Barry Eichengreen
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Barry Eichengreen George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley |
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). In 1997-98 he was a Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997). He is the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials. He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). His books include Bond Markets in Latin America: On the Verge of a Big Bang? (2008), co-edited with Eduardo Borensztein, Kevin Cowan, and Ugo Panizza, China, Asia, and the New World Economy, co-edited with Charles Wyplosz and Yung Chul Park (2008); The European Economy in an American Mirror, co-edited with Michael Landesmann and Dieter Stiefel (2007); The European Economy since 1945 (2006); and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (2006). He was awarded the Economic History Association's Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2002 and the University of California at Berkeley Social Science Division's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004. He is also the recipient of a Doctor Honoris Causa from the American University in Paris.
Introduced by: Deepa Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of marketing, Department of Marketing
Interviewed by: Anthony O’Brien, professor of economics, Department of Economics
