Biography

Lawrence White has been with New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business for more than 30 years. His primary research areas of interest include financial regulation, antitrust, network industries, international banking and applied microeconomics.

Professor White has published numerous articles in the Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other leading journals in economics, finance, and law. He is the author of The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation, among other books, and he is the co-editor (with John Kwoka) of The Antitrust Revolution, the 5th edition of which appeared in 2008. He contributed chapters to both of the NYU Stern books on the financial crisis - Restoring Financial Stability and Regulating Wall Street. He is the co-author (with Stern's Viral Acharya, Matthew Richardson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh) of Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance.

Research Interests

• Financial regulation
• Antitrust
• General regulation
• Industrial organization
• Banks, banking and bank behavior

Courses Taught

• Antitrust Law and Economics (Law School)
• Firms & Markets

Academic Background

Ph.D., Economics, 1969
Harvard University

M.Sc., Economics, 1965
London School of Economics

B.A., Economics, 1964
Harvard University

Awards & Appointments

Western Economic Association International	Board Member and Secretary-Treasurer	2006
Corporate Practice Commentator	Top 10 Corporate and Securities Article of 2005	2005
Review of Industrial Organization	General Editor	2004
University of South Australia	Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant	2002
Southern Finance Association meetings	Outstanding Paper in Financial Institutions	2000

Selected Publications

V. Acharya, M. Richardson, S. Van Nieuwerburgh, L. White (2011)
Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance
Princeton University Press, 2011

V. Acharya, M. Richardson, S. Van Nieuwerburgh, L. White (2011)
The Government-Sponsored Enterprises
Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance. Wiley, 2011

V. Acharya, M. Richardson, S. Van Nieuwerburgh, L. White (2011)
Regulation of Rating Agencies

J.E. Kwoka, Jr., L. White (2009)
The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy
5th edn., Oxford University Press, 2009

T. Lenard, L. White
Improving ICANN’s Governance and Accountability: A Policy Proposal
Information Economics and Policy, forthcoming 2011