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CURRICULUM VITAE
   
EDUCATION Ph.D. (Economics) Yale University 1979
M.A. (History) Yale University 1978
M. Phil. (Economics) Yale University 1977
M.A. (Economics) Yale University 1976
A.B. University of California, Santa Cruz 1974
 
CURRENT
POSITIONS
George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1999-.
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1986-.
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1984-.
 
PREVIOUS
POSITIONS
John L. Simpson Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1994-1999.
Senior Policy Advisor, International Monetary Fund, 1997-98.
Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1986-94.
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1981-86.
Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1980-86.

 
RECENT
BOOKS

Yellow bear paw Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System , Oxford University Press, January 2011.

Yellow bear paw Emerging Giants: China and India in the World Economy, co-edited with Poonam Gupta and Ranjiv Kumar. Oxford University Press, June 2010.

Yellow bear paw Labor in the Era of Globalization, co-edited with Clair Brown and Michael Reich. Cambridge University Press, November 2009. Click here for publisher's description, excerpt, and table of contents.

Yellow bear paw Institutions for Regionalism: Enhancing Asia's Economic Cooperation and Integration, coedited with Jong-Wha Lee. Asian Development Bank, 2009.

Yellow bear paw Fostering Monetary & Financial Cooperation in East Asia, co-edited with Duck-Koo Chung, World Scientific Press, April 2009. Click here for publisher's description, excerpt and table of contents.

 
RECENT
PAPERS & ARTICLES

Yellow bear paw "Monetary Policy and Financial Stability," in Liu Shiyu (ed), Monitoring and Managing Financial Stability, International Monetary Fund and People's Bank of China, 2012.

Yellow bear paw "When Currencies Collapse," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2012.

Yellow bear paw "The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Rise of the Dollar as an International Currency, 1914-1939," Open Economies Review, 2012.

Yellow bear paw "Rebalancing Global Growth" (with Hiro Ito and Menzie Chinn), in Otaviano Canuto and Dani Leipziger (eds), Ascent After Decline: Regrowing Global Economies After the Great Recession, World Bank, 2012.

Yellow bear paw "Imbalances in the Euro Area." Forthcoming in Liqing Zhang (ed.), Financial Integration and Financial Instability, Edward Elgar, 2012.

Yellow bear paw "How Asia Can Benefit from the European Experience," in Masahiro Kawai, Jong-Wha Lee and Peter Petri (eds), Asian Regionalism in the World Economy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Global Shifts," Comparative Economics, 2011. (In Mandarin)

Yellow bear paw "Managing Capital Flows," in Ejaz Ghani (ed), Reshaping Tomorrow: Is South Asia Ready for the Big Leap? Oxford University Press, 2011.

Yellow bear paw "It's Our Currency but Your Problem," Australian Economic History Review, 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The New Monetary and Financial History," in Geoffrey Wood, Terence Mills and Nichola Crafts, Monetary and Banking History, Routledge, 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Euro's Never-Ending Crisis." In Current History, March 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Crisis and Growth in the Advanced Economies: What We Know, What We Don't, and What We Can Learn from the 1930s." December 2010. Revised version of a paper prepared for the World Bank-NYU conference on long-term effects of the financial crisis, 7-8 October 2010. Appears in Comparative Economic Studies (March 2011).

Yellow bear paw "Managing Openness: Lessons from the Crisis for Emerging Markets," in Mona Haddad and Ben Shepherd (eds), Managing Openness: Trade and Outward-Oriented Growth After the Crisis, Washington, DC: The World Bank (2011), pp. 13-25.

Yellow bear paw "European Monetary Integration with Benefit of Hindsight," CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) Lecture, 22 June 2011 (The Hague: CPB).

Yellow bear paw "The G20 and Global Imbalances." German Marshall Fund G20 Project, 26 May 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Impact of China's Exchange Rate Policy: Evidence from Firm-Level Data" (with Hui Tong). Global Economic Review, June, 2011.

