NBER profile: Ross Levine.

Ross Levine is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics and the Harrison S. Kravis University Professor and Professor of Economics at Brown University. Also at Brown, Levine is the Paul Dupee Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA and worked for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the World Bank, and the University of Virginia. Before moving to Brown University in 2005, Levine was the Curtis Carlson Professor of Finance at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

Levine's research examines the determinants of economic growth and focuses on understanding the linkages between financial sector policies, the operation of financial systems...