Bachelor's in Economics and Philosophy and Master's in International Relations, Yale University; PhD in Economics, Columbia University; postdoctoral studies, Harvard University and MIT. Formerly: Director, New York University Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Public Affairs, Columbia University; 1990-92, Minister of Finance Chief of Staff; Chile; 1992-94, International Finance Coordinator; 1995, NAFTA Negotiator; 2001-06, Associate Researcher, Corporation for Latin-American Research, Cieplan; President, Corporación Expansiva, a Chilean think tank; since 2006, current position; Sumitomo-FASID Professor of Development and International Finance, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; 2006-07, President, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association; Consultant: International Monetary Fund; Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank; governments of Dominican Republic, Mexico, El Salvador. Recipient of award, Excellence in Research, Inter-American Development Bank (2006). Author of papers.
The recession that Latin America is now confronting as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic is not a typical economic slump. This year, output across the region will be 10% lower than was fo...
Randomized controlled trials are the flavor of the month in development economics, with their keenest advocates having just been awarded the Nobel Prize. But can this experimental approac...
In Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor’s fictional American town, all the children are above average. And life imitates art, not only in America – and not only for the young. In survey after s...
Nosotros, los latinoamericanos, tenemos tendencia a quejarnos. Nos inquieta pensar que la suerte de otros puede ser peor que la nuestra, pero si un latinoamericano examina el mundo de hoy...
Cuando se produjo el fallido golpe en Turquía el año pasado, le escribí a un amigo de esa nación para expresarle mi preocupación. Lo que contestó me dejó pensando. "Tienes mucha suerte de...
A la prensa internacional le ha resultado difícil etiquetar las posturas políticas de Emanuel Macron, el ganador de la primera ronda en las elecciones presidenciales de Francia. Algunos l...
¿De qué modo debería responder América Latina al enfoque de “Estados Unidos primero” que el presidente Donald Trump propugna para la economía global? He aquí una posible respuesta: establ...
From Austria, France and the United States, to Poland, the Philippines, and Peru, illiberal populists are on the rise. Some blame runaway globalization; others blame income inequality; st...
This is supposed to be the era of powerful central banks, ready to wield their firepower worldwide. Yet the most powerful of all central banks – the United States Federal Reserve – is als...
There was a time when it might have been said that Puerto Rico, in the midst of a wrenching debt crisis, was returning to its Latin roots. After all, Latin American governments were once ...
