Simon Johnson is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since September 2008. Previously he was the International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department (2007–08). At the IMF, Professor Johnson led the global economic outlook team, helped formulate innovative responses to worldwide financial turmoil, and was among the first to propose new forms of engagement for sovereign wealth funds. He was also the first IMF chief economist to have a blog.

Professor Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management, a position he has held since 2004. His previous appointments include Assistant Director in the IMF's Research Department (2004–06) and visiting fellow at the Institute (2006–07).

As an academic, in policy roles, and with the private sector, over the past 20 years Professor Johnson has worked on practical strategies for dealing with major economic disruptions in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, East Asia, and Latin America. His current research focuses on how policymakers can limit the impact of negative shocks, manage the risks faced by their countries, and sustain growth. Recent papers have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Comparative Economics, and Cliometrica (a new Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History).

Recent Blog Posts by Simon Johnson

• ‘Some Of These Institutions Have Become Too Large’ March 7th, 2013
• Fiscal Confrontation And The Declining Influence Of The United States October 3rd, 2012
• Restoring The Legitimacy Of The Federal Reserve September 20th, 2012
• One Man Against The Wall Street Lobby August 29th, 2012
• Why Does Wall Street Always Win? August 24th, 2012
• Mitt Romney And Extreme Fiscal Policy August 23rd, 2012
• The End of the Euro: A Survivor’s Guide May 29th, 2012
• Jamie Dimon Should Resign from the Board of the New York Fed May 21st, 2012
• Geithner to Dimon: Resign from the Board of the New York Fed May 18th, 2012
• JP Morgan Debacle Reveals Fatal Flaw In Federal Reserve Thinking May 11th, 2012
• The Buffett Rule Is A Good Idea April 16th, 2012
• Jim Yong Kim For The World Bank April 15th, 2012
• Volcker Rule Would Cause Irreparable Damage to the Muppets – and Much More Broadly April 2nd, 2012
• Last Ditch Attempt to Save a Little Bit of Investor Protection in the United States March 23rd, 2012
• CFA Institute Against the ‘JOBS’ Bill March 20th, 2012
• A Colossal Mistake of Historic Proportions: The “JOBS” Bill March 19th, 2012
• Making the United States More Like Greece March 2nd, 2012
• Karl Rove’s Latest Attack on Elizabeth Warren December 8th, 2011
• Wall Street v. Elizabeth Warren November 14th, 2011
• European Debt: The Big Picture October 24th, 2011
• Anti-American Bankers September 29th, 2011
• Will the IMF Save the World? September 26th, 2011
• Tax Reform and Consumption-Based Tax Systems August 4th, 2011
• China and the Saving of Europe June 22nd, 2011
• A Healthy Financial System Cannot Be Built on the Expectation of Bailouts March 11th, 2011
• Disinformation About the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau February 28th, 2011
• Davos: Two Worlds, Ready or Not January 30th, 2011
• There Are Still No Fiscal Conservatives in the United States January 27th, 2011
• The Bill Daley Problem January 10th, 2011
• Why Is the U.S. Taxpayer Subsidizing Facebook – And the Next Bubble? January 6th, 2011
• Why Can’t Europe Avoid Another Crisis? Why Can’t the U.S.? December 30th, 2010
• Jamie Dimon: Becoming Too Big to Save – Creating Fiscal Disaster December 6th, 2010
• Imminent Eurozone Default: How Likely? December 3rd, 2010
• The Eurozone Endgame: Four Scenarios November 29th, 2010
• Who Gains from the Eurozone Fiasco? China November 21st, 2010
• The Debt Problems of the European Periphery November 17th, 2010
• It’s Not About Ireland Anymore November 15th, 2010
• G20: Profound and Complete Disappointment for the U.S. Treasury November 14th, 2010
• Making the Volcker Rule Work November 8th, 2010
• Foreign Money, National Security, and the Midterm Elections November 1st, 2010
• After the Recession: What Next for the Fed? September 26th, 2010
• Republican Nightmare: Putting Elizabeth Warren to Work Now September 10th, 2010
• Fiscal Austerity and “Third World America” August 26th, 2010
• AFL-CIO: Stronger Financial Reform Would Have Saved Jobs August 19th, 2010
• It’s Hard to Take the Fiscal Hawks Seriously: Testimony to the Senate Budget Committee August 5th, 2010
• Required Intellectual Capital July 30th, 2010
• Banking Under the Dodd-Frank Act July 22nd, 2010
• Tim Geithner’s Ninth Political Life July 16th, 2010