Yellow bear paw "What Kind of Economic and Financial Leadership Does the World Expect of China? Lessons from Two Historical Episodes, " In Medium- and Long-Term Development and Transformation Of the Chinese Economy, Cairncross Economic Research Foundation, 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Sovereign Bankruptcy Through the Ages," in Peter Berger, Peter Egner and Andres Resch (eds), Festschrift fur Dieter Stiefel: Die vielen Gesichter des wirtschaftlichen Wandels. Berlin: Lit Verlag, April 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth." With Poonam Gupta. India Policy Forum, Vol. 7, 2010/2011. This version published as NBER Working Paper No. 16757, Feb. 2011.

Yellow bear paw "A Critique of Pure Gold." The National Interest, September/October 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Capital Account Liberalization, Financial Development and Industry Growth: A Synthetic View." With Rachita Gullapalli and Ugo Panizza. Journal of International Money and Finance, October 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Business Cycle Behaviour in Historical Perspective: Introduction." In special issue edited with George Chouriararki and Michael Artis. The Manchester School, March 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Renminbi as an International Currency." Journal of Policy Modeling, September-October 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Fetters of Gold and Paper," with Peter Temin. 19 July 2010. Appears in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26:3, 2010.

Yellow bear paw "The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Rise of the Dollar as an International Currency, 1914-39," with Marc Flandreau. BIS Working Paper No. 328, 1 November 2010.

Yellow bear paw "Mr. Bernanke Goes to War." The National Interest, 16 December 2010.

Yellow bear paw "The Economic Impact of European Integration," with Andrea Boltho. In The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, ed. Steve Broadberry and Kevin O'Rourke (Cambridge University Press 2010).

Yellow bear paw "Globalization and the Crisis." Text of presentation at the Ninth Munich Economic Summit, "The Financial Crisis: The Way Forward," 29 April 2010.

Yellow bear paw "Lessons of the Crisis for Emerging Markets." Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper 179, 15 December 2009. Also in International Ecnomics and Economic Policy (2010).

Yellow bear paw "The G-20 and the IMF: An Uneasy Relationship." Global Asia, September 2010.

Yellow bear paw "The Financial Crisis and Global Policy Reforms." Prepared for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's conference on Asia and the Financial Crisis, Santa Barbara, California, 19-21 October 2009, and in Asia and the Financial Crisis (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 2010).

Yellow bear paw "From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons." Presented at the 50th Economic Policy Panel Meeting, held in Tilburg on October 23-24, 2009. In Economic Policy (2010).

Yellow bear paw "Central Bank Transparency: Causes, Consequences and Updates," with Nergiz Dincer. February 2009. An earlier version of this paper was presented to the conference on Money Matters: The Law, Politics and Economics of Currency, held at Tel Aviv University on 7-9 January 2009. Appears in Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2010).

Yellow bear paw "Out of the Box Thoughts about the International Financial Architecture." 1 May 2009. IMF Working Paper No. 09/116. Also in Journal of Commerce, Economics and Policy (2010).

Yellow bear paw "Managing a Multiple Reserve Currency World." In The 21st Century International Monetary System, ed. Wing Thye Woo (Asian Development Bank 2010).

Yellow bear paw "Fortifying the Financial Architecture: Unanswered Questions." Current History, January 2010, vol. 109, issue 723, p. 17.

Yellow bear paw "The Crisis and the Euro," April 2009. Edited version in Frederico Steinberg (ed.), El Euro al Rescate de Europa (2010)

 
RECENT
OP-EDS, COMMENTS
& REVIEWS

Yellow bear paw "Soft Power, Hard Choices," Caixin, 11 January 2012.

Yellow bear paw "The End of Dollar Dominance," World Finance, January/February 2012.

Yellow bear paw Review of James Boughton, Tearing Down Walls: The International Monetary Fund 1990-1999, in Finance & Development, 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Year of the Dollar?" Estado Sao Paulo, December 23, 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Disaster Can Wait," Project Syndicate, December 2011.

