Valerie Ramey


Valerie Ramey is an American economist, currently at University of California, San Diego and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and research associate at the NBER. She was awarded the R. K. Cho Economics Prize in 2020.

Career and research

Ramey has a BA in economics and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a PhD in economics from Stanford University.
She is an associate editor of the Journal of Political Economy.
Her works have been cited over 15,000 times according to Google Scholar. Her research has been quoted in CNN, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.