Professor Neumeyer speech at the ceremony in which I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Universidad Di Tella, August 30, 2012 (in Spanish)
New Policy Papers
US Unemployment: Neither Natural Nor Unnatural, July 2012
Creation and Destruction of Liquidity (in Spanish), July 2012.
New Research
The Labor Market Consequences of Financial Crises With or Without Inflation:
Jobless and Wageless Recoveries, October 25, 2012
On Capital Inflows, Liquidity and Bubbles, October 15, 2012
The Price Theory of Money, Prospero’s Liquidity Trap, and Sudden Stop, July 2012
Optimal Holdings Of International Reserves: Self-Insurance Against Sudden Stop, July 2012
Financial Crises and Liquidity Shocks: A Bank-Run Perspective
November 25, 2011
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Biography
Guillermo Calvo is Professor of Economics, International and Public Affairs, and Director of the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) at Columbia University since January 2007. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (2001-2006), President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, LACEA, 2000-2001, and President of the International Economic Association, IEA, 2005-2008. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Yale in 1974.
He was professor of economics at Columbia University (1973-1986), the University of Pennsylvania (1986-1989), and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland (1993-2006). He was Senior Advisor in the Research Department of the IMF (1988-1993), and afterwards advised several governments in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Honors include: Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 1980-1981, King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics in 2000, LACEA 2006 Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize; and fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Economic Sciences (Argentina). On April 15-16, 2004, the Research Department of the IMF sponsored a conference in his honor.
He has testified before the U.S. Congress on dollarization and the 1994 Mexican crisis.
His main field of expertise is macroeconomics of Emerging Market and Transition Economies. His recent work has dealt extensively with capital flows and balance-of-payments crises in Emerging Market Economies. He has published several books and more than 100 articles in leading economic journals. His latest book “Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?” was published in 2005 by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.