Aug 19, 2020
Bio:
Professor Leachman is interested in
studying the subjects of international trade, exchange rates,
fiscal policy, and international macroeconomics. In conducting her
research, she often incorporates intertemporal models,
multicointegration and sustainability. Her current research project
explores the political economy of intertemporal budgeting. She
recently collaborated with G Rosas, A Bester, and P. Lange to
complete a study on, “The Political Economy of Budget Deficits,”
and worked with the same team on the project entitled,
“Multicointegration and Sustainability of Fiscal Practices.”
She has also teamed up with Bill Francis to publish the works,
“Twin Deficits: Apparition or Reality?” and “Multicointegration
Analysis and the Sustainability of Foreign Debt.” One of her
earlier works, executed with Michael Thorpe, was a study on,
“External Balance in the Small Open Economy of Australia.” She has
also published on such subjects as capital market integration,
optimum corporate capital structure, and Ricardian equivalence.
More recently, Dr. Leachman has turned her attention to creative writing.
Specifically, she has written a memoir about growing up in the
South, football, and her father's death from CTE. The book titled,
"The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen," will be
released in May of 2018. As a result of these efforts, Dr.
Leachman is currently working on framing
the legal and ethical issues surrounding football and the issue of
informed consent.
Lori Leachman is also the author of memoir about
growing up in the South, in a football family, and her father’s
death from CTE. Her, father, Lamar Leachman, coached in the NFL for
14 years and won a Super Bowl coaching for the NY Giants. However,
at the end of his life he suffered a long decline form CTE. This
book tells that story as well as her family’s love of the sport,
and quirkiness of the South.
The book titled “The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen” is available on Amazon and at Barnesandnobel.com.
You can check out the book at her web site : www.lorileachman.net
Professor Lori Leachman brings her career's focus on international
economics and her understanding of international trade
importance and macro-fiscal budgeting to explain how the global
community is navigating these times.
She explains
Lori Leachman is an author and a
professor of
economics at Duke University. She began her career looking at
the openness of economies and the degree of integration in
financial markets. She then moved to currency and exchange markets
and advantages of international trade.
She studied how exchange rates evolved together and whether
currency exchange actually worked—such as when the central back is
buying or selling currency. She also studied the anticipatory
nature of financial markets and international trade importance and
imbalance of payments.
Most recently, she's focused on
macro-fiscal processes and budgeting, namely which countries ran
persistent large deficits and accumulated large volumes of debt and
which countries did not. She talks about her findings and
world finances more generally such as the importance of
creating hierarchy in the budget process.
She specifically talks about the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio, what's
problematic, and how the U.S. uses the privilege of the dollar. She
discusses all this in terms of how COVID is affecting systems and
what we might expect in the future.
For more, see her website at
Duke, econ.duke.edu/people/lori-leachman,
and email her with leachman@econ.duke.edu.
Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK