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Carlos A. Vegh

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Monetary Economics

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#117

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Macroeconomics

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#367

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PhD Economics University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Carlos A. Végh is a Uruguayan academic economist who, since 2013, is the Fred H. Sanderson Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies , and holds a joint appointment with Johns Hopkins' Department of Economics. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1998. He was the World Bank's chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean from February 1, 2017 to June 30, 2019, while on leave from Johns Hopkins. He was previously a professor of economics and vice-chair of undergraduate studies at UCLA and professor of economics at the University of Maryland . His research work on monetary and fiscal policy in emerging and developing countries has been highly influential in both academic and policy circles. In particular, his work on fiscal procyclicality in emerging markets has been instrumental in generating a copious literature on the subject, which has influenced the adoption of fiscal rules in many emerging markets.

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Carlos A. Vegh's Published Works

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Tax base variability and procyclical fiscal policy in developing countries (2005) (674)
The Unholy Trinity of Financial Contagion (2003) (656)
Stabilization and Growth in Transition Economies: The Early Experience (1996) (511)
Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction? (2008) (501)
Tax Base Variability and Procyclical Fiscal Policy (1998) (395)
On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality (2011) (390)
Inflation Stabilization and Bop Crises in Developing Countries (1998) (331)
Currency Substitution in Developing Countries: An Introduction (1992) (312)
Real Effects of Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization: An Analysis of Competing Theories (1995) (294)
Stopping High Inflation: An Analytical Overview (1991) (283)
Banks and Macroeconomic Disturbances Under Predetermined Exchange Rates (1997) (253)
Targeting the Real Exchange Rate: Theory and Evidence (1994) (226)
Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization Under Imperfect Credibility (1991) (193)
Nominal interest rates, consumption booms, and lack of credibility: A quantitative examination (1995) (174)
How is Tax Policy Conducted Over the Business Cycle? (2012) (163)
INFLATION STABILIZATION AND NOMINAL ANCHORS (1994) (161)
From Transition to Market: Evidence and Growth Prospects (1998) (147)
Economies in Transition: The Beginnings of Growth (1996) (142)
Procyclical and Countercyclical Fiscal Multipliers: Evidence from OECD Countries (2014) (131)
How Far is Eastern Europe from Brussels? (1998) (128)
Dollarization in Transition Economies: Evidence and Policy Implications (1995) (121)
Chapter 24 Inflation stabilization and bop crises in developing countries (1999) (103)
Delaying the Inevitable: Interest Rate Defense and Balance of Payments Crises (2003) (96)
Credibility and the Dynamics of Stabilization Policy: A Basic Framework (1990) (88)
Living with the Fear of Floating: An Optimal Policy Perspective (2001) (85)
Reserve Requirement Policy Over the Business Cycle (2014) (83)
Overcoming the Fear of Free Falling: Monetary Policy Graduation in Emerging Markets (2012) (83)
Disinflation and the Recession-Now-Versus-Recession-Later Hypothesis: Evidence from Uruguay (1995) (81)
Tax Multipliers: Pitfalls in Measurement and Identification (2012) (81)
Fighting Inflation with High Interest Rates: The Small Open Economy Case under Flexible Prices (1995) (77)
The optimal inflation tax when money reduces transactions costs: A reconsideration (1993) (76)
Targeting the real exchange rate (1994) (73)
Inflation Stabilization and the Consumption of Durable Goods (1997) (65)
The optimal inflation tax in the presence of currency substitution (1989) (64)
Segmented Asset Markets and Optimal Exchange Rate Regimes (2007) (64)
Stabilization Dynamics and Backward-Looking Contracts (1993) (62)
Government Spending and Inflationary Finance: A Public Finance Approach (1988) (62)
Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale (2008) (62)
Delaying the Inevitable: Optimal Interest Rate Policy and Bop Crises (2000) (60)
The Road to Redemption: Policy Response to Crises in Latin America (2014) (54)
What If Alexander Hamilton Had Been Argentinean? A Comparison of the Early Monetary Experiences of Argentina and the United States (1998) (54)
Inflation Stabilisