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Guillermo Calvo
Alma materYale University (PhD, MA)
OccupationProfessor Emeritus
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsColumbia University

Guillermo Calvo, Director of Columbia University's mid-career Program in Economic Policy Management in their School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), is a noted economist specializing in the macroeconomics of emerging market and transition economies.

Biography

Calvo rejoined the faculty at Columbia University in January 2007, where he previously was a member of the faculty from 1973 to 1986.

Before coming back to Columbia, Calvo was Director of the Center for International Economics and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland; Chief Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, Senior Advisor in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund; and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

In addition, Calvo is a member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Económicas, Argentina, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the former President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), and the current President of the International Economic Association.

Calvo has testified before the United States Congress on dollarization and on the 1994 Mexican crisis and has served as an economic advisor to several governments in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

He has received Honors including the Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1980-1981 and the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics in 2000.

Contributions to Economic Science

Calvo's 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.

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