Yellow bear paw "A Bridge to Nowhere?" Foreign Policy Magazine OnLine, December 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Europe's Darkening Sky," Project Syndicate, November 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Can the Advanced Economies Avoid Stagnation? Only if They Try," Estadao Sao Paulo,2 October 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Coco for Europe," Project Syndicate, 10 October 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Central Banks Need a Bigger and Bolder Mandate" (with Raghuram Rajan), Financial Times, 23 October 2011.

Yellow bear paw "European Leaders' Failing Grade," Handelsblatt, 31 October 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Our Unbalanced Financial World," Bombadier Magazine, October 2011.

Yellow bear paw "What Kind of Central Bank Does Europe Need?" Handelsblatt, 14 September 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Will the Yuan Replace the Dollar as the Leading Reserve Currency within Ten Years?", Economist Debates: www.economist.com, 21 September 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Big Canolli," Eurointelligence, 22 September 2011.

Yellow bear paw "It's Time for Outsiders to Save the Single Currency" (with Peter Allen and Gary Evans), Financial Times, 5 September 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Rethinking Central Banking," (with Eswar Prasad and Raghu Rajan), VoxEU, 20 September 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Europe on the Verge of a Political Breakdown," Project Syndicate, 9 September 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Europe's Plan Won't Cut Greek Debt" (with Peter Allen and Gary Evans), Bloomberg.com (August 4, 2011).

Yellow bear paw "What Can Replace the Dollar?" Project Syndicate, 11 August 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Financial crisis: Can Asia skate through again?" East Asia Forum, 7 August 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Why Europe's Crisis Isn't Over," 26 July 2011. English version of a column in Estadao Sao Paulo, 31 July 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Greek End Game," Handelsblatt (4 July).

Yellow bear paw "A Boiling Point for the U.S. Debt Ceiling?" Caixin (July 2011).

Yellow bear paw "One-Way Euro," Australian Financial Review, 29 July 2011.

Yellow bear paw "How To Kill a Dollar." Project Syndicate, 9 June 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Full Brady." Project Syndicate, 10 May 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Imagining a World without the Dollar," Washington Post (2 May 2011).

Yellow bear paw "Selecting the Next IMF Managing Director," O Estadao Sao Paulo (22 May 2011).

Yellow bear paw "Is There Any Hope for Greece? Beyond Austerity Plans," New York Times, Room for Debate (23 May 2011).

Yellow bear paw "The Bear of Bretton Woods." Project Syndicate, 11 April 2011.

Yellow bear paw "China's Slowdown," Caixin (April 2011).

Yellow bear paw "The Next Financial Crisis." O Estado de S. Paulo, 13 March 2011 (in Portuguese).

Yellow bear paw "Slowing China." Project Syndicate, 9 March 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Euro's Debatable Future: Fix the Banks, Fix the Currency." Wall Street Journal Online, 8 March 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Why Dollar's Reign Is Near an End." Wall Street Journal, 1 March 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Europe's Month of Living Dangerously," CNBC Europe.com (14 March 2011).

Yellow bear paw "Kicking and Screaming, EU Will Move to Solidarity," CNBC Europe.com (16 March 2011).

Yellow bear paw Review of The Birth of the Euro by Otmar Issing, in Enterprise and Society, June 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Rise and Fall of the Dollar." Conversations with History, UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies video, 4 January 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Zero Hour for the Dollar," Handelsblatt, 23 February 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Why Egypt Should Worry China." Project Syndicate, 8 February 2011.

Yellow bear paw "An Ever Closer Union." Foreign Policy, 7 February 2011.

Yellow bear paw "Germany's Choice." Euro Intelligence, 14 January 2011.

Yellow bear paw "The Dollar: Dominant No More?" OUPblog, Oxford University Press, 7 January 2011.

Yellow bear paw "What China Is After Financially." East Asia Forum, 30 January 2011.

Yellow bear paw Review of More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby in Slate, 29 June 2010.

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