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

Links to some of my recent papers

• Elections, Capital Flows, and Politico Economic Equilibria Forthcoming, American Economic Review. A simplified exposition of the interactions between elections and capital flows. 
• On the Sources of Fluctuations in Emerging Economies (with Andrés Fernández) New! An empirical investigation of stochastic trends versus financial frictions as explanations of emerging markets fluctuations.
• Inflation Targeting, Reserves Accumulation, and Exchange Rate Management in Latin America . Prepared for the Latin American Reserves Fund.
• Openness Can be Good for Growth: The Role of Policy Complementarities. (with Linda Kaltani and Norman Loayza) Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming 2009. 
• 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.

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