Hans Genberg

Hans Genberg (* 1948 in Örnsköldsvik ) is a Swedish economist.

Life

Genberg is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies and the International Center for Financial Asset Management and Engineering FAME in Geneva . After graduating from school in Sweden, Genberg studied in the USA, where he first received a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota) and then a Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. in economics.

Genberg was visiting professor at the Graduate Business School at the Universities of Chicago and Lausanne , and was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank . From 1995 to 1998 he was director at the International Center for Monetary and Banking Center (ICMB) in Geneva.

He is married and has two grown children.

Selected publications

• "Inflation Targeting - The Holy Grail of Monetary Policy?", Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research Working Paper No. 2, 2002 and in the Journal of Policy Reform , Vol. 5, No. 3, 2002, pp. 161-71.
• "Inflation in Hong Kong, SAR - in search of a transmission mechanism", (with Laurent Pauwels), Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research Working Paper No. 1, 2003
• with Alexander Swoboda: "Exchange-Rate Regimes: Does What Countries Say Matter?", Graduate Institute of International Studies , 2004.
• with Arjan Kadareja: "The Swiss Franc and the Euro" In: R. Baldwin and A. Brunetti (eds.) Economic Impact of EU membership on Entrants, New Methods and Issues . Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
• "Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stability" In: De Economist , 141, no. 4, 2002, pp. 433-53.
• with Stephen Cecchetti and Sushil Wadhwani: "Asset Prices in a Flexible Inflation Targeting Framework" In: W. Hunter, G. Kaufman and M. Pomerleano (eds.) Asset Price Bubbles . Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
• "Inflation Targeting - the Holy Grail of Monetary Policy?" In: Journal of Policy Reform , 2003
• "Currency substitution in anticipation of EU accession" In: G. von Furstenberg (ed.) Euro and Dollarization: Forms of Monetary Union in Integrating Regions . London: CEPR.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Genberg in the catalog of the German National Library