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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 From Miracle to Maturity: The Growth of the Korean Economy, with Dwight H. Perkins and Kwanho Shin. Harvard University Press, November 2012.

Yellow bear paw The World Economy after the Global Crisis: A New Economic Order for the 21st Century, co-edited with Bokyeong Park. World Scientific Books, April 2012.

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.

 
RECENT
PAPERS & ARTICLES

Yellow bear paw "Currency War or International Policy Coordination?" Journal of Policy Modeling (2013).

Yellow bear paw "The Bretton Woods System," in Randall Parker and Robert Whaples eds, Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History (Routledge 2013).

Yellow bear paw Foreword to the 40th Anniversary Edition of Charles Kindleberger, The World in Depression (with J. Bradford DeLong), Berkeley: University of California Press (2013).

Yellow bear paw "The Architecture and Governance of Financial Supervision: Sources and Implications," International Finance (2013).

Yellow bear paw "Financial Crises and the Multilateral Response: What the Historical Record Shows" (with Bergljot Markbu and Ashoka Mody), Journal of International Economics (2012).

Yellow bear paw "Macroeconomic and Financial Policies Before and After the Crisis," in Maurice Obstfeld, Dongchul Cho and Andrew Mason (eds), Global Economic Crisis: Impacts, Transmission and Recovery, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2012).

Yellow bear paw "Lessons of the Crisis for Emerging Markets," in Masahiro Kawai, Mario Bamberte and Yung Chul Park (eds), The Global Financial Crisis and Asia: Implications and Challenges, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012).

Yellow bear paw "Banks and Cross Border Capital Flows: Policy Challenges and Regulatory Responses." Second report of the Committee on International Monetary Policy and Reform (Funded by Sloan Foundation and published by Brookings Institution), September 2012.

Yellow bear paw "Government, Business and Finance in Korean Industrial Development." International Economic Journal (September 2012).

Yellow bear paw "Is the Age of Dollar Dominance Coming to an End?" Global Financial Institute White Paper, Frankfurt: Deutsche Bank (2012).

Yellow bear paw "Asia's Role in the Post Crisis Global Economy: Closing Remarks," in Reuven Glick and Mark Spiegel (eds.), Asia's Role in the Post-Crisis Global Economy, San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2012).

Yellow bear paw "When Did the Dollar Overtake the Pound Sterling as the Leading International Currency: The Old View Versus the New View" (with Livia Chitu and Arnaud Mehl), in European Central Bank, The International Role of the Euro 2012 (2012).

Yellow bear paw "Avoiding the Middle Income Trap," in Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Achieving Maximum Long Run Growth (2012).

Yellow bear paw "Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater: Implications of the Euro Crisis for Asian Monetary Integration," Journal of Economic Integration (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2012).

Yellow bear paw "The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth" (with Poonam Gupta), Oxford Economic Papers (2012).

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 "Economic History and Economic Policy," Journal of Economic History (June 2012).

Yellow bear paw "Flexing Your Muscles: Abandoning a Fixed Exchange Rate for Greater Flexibility" (with Andrew Rose), NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2011 (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Yellow bear paw "International Liquidity in a Multipolar World," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (2012).

Yellow bear paw "Implications of the Euro Crisis for International Monetary Reform," Journal of Policy Modeling (2012).

Yellow bear paw "The Once and Future Dollar," American Interest (May/June 2012).

Yellow bear paw "European Monetary Integration with Benefit of Hindsight," Journal of Common Market Studies (2012).

Yellow bear paw "How Reliable are De Facto Exchange Rate Regime Classifications?" (with Raul Razo-Garcia), International Journal of Finance and Economics (2012).

Yellow bear paw "How the Subprime Crisis Went Global: Evidence from Bank Credit Default Spreads" (with Ashoka Mody and Luio Sarno, Journal of International Money and Finance (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 "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 "When Currencies Collapse," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2012.

Yellow bear paw "Imbalances in the Euro Area." 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 "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 "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.

 
RECENT
OP-EDS, COMMENTS
& REVIEWS

Yellow bear paw "Is the Middle Income Trap about To Be Sprung?" International Affairs Forum (March 2013).

Yellow bear paw "Economics for Our Children," Project Syndicate (8 February 2013).

Yellow bear paw "Giving Abe's Policy a Chance," Caixen (February 2013).

Yellow bear paw "Indian Banks and the Global Crisis," Financial Express (with Poonam Gupta (25 January 2013).

Yellow bear paw "The Dollar's Limited Reprieve," The Diplomat (23 January 2013).

Yellow bear paw The Renminbi Challenge, Project Syndicate October 2012.

Yellow bear paw The Wisdom of Silence, CaixinOnline September 24, 2012.

Yellow bear paw Audit the Fed?, Project Syndicate September 2012.

Yellow bear paw Europe’s Summer Reading List, Project Syndicate August 2012.

Yellow bear paw Europe’s Divided Visionaries, Project Syndicate July 2012.

Yellow bear paw What Europe's Crisis Means for Asia, CaixinOnline July 2, 2012.

Yellow bear paw Share the Work, Project Syndicate June 2012.

Yellow bear paw Is Europe on a Cross of Gold?, Project Syndicate May 2012.

Yellow bear paw China’s Century or America’s?, East Asia Forum April 15, 2012.

Yellow bear paw The ECB’s Lethal Inhibition, Project Syndicate April 2012.

Yellow bear paw Europe's Trust Deficit, Project Syndicate 12 March 2012.

Yellow bear paw Europe’s Greek Pantomine(in Portuguese), Estado Sao Paulo February 26, 2012.

Yellow bear paw Europe’s Tobin Tax Distraction, Project Syndicate February 2012.

Yellow bear paw Soft Power and Hard Choices, CaixinOnline January 11, 2012.

Yellow bear paw Europe’s Vicious Spirals, Project Syndicate January 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.

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