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Barry Eichengreen

Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley and CEPR

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 a CEPR Research Fellow, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials. In 1997-1998, he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund.

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. He is also the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris.

His research interests are broad-ranging, and include exchange rates and capital flows, the gold standard and the Great Depression; European economics, Asian integration and development with a focus on exchange rates and financial markets, the impact of China on the international economic and financial system, and IMF policy, past, present and future.

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Barry Eichengreen's Latest Articles | 9

Rethinking Central Banking

Sep 20, 2011| 

Central banks have massively broadened their remit in recent crisis-laden years, but the standard analytic framework – ‘flexible inflation targeting’ – has... Read »

Ireland’s Rescue Package: Disaster for Ireland, Bad Omen for the Eurozone

Dec 4, 2010| 

Irish interest spreads did not fall and contagion continues. Here one of the world’s leading international economists explains why. Short-sighted, wishful thinking... Read »

From Currency Warfare to Lasting Peace

Sep 30, 2010| 

The ‘international currency war’ mentioned by Brazil’s finance minister poses massive dangers for the world trade and financial systems. This... Read »

Fetters of Gold and Paper

Jul 30, 2010| 

The world economy is experiencing tensions arising from inflexible exchange rates – particularly the dollar-renminbi peg and the Eurozone. Drawing on lessons from... Read »

How Housing Slumps End

Jul 23, 2010| 

The world’s current economic problems started when housing bubbles burst in several advanced economies. Economic recovery without housing market recovery is... Read »

The Impact of New Exchange Rate Regime on China’s Economy

Jun 22, 2010| 

China’s announcement of greater renminbi flexibility was welcomed by US and European leaders. This column discusses new empirical research on what happens to economies... Read »

Drawing a Line Under Europe’s Crisis

Jun 17, 2010| 

Financial crises feed on uncertainty. This essay warns that the longer the Eurozone crisis is allowed to linger, the greater will be the damage. But Europe can take... Read »

A Tale of Two Depressions (Part II)

Jun 4, 2009| 

This is an update of the authors’ 6 April 2009 column comparing today’s global crisis to the Great Depression. World industrial production, trade, and... Read »

A Tale of Two Depressions (Part I)

Apr 6, 2009| 

Often cited comparisons – which look only at the US – find that today’s crisis is milder than the Great Depression. In this column, two leading economic historians... Read »

The Protectionist Temptation: Lessons from the Great Depression

Mar 17, 2009| 

What do we know about the spread of protectionism during the Great Depression and what are the implications for today’s crisis? This column says the lesson is... Read »

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