• The Future of Finance: International Edition July 15th, 2010
• The Kanjorski Surprise – Now It Gets Interesting July 9th, 2010
• State Banking, Globally July 8th, 2010
• The G20′s China Bet July 1st, 2010
• What Is Goldman Sachs Thinking? June 29th, 2010
• JP Morgan Responds to Financial Reform: The Poison Pill Strategy June 28th, 2010
• Tim Geithner and Larry Summers Need Paul Krugman to Replace Peter Orszag June 24th, 2010
• “Chuck Prince” Is Going to Run This Bank (Into the Ground) June 23rd, 2010
• Dead On Arrival: Financial Reform Fails June 21st, 2010
• Why “Living Wills” Fail June 17th, 2010
• Don’t Forget the Kanjorski Amendment June 14th, 2010
• Decision Time: Has the President Abandoned Paul Volcker’s Ideas on Financial Reform? June 10th, 2010
• Richard Fisher (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas): Larry Summers, the G20, and Financial Dementia June 7th, 2010
• French Connection: The Eurozone Crisis Worsens Sharply June 4th, 2010
• The Maginot Line Illusion June 3rd, 2010
• Eugene Fama: “Too Big to Fail” Perverts Activities and Incentives June 3rd, 2010
• The Consensus on Big Banks Shifts, but Not at Treasury June 1st, 2010
• So Damn Little Money May 27th, 2010
• The Road to Economic Serfdom May 24th, 2010
• Thinking About Financial Reform May 17th, 2010
• Senator Kaufman Was Right – Our Financial System Has Become Dangerous May 13th, 2010
• Our Eurozone Call in October 2008 and Banking Reform Today May 13th, 2010
• It’s Not About Greece Anymore May 6th, 2010
• Fake Debate: The Senate Will Not Vote on Big Banks May 4th, 2010
• “Most Observers” Do Not Agree with Larry Summers on Banking May 3rd, 2010
• The Republicans Help Reform, Inadvertently April 27th, 2010
• Break Up the Banks April 20th, 2010
• Goldman Sachs: Too Big to Obey the Law April 19th, 2010
• The Next Global Problem: Portugal April 15th, 2010
• Senator McConnell Is Wrong, Senator Kaufman Is Right. Any Questions? April 15th, 2010
• Greek Bailout, Lehman Deceit, and Tim Geithner April 13th, 2010
• Greece Saved for Now – Is Portugal Next? April 12th, 2010
• What Would Really End “Too Big to Fail”? April 8th, 2010
• Capital Requirements Are Not Enough April 1st, 2010
• Paul Volcker: Do The Right Economic Thing March 31st, 2010
• Volcker, Warren, and Kaufman: There Must Be New Law March 29th, 2010
• Senator: Which Part of “Too Big to Fail” Do You Not Understand? March 26th, 2010
• Financial Reform: Will We Even Have a Debate? March 25th, 2010
• The Administration Starts to Fight on Banking, but for What? March 23rd, 2010
• Volcker and Bernanke: So Close and Yet So Far March 22nd, 2010
• Metternich with a Blackberry March 21st, 2010
• Could the U.S. Become Another Ireland? March 19th, 2010
• Enron and Merrill, Greece and Goldman March 16th, 2010
• Does Meaningful Financial Reform Have Any Chance? March 15th, 2010
• The Speech for Which We Have Been Waiting March 11th, 2010
• European Monetary Fund, Arriving Soon March 9th, 2010
• Does the Obama Administration Even Want to Win in November? March 7th, 2010
• Why No International Financial Regulation? March 2nd, 2010
• Populism January 31st, 2010
• Is the “Volcker Rule” More than a Marketing Slogan? January 24th, 2010
• Secretary Geithner Needs to Get with the Program January 22nd, 2010
• The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission: Ready For A Breakthrough January 12th, 2010
• The Case for a Supertax on Big Bank Bonuses January 11th, 2010
• “All Serious Economists Agree” January 6th, 2010
• It’s Certainly Not for a Lack of Effort December 21st, 2009
• Wake Up, Gentlemen December 15th, 2009
• Gerry Corrigan’s Case for Large Integrated Financial Groups December 9th, 2009
• Measuring the Fiscal Costs of Not Fixing the Financial System December 7th, 2009
• Does Dubai Matter? Ask Ireland November 29th, 2009
• Morgan Stanley Speaks: Against Relying On Capital Requirements November 24th, 2009
• Who’s Afraid of a Falling Dollar? November 16th, 2009
• Britain To Break Up Biggest Banks November 3rd, 2009
• Patchwork Fixes, Conflicting Motives, And Other Things To Avoid: Some Lessons From the Regulated Non-Financial Sectors October 25th, 2009
• The G20, the IMF, and Legitimacy September 29th, 2009
• You Cannot Be Serious: US Strategy for the G20 September 21st, 2009
• Which Bernanke? Whose Bubble? August 25th, 2009
• China Rising, Rent-Seeking Version August 12th, 2009
• Credit Conditions In The Absence Of Consumer Protection August 10th, 2009
• Why Don’t The Community Banks Get It? August 3rd, 2009
• What Is Josef Ackermann’s Point? July 31st, 2009
