Eswar Prasad
Research Fellow
|
|
Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in International Economics, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was previously Chief of the Financial Studies Division in the IMF’s Research Department and before that was the head of the IMF’s China division. Eswar Prasad received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research has spanned a number of areas including labor economics, business cycles, and open economy macroeconomics. His extensive publication record includes articles in numerous collective volumes as well as top academic journals such as the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics etc. He has edited numerous books and monographs on China, Hong Kong and India. His current research interests include the macroeconomics of globalization, monetary and exchange rate policies in emerging markets, and the Chinese and Indian economies. He has testified before the Senate Finance Committee, the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and his research has been cited in the U.S. Congressional Record. He was a member of the analytical team that drafted the 2008 report of the High-Level Committee on Financial Sector Reforms set up by the Government of India. Many of his research papers and quotes from his speeches have been cited extensively in wire service stories as well as prominent media outlets including Business Week, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today and numerous other international and regional newspapers. He has contributed op-ed articles to the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal Asia and various other newspapers. He has made frequent appearances on BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox, NBC, NPR, PBS, Reuters and other radio and television channels. Eswar Prasad has served as the co-editor of the journal IMF Staff Papers, was on the editorial board of Finance & Development and was the founding editor of the quarterly IMF Research Bulletin. He has been a Research Fellow of IZA since 2002. |
|||
| Email | CV | Homepage | ||||
| IZA Discussion Papers: | ||||
|
Title | |||
|
Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation under Incomplete Markets |
|||
|
Rebalancing Growth in Asia |
|||
|
Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration (forthcoming in: Journal of International Money and Finance) |
|||
|
Financial Globalization and Economic Policies (published in: Dani Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig (eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 5, The Netherlands: North-Holland, 2010, 4283-4362.) |
|||
|
India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization (published in: Brookings India Policy Forum, August 2009) |
|||
|
Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth? (published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2009, 28 (4), 554-580) |
|||
|
A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization (published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22 (3), 149-172) |
|||
|
Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling? |
|||
|
Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising? (published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 93-130) |
|||
|
Foreign Capital and Economic Growth (published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2007 (1), 153-230) |
|||
|
Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last? (published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (1), 103-123) |
|||
|
How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? Patterns and Channels (published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89 (2), 258-270) |
|||
|
How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship between Growth and Volatility? (published in: Journal of International Economics, 2006, 69 (1), 176-202) |
|||
|
Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm (published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 331-336) |
|||
|
How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles? (published in: American Economic Review, 2003, 93 (2), 57-62) |
|||
|
What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data (published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe: Proceedings of the ECB's Annual Labor Market Workshop, London: Edward Elgar, 2004) |
|||
|
Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99 (published in: IMF Staff Papers, 2002, 49 (3), 339-362) |
|||
|
Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition (published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 80 (2), 389-427) |
|||
|
Identifying the Common Component of International Economic Fluctuations: A New Approach (published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (484), 101-127) |
|||
|
Inequality, Transfers and Growth: New Evidence from the Economic Transition in Poland (published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002, 84 (2), 324-341) |
|||
| IZA Policy Papers: | ||||
|
Title | |||
|
An Awkward Dance: China and the United States |
|||
| Login | ||||
