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| Anton Korinek has been an assistant professor of economics at the University of Maryland since 2007, after receiving
his PhD from Columbia University. His research focuses on international finance and macroeconomics, with special
emphasis on financial crises. In his current work, he focuses on capital controls and macroprudential regulation as
policy measures that are designed to reduce the risk of financial crises. Anton Korinek is a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the World Bank, the IMF and the BIS. He has won several fellowships and awards
for this work, most recently from the Institute for New Economic Thinking. |
Latest News
Oct. 2012 Work on Capital Controls featured in the Economist Magazine's "Free Exchange"
July 2012 Researcher Profile "Capturing the Complexity of Crises" on bridges [HTML | MP3]
Apr. 2012 Appointed as a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics
Dec. 2011 Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET & CIGI) to study "Capital Controls and the International Monetary System" ($140k)
Latest Research [click for more research]
The Redistributive Effects of Financial Deregulation [PDF | Slides | Video], April 2013, with Jonathan Kreamer
Financial deregulation and risk-taking allows the financial sector to extract rents from the rest of society
Macroprudential Regulation Versus Mopping Up After the Crash [PDF | NBER WP], Dec. 2012, with Olivier Jeanne
It
is optimal for policymakers to use a mix of ex-ante prudential measures
and ex-post stimulus measures to respond to financial crises
An introduction to the emerging new literature on prudential capital controls in emerging economies - cited in the FT's Economists' Forum, the Economist's Free Exchange
Systemic Risk-Taking: Amplification Effects, Externalities, and Regulatory Responses, [2011 ECB WP | update], revise and resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies
Theoretical foundations for macro-prudential regulation of systemic risk-taking
Managing Credit Booms and Busts: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach [2010 NBER WP | update], with Olivier Jeanne
A dynamic model of counter-cyclical macro-prudential regulation for credit markets - cited in the Economist's Economics Focus, WSJ.com
Latest Columns [click for more columns]
Managing Credit Booms and Busts [VoxEU], with Olivier Jeanne, November 2010
Curriculum Vitae [click here]