Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Eduardo Levy Yeyati (born November 14, 1965) is an Argentine economist and writer. He is currently Visiting Professor of Public Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Economics of Universidad de Buenos Aires and at the School of Business of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella,^[1] where he also directed its Center for Financial Research from 1999 to 2007, and Director at Elypsis,^[2] an economic research firm that he founded in 2011. Since November 2013, he is the President of the Board of CIPPEC, a think tank based in Argentina.

Prior to that, he was Head of Emerging Markets Strategy and Head of Latin American Research at Barclays Capital (2007–2010),^[3] Senior Financial Sector Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean at The World Bank (2006–2007), Senior Research Fellow for the Inter-American Development Bank (2005–2006),^[4] and Chief Economist at the Central Bank of Argentina (2002). He has also worked as economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as an expert for the World Bank, the IADB, the IMF, CAF, the OECD and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, among many other institutions and governments. He also was Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution,^[5] and Guest Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics,.^[6]

He holds a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Publications

His academic work on emerging market banking and finance have been published in American Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, and Economic Policy, among other international refereed journals, and is ranked at the top by RePEc among Argentina's economists.^[7] His research have focused on financial dollarization, the behavior of banks and financial markets during crises, international financial architecture, monetary and exchange rate regimes and development finance. Together with Federico Sturzenegger, he prepared a popular classification of de facto exchange rate regimes, and contributed the monetary and exchange rate policy chapter of the last edition of the Handbook of Development Economics. His writes regularly for Vox EU and Project Syndicate.

In Spanish, he has published two essays on Argentina's recent political and economic history, one on the 2002 crisis and its aftermath with the historian Diego Valenzuela (La resurrección: La historia de la poscrisis Argentina, 2007, Ed. Sudamericana)^[8] and another one on the decline of the post crisis economic boom with historian Marcos Novaro (Vamos por Todo: La 10 decisiones más polémicas del modelo, 2013, Ed. Sudamericana),^[9] as well as two novels: Gallo (2008, Ed. Random House Mondadori) ^[10][11] and Culebrón (2013, Ed. Random House Mondadori).^[12][13] He also contributes to the main local newspapers.^[14][15][16]

References

External links

• Academic publications
• Las pistas falsas
• El enigma de las vidas ajenas
• Después de la crisis, la hora de la verdad
• Vox columns
• Project Syndicate columns
• "Redefining 'emerging markets'"