What is ‘John A. Allison IV’
A former chairman and CEO of BB&T Corporation, a North Carolina-based financial holding company, from 1989 to 2008, and a member of the company’s board of directors. He is known for dramatically increasing the bank’s assets to make it one of the largest banks in the United States.
Explaining ‘John A. Allison IV’
Born in 1948 in North Carolina, Allison earned an MBA from Duke University and joined BB&T in 1971 as a manager in the financial analysis department.
Allison is also a strong proponent of Ayn Rand’s objectivist philosophy and has donated several million dollars to university programs to support study in this discipline.
Further Reading
- Didn't Your Mother Teach You to Share: Wealth, Lobbying and Distributive Justice in the Wake of the Economic Crisis – heinonline.org [PDF]
- The goals and promise of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act – www.aeaweb.org [PDF]
- Property rights and finance – www.aeaweb.org [PDF]
- The growing complexity of the United States patent system – heinonline.org [PDF]
- Higher Capital and Liquidity Regulations of Basel Standards Have Made Banks and Banking Systems Become More Prone to Financial and Economic Crises – papers.ssrn.com [PDF]
- Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries – papers.ssrn.com [PDF]
- From financial crash to debt crisis – www.aeaweb.org [PDF]
- Empirical studies of financial innovation: lots of talk, little action? – www.aeaweb.org [PDF]
