Carmen M. Reinhart
Nationality USA
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of Maryland
FieldInternational economics

Carmen M. Reinhart (born October 7, 1955) is currently Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland.

Professor Reinhart is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and theJournal of International Economics, among others. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She held positions as Chief Economist and Vice President at the investment bank Bear Stearns and more recently, as Deputy Director at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.

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She has written and published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and international finance including: international capital flows, capital controls, inflation and commodity prices, banking and sovereign debt crises, currency crashes, and contagion. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her work is featured in the financial press, including The Economist [1], Newsweek [2], The Washington Post [3], and The Wall Street Journal [4] among others. Her latest book (with Kenneth Rogoff) Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly studied the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history.

Personal Information edit

  • Born in Havana, Cuba
  • Married to Vincent Raymond Reinhart
  • One child (William Raymond)

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