• Traditional Chicago Economics Under Pressure: Beyond The Thaler-Posner Debate July 29th, 2009
• Who Nationalized Whom? July 17th, 2009
• No Way Out: Treasury And The Price Of TARP Warrants June 30th, 2009
• What Next For The Global Crisis? June 23rd, 2009
• Small Bank Big Trouble? June 8th, 2009
• Global Crisis And Reform: Starting A Long Journey June 8th, 2009
• Latvia: Should You Care? June 5th, 2009
• Bernanke Didn’t Go Far Enough June 4th, 2009
• What Would Gorbachev Say? On The US, China, And Saudi Arabia June 2nd, 2009
• China Pushes Hard June 1st, 2009
• Brazen Tunneling and Inflation May 28th, 2009
• The Crisis Is Over, And We Wasted It May 27th, 2009
• Design A Country Rescue Package Here (Comment Competition) May 26th, 2009
• Consumer Protection When All Else Fails (Written Testimony) May 20th, 2009
• Can The US Save The World? (House Testimony) May 15th, 2009
• Antitrust For Banks? Ask Carl Shapiro May 13th, 2009
• Is Larry Summers The Next Gordon Brown? May 11th, 2009
• The Other Stress Test (For Bankers) May 8th, 2009
• Stress Tests and The Nationalization We Got May 7th, 2009
• Is Everyone Confused Yet? (Bank Stress Tests) May 6th, 2009
• All About Optics (Predicting Stress Test Outcomes) May 5th, 2009
• Zombie Oligarchs May 1st, 2009
• The People v. The Flu April 30th, 2009
• Larry Summers’ New Model April 27th, 2009
• The Next Big Hearing? (Bill Moyers Tonight) April 24th, 2009
• The Missing Witness April 22nd, 2009
• Two Hearings On Banks Today April 21st, 2009
• Your Hearing: New Blog at WashingtonPost.com April 20th, 2009
• The Department Of Justice Is On Line Two April 17th, 2009
• Bring In The Antitrust Division (On Banking) April 16th, 2009
• Calling All Shareholders April 13th, 2009
• Does The US Still Face An Emerging Market-Type Crisis? April 10th, 2009
• What Next For Banks? April 9th, 2009
• Is It a V? April 8th, 2009
• Inflation Prospects In An Emerging Market, Like The U.S. April 6th, 2009
• Obama Wins At G20: Europeans Lose Control of IMF April 4th, 2009
• Ben Bernanke: More Important Than The G20 Summit April 4th, 2009
• Obama Takes The Lead: G20 Viewer’s Guide April 2nd, 2009
• Obama Against The Odds April 1st, 2009
• Watch Sternly March 26th, 2009
• Room For Debate At The NYT March 25th, 2009
• Breaking The Bank March 23rd, 2009
• CEO Semiotics And The Economics Of Vilification March 21st, 2009
• Parallel Bankers March 20th, 2009
• Causes Of A Great Inflation: Tunneling For Resurrection March 20th, 2009
• Chinese Dissonance March 18th, 2009
• Political Will: Bernanke On The True Cost Of Banking March 17th, 2009
• Much Worse Than You Think: International Economic Diplomacy March 16th, 2009
• The G20 Lets Us Down March 15th, 2009
• Business As Usual March 13th, 2009
• Reining In Banks (Roundtable On Economist.Com) March 13th, 2009
• That Worked (?) March 12th, 2009
• The World Bank And The Stress Test For U.S. Banks March 10th, 2009
• President Obama’s Implied Future For Derivatives March 9th, 2009
• The FDIC Approach March 8th, 2009
• Whatever Did The CDS Market Mean By That? March 6th, 2009
• We Cannot Afford To Wait To Recapitalise US Banks (Letter To The FT) March 6th, 2009
• Confusion, Tunneling, And Looting March 5th, 2009
• Did Goldman Sachs Just Win Big? March 3rd, 2009
• The Line: Not My Fault (Gordon Brown On NPR’s Morning Edition Today) March 3rd, 2009
• What Should President Obama And Prime Minister Brown Discuss? March 2nd, 2009
• The Smell Of Coffee February 27th, 2009
• Listening To The Secretary February 26th, 2009
• Defending A Peg: Lessons for the US Banking Authorities February 24th, 2009
• Privatize The Banks Already February 24th, 2009
• Bank Nationalization: A Viewer’s Guide February 23rd, 2009
• The Choice: Save Europe Now Or Later? February 23rd, 2009
• From Here To A Lost Decade February 22nd, 2009
• Dublin (and Vienna) Calling February 20th, 2009
• President Obama’s Housing Plan February 19th, 2009
• Germany Shows Leadership (?) February 17th, 2009
• Reprivatization After Paulson February 17th, 2009
• Every Consensus Must End February 16th, 2009
• The G7 Needs To Act, This Weekend, On Ireland February 13th, 2009
• Robbery Note – From The Banking Oligarchs This Morning February 12th, 2009
• Rahm Emanuel’s and David Axelrod’s New Dilemma February 12th, 2009
• Axelrod And Emanuel Were Right (On The American Bank Oligarchs) February 11th, 2009
• Secretary Geithner’s Speech: A Viewer’s Guide February 10th, 2009
• High Noon: Geithner v. The American Oligarchs February 9th, 2009
• Insuring Bankers’ Bonuses February 7th, 2009
• Framing the Geithner Bank Plan February 4th, 2009
• The IMF Sends A Message February 3rd, 2009