Center for the Business of Life Sciences. He was awarded the W. Michael and William D. Wells Faculty Fellowship in 2008. At Founder's Day, March 2001, Professor Davidson received Indiana University's John W. Ryan Award for distinguished contributions to international programs and students.
Davidson started the Indiana Center for Global Business in 1989 an outreach center devoted to Indiana's international economic development. Davidson taught in the Kelley School's regular MBA, Kelley Direct, and Kelley Executive Partners programs. He also taught MBA students in Croatia, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Italy, and South Korea and central bankers in Vietnam. His research interests focus on the measurement and impacts of globalization and he recently conducted global industry analyses of several life sciences industries. He has also done many economic impact studies of sports and entertainment events.
In his role as Kelley's Life Sciences Liaison from 2005 to 2009, Davidson started several new internal and outreach programs including the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series, the IU Kelley Life Sciences Industry Board, and the Academy PLUS Life Sciences. He developed two new courses in the Business of Life Sciences that bring together industry experts, undergraduate business and MBA students, law students, and undergraduate and graduate students majoring in sciences and medicine.
Davidson started his teaching career at Indiana University in 1976 and remained on the faculty of the Business School for almost 34 years. He was a visiting scholar at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank in 1980.
Lawrence S. Davidson
Professor Emeritus of Business Economics and Public Policy
Formerly W. Michael and William D. Wells Faculty Fellow
Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy
Director, IU Kelley Center for the Business of Life Sciences
Office: 1746 S. Springhouse Drive
Bloomington, IN 47401
davidso@indiana.edu
Home: 812.369.4324
Mobile: 812.391.2673
Blog: larrydavidsonspoutsoff.blogspot.com
Guest Contributor: The ManzellaReport.com
Education:
B.S., Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1968
M.A., Economics, University of Arizona, 1971
M.S., Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1973
Ph.D., Economics, University of North Carolina, 1977
January 2015
Since retiring in January 2010 from the Kelley School of Business, Davidson has been active writing his macroeconomics blog and teaching MBA students in Europe and Asia and most recently at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He was a regular visitor teaching statistics and economics in the MBA and EMBA programs at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. He was appointed Inaugural Director of the IU Kelley Center for the Business of Life Sciences. He was awarded the W. Michael and William D. Wells Faculty Fellowship in 2008. At Founder's Day, March 2001, Professor Davidson received Indiana University's John W. Ryan Award for distinguished contributions to international programs and students.
Davidson started the Indiana Center for Global Business in 1989 an outreach center devoted to Indiana's international economic development. Davidson taught in the Kelley School's regular MBA, Kelley Direct, and Kelley Executive Partners programs. He also taught MBA students in Croatia, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Italy, and South Korea and central bankers in Vietnam. His research interests focus on the measurement and impacts of globalization and he recently conducted global industry analyses of several life sciences industries. He has also done many economic impact studies of sports and entertainment events.
In his role as Kelley's Life Sciences Liaison from 2005 to 2009, Davidson started several new internal and outreach programs including the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series, the IU Kelley Life Sciences Industry Board, and the Academy PLUS Life Sciences. He developed two new courses in the Business of Life Sciences that bring together industry experts, undergraduate business and MBA students, law students, and undergraduate and graduate students majoring in sciences and medicine.
Davidson started his teaching career at Indiana University in 1976 and remained on the faculty of the Business School for almost 34 years. He was a visiting scholar at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank in 1980.
Lawrence S. Davidson
Professor Emeritus of Business Economics and Public Policy
Formerly W. Michael and William D. Wells Faculty Fellow
Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy
Director, IU Kelley Center for the Business of Life Sciences
Office: 1746 S. Springhouse Drive
Bloomington, IN 47401
davidso@indiana.edu
Home: 812.369.4324
Mobile: 812.391.2673
Blog: larrydavidsonspoutsoff.blogspot.com
Guest Contributor: The ManzellaReport.com
Education:
B.S., Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1968
M.A., Economics, University of Arizona, 1971
M.S., Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1973
Ph.D., Economics, University of North Carolina, 1977
When will full employment return to the world economy?
Larry Davidson, Professor and Specialist in global macroeconomics, adds a verse to a Peter, Paul, and Mary classic - Where have all the unemployed gone, long time passing. Will countries ever return to "full employment?
Central Bank Monetary Policy and the World Recession
Larry Davidson, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, explains why there is so much disagreement about Central Bank Policy. What is monetary policy? Has it failed? And why can't Ben Bernanke just sprinkle money out of a helicopter?
Exchange Rates do not perform magic
Larry Davidson, Professor of Global Macroeconomics, delves into the labyrinth known as exchange rates. Many countries rely on exchange rate management but Davidson explains why such policies may be a rubber crutch - and not very funny.
Eurozone or Eurogone?
Larry Davidson, Professor Global Macroeconomics, explains why the Eurozone will probably continue to have 17 members despite a lot of talk toward a break-up. What started as five neighbors agreeing not to go to war is now a democracy with 27 countries, 17 of which share a single currency. How is that possible?
Gold glitters or does it?
Larry Davidson, blogger and Professor of Global Macroeconomics, explains why some people would love to return to a gold standard. What is a gold standard and why is there no real movement to return to gold?
Fiscal Cliffs and Government Restructuring
Larry Davidson, Professor and blogger, discusses why national governments have a tsunami of national debt to deal with. Davidson likens the choices of governments to a wall of water versus the Dutch boy with his finger in the dike.
