Professor Carmen M. Reinhart
School of Public Policy and
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
4105 Van Munching Hall
College Park, Maryland
20742
Tel: (301) 405-7006
Fax: (301) 403-8107
Email: creinhar@umd.edu
Carmen M. Reinhart is Professor of
Economics at the School
of Public Policy and the Department
of Economics at the University of
Maryland. She 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 the
Journal of
International Economics, among
others. She received her Ph.D. from
Columbia
University. Professor Reinhart 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. She has written and published on a variety of
topics in macroeconomics and international finance and trade
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 leading
scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review,
the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal
of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her
work is frequently featured in the financial press around the
world, including The Economist,
The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New
York Times, and The
Wall Street Journal. She is currently working (with Kenneth S.
Rogoff) on a book on the history of financial crises entitled
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.
