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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 has won several fellowships and awards
for this work. During the academic year 2011/12, he is on leave, visiting the IMF, the World Bank, and Harvard. |
Latest News
Dec. 2011 Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET & CIGI) to study "Capital Controls and the International Monetary System"
Nov. 2011 Check out my graduate students on the job market
Latest Research [click for more research]
It is optimal for policymakers to use a mix of ex-ante prudential measures and ex-post stimulus measures to respond to financial crises
The New Economics of Prudential Capital Controls [PDF | Publication | Kindle], IMF Economic Review 59(3), August 2011.
An introduction to the emerging new literature on prudential capital controls in emerging economies - cited in the FT's Economists' Forum
Systemic Risk-Taking: Amplification Effects, Externalities, and Regulatory Responses, January 2011
Theoretical foundations for macro-prudential regulation of systemic risk-taking
Managing Credit Booms and Busts: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach [2010 NBER WP | Nov. 2011 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
Regulating Capital Flows to Emerging Markets: An Externality View, May 2010 A welfare-theoretic framework of capital flow regulation to reduce financial fragility in emerging market economies
Latest Columns [click for more columns]
Managing Credit Booms and Busts [VoxEU], with Olivier Jeanne, November 2010
Curriculum Vitae [click here]