Professor, Maryland School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics

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Expertise
Issues of currency and banking crises, financial liberalization, capital flows, and policies designed to cope with volatile international capital movements, including capital controls

Dr. Reinhart is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of International Economics and the World Bank Economic Review. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and lecturer at the Harvard Institute for International Development. She was vice president at the investment bank Bear Stearns, where she worked as an economist and portfolio strategist for several years before joining the International Monetary Fund in 1988. At the Fund, she published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and international finance and trade; including capital flows to emerging markets, capital controls, inflation stabilization, currency and banking crises, and contagion. She is published in leading scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy , and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her new book (with co-authors Morris Goldstein and Graciela Kaminsky), is Assessing Financial Vulnerability: An Early Warning System for Emerging Markets.