Valerie Ann Ramey (née Middleton) is an American economist who is currently Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.
[1][2] Ramey received a BA in economics and Spanish from the University of Arizona in 1981, and a PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1987, where her doctoral thesis was supervised by Robert Hall, John Taylor and Steven Durlauf.
[2] Ramey has been an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 2014, and served as Vice President of the American Economic Association from 2017 to 2018.
[2] She is a research associate at the NBER, and has served on its Business Cycle Dating Committee since 2017.
[2][5][6][7] Her research has been cited over 15,000 times according to Google Scholar, and has been quoted in CNN, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.