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Barry Eichengreen

Professor of Economics and
Political Science of Political Science

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is also 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 Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997). He is the chairman 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). Professor Eichengreen has published widely on the history and current operation of the international monetary and financial system. His books include Capital Flows and Crises (MIT Press, 2003), Financial Crises and What to Do About Them (Oxford University Press, 2002), and Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 (Oxford University Press, 1992). 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.

Recent Books

• Other People's Money: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies (with Ricardo Hausmann), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
• The Korean Economy Beyond the Crisis (with Duck-Koo Chung), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004.
• Capital Flows and Crises (MIT Press, 2003)

Recent Articles

• China's New Exchange Rate Regime," Current History (September 2005).
• "Should Emerging Markets Float? Can They Inflation Target?" in Rebecca Driver, Peter Sinclair and Chrisoph Thoenissen (eds), Exchange Rates, Capital Flows and Policy (Routledge 2005).
• "The Impact of China on the Exports of Other Asian Economies" (with Yeongseop Rhee and Hui Tong), in Yonghyup Oh, Deok Ryong Yoon and Thomas Willett (eds), Monetary and Exchange Rate Arrangements in East Asia (KIEP, 2005).
• "The Great Depression as a Credit Boom Gone Wrong" (with Kris Mitchener), Research in Economic History (2004).
• "Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods," Deserallo Economico (in Spanish), 2004.