ROBERTO CHANG

Professor I
Department of Economics
Rutgers University
75 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 932 7269
chang@econ.rutgers.edu

Personal Information

•  Click here for a copy of my CV

• Course syllabus
• Slides for recent evidence on global imbalances
• Guidelines for course project. Deadline: April 14th
  

Links to some of my recent papers

• Inflation Targeting, Reserves Accumulation, and Exchange Rate Management in Latin America . New! Prepared for the Latin American Reserves Fund.
  
• Openness Can be Good for Growth: The Role of Policy Complementarities. (with Linda Kaltani and Norman Loayza) Revised, December 2007. We argue that trade opening, if accompanied by other complementary reforms, does result in faster growth in developing countries.
• An entry on dollarization for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition.
  
• Final version of  Financial Crises and Political Crises (forthcoming, Journal of Monetary Economics). Appendix.
  
• Electoral Uncertainty and the Volatility of International Capital Flows develops a theoretical model of the interactions between elections, distributional conflict, and international capital movements. This revision allows for factor rewards to be derived endogenously, and for a continuous distribution of wealth.
  

Last revision of this page: 3/11/08