Lisa D. Cook

Lisa DeNell Cook
Nationality American
Institution Michigan State University
Field Innovation economics
Economic history
Alma mater Spelman College (BA)
University of Oxford (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)

Lisa DeNell Cook[1] is a professor of economics and international relations at the Michigan State University.[2][3] An authority on international economics, especially on the Russian economy, she has been involved in advising policy makers from the Obama Administration to the Nigerian & Rwandan governments to various supranational agencies. She also works at the intersection of macroeconomics, economic history especially African-American history, and innovation economics.

Education and early life

Cook read for a BA in Philosophy (magna cum laude) from Spelman College in 1986.[2][3][1] She proceeded to Oxford University as Spelman's first Marshall Scholar where she bagged another BA -- in PPE in 1988.[1][3] Furthermore, Cook obtained a Ph.D. in Economics under NSF Fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997 -- with advisors including Barry Eichengreen and David Romer.[1][3]

Career

Cook was a Senior Advisor on Finance and Development at the U.S. Treasury Department, and Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow from 2000 to 2001.[3][4]

She was on the faculty of Harvard University from 1997 to 2004, working as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Kennedy School of Government - and as Deputy Diector of Africa Research at the Center for International Development.[4]

She also worked as National Fellow and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution based in Stanford University from 2002 to 2005.

Cook advised the Nigerian government on its banking reforms in 2005.[2]

Since 2005, Cook has been an Associate Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.

Taking a year long leave, she worked as a staff economist in the Obama Administration's Council of Economic Advisers from August 2011 to August 2012.

Academic contributions

Initially in Cook's career, she focused on the Russian economy which was an offshoot from her dissertation.[1][5]

Subsequently, Cook has broadened her research focus to document the economic history of African-Americans from the effect of Jim Crow on innovation rates on African-American,[6]. Her research suggests that violence against African-Americans under the Jim Crow laws led to a lower than expected number of actual patents filed.

She has collated a long-running database on lynching in the United States showing the incidents of lynching and proposing improvements to the existing time series data.[7]

Selected publications

Some of Professor Cook's notable works include:

Journal articles

  • Lisa D. Cook (1999). "Trade credit and bank finance: Financing small firms in Russia" (PDF). Journal of Business Venturing. 14 (5): 493–518. doi:10.1016/S0883-9026(98)00026-3.
  • Lisa D. Cook; Laura N. Beny (2009). "Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Performance" (PDF). The American Economic Review. 99 (2): 268–274. doi:10.1257/aer.99.2.268. JSTOR 25592410.
  • Lisa Cook (2012). "Converging to a National Lynching Database: Recent Developments and the Way Forward". Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 45 (2): 55–63. doi:10.1080/01615440.2011.639289.


References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Three Essays on External and Internal Credit Markets in Tsarist and Post-Soviet Russia". Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Lisa D. Cook". Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lisa D. Cook CV" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 15, 2018. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Lisa Cook Vita". Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ Lisa D. Cook (1999). "Trade credit and bank finance: Financing small firms in Russia" (PDF). Journal of Business Venturing. 14 (5): 493–518. doi:10.1016/S0883-9026(98)00026-3.
  6. ↑ Lisa D. Cook (2014). "Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870–1940". Journal of Economic Growth. 19 (2): 221–257.
  7. ↑ Lisa Cook (2012). "Converging to a National Lynching Database: Recent Developments and the Way Forward". Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 45 (2): 55–63. doi:10.1080/01615440.2011.639289.


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