Barbara Fritz

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Barbara Fritz (born September 10, 1964 in Biberach an der Riss ) is a German economist specializing in Latin America and a professor at the Free University of Berlin .

academic career

Barbara Fritz studied economics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and at the Free University of Berlin, where she did her doctorate with a dissertation on "Development through exchange rate-based stabilization? The case of Brazil". Her habilitation at the University of Flensburg took place with a paper on "Beyond Growth by Debt: New Approaches to Money, Finance and Development". From 1994 to 1996 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Ibero America Customers in Hamburg (today GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies ). From 1996 to 2001 she worked at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin, from 2001 to 2005 again at the GIGA in Hamburg. In 2005 she was appointed to a junior professorship at the Free University of Berlin, where she has been a full professor at the Faculty of Economics and the Latin America Institute since 2010. From October 2009 to April 2010 she was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in Geneva. She is currently the Chair of the Institute Council of the Latin America Institute.

Barbara Fritz researches economic development and monetary issues in Latin America and other regions of the world. She is a founding member of the "Graduate School of East Asian Studies", member of the board of directors of the German-Peruvian post-graduate program "TrAndes" Berlin, senior scholar of the research group "The Transformative Power of Europe", co-director of the research center in Brazil for the Free University of Berlin and co-director of the DAAD network "Comparative Economic Development Studies".

Publications

Books

  • A Moment of Equality for Latin America? Challenges and Limits for Redistributive Policies . Burlington: Ashgate, 2015 (ed. With Lena Lavinas) ISBN 978-1-4724-4672-5 Description in the online catalog
  • Coping with Crises: Variations of Financial Crisis Management at the Regional Level . Special Issue of Contemporary Politics 21 (2), 2015 (ed. With Arie Krampf)
  • New Issues in Regional Monetary Coordination: Understanding North-South and South-South Arrangements . London / New York: Palgrave, 2006 (ed. With Martina Metzger) Description in the online catalog ISBN 978-0-230-50244-4
  • Economy under the conditions of Latin America - money and credit, social policy and the environment . Frankfurt / Madrid: Vervuert, 2005 (edited with Katja Hujo) ISBN 3-86527-199-5
  • Development through exchange rate-based stabilization? The case of Brazil . Studies on monetary economics, Vol. 28, Marburg: Metropolis, 2002 ISBN 3-89518-404-7 content and reviews
  • Inflation and Stabilization in Brazil. Problems of a changing society . Series of publications by the Institute for Ibero America Customers Volume 43, Frankfurt / Madrid: Vervuert, 1996 (Ed. With Gilberto Calcagnotto) ISBN 978-3-89354-243-7

Articles (selection)

  • Developmentalism at the Periphery: Can Productive Change and Income Redistribution be Compatible with Global Financial Asymmetries? desigualdades Working Paper No. 101, 2017 (with D. Prates and LF de Paula) full text
  • The IMF to the Rescue: Did the Euro Area benefit from the Fund's Experience in Crisis fighting? . School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin, Discussion Paper 2016/20 full text
  • Safety for Whom? The Scattered Global Financial Safety Net and the Role of Regional Financial Arrangements . KFG Working Paper Series, No. 75, September 2016, Kolleg Research Group (KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe”, Freie Universität Berlin (with Laurissa Mühlich) full text
  • Beyond capital controls: The regulation of foreign currency derivatives markets in south Korea and Brazil after the global financial crisis. CEPAL Review 118, April 2016, 183 - 201 (with Daniela Prates) full text . Spanish version in: Revista CEPAL 118, 193 - 213 full text
  • Remittances for Financial Access: Lessons from Latin American Microfinance , in: Development Policy Review 32 (6), November 2014, p. 733-753 (with Christian Ambrosius and Ursula Stiegler) doi: 10.1111 / dpr.12087
  • What do they know of England who only England know? Comparative regional research as a key competence in an intertwined world (together with Bert Hoffmann), in: Markus Hochmüller et al. (ed.), Politics in Interwoven Spaces / Los espacios entrelazados de lo político. Festschrift for Marianne Braig , Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey / edition tranvía 2013, p. 156-170 ISBN 978-3-938944-79-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graduate School of East Asian Studies. May 28, 2011, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ TRANDS. October 28, 2016, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ People (former). May 14, 2008, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  4. ^ Research Center Brazil. April 17, 2009, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ DAAD program “Subject-related partnerships with universities in developing countries”. (pdf) In: www.daad.de. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fritz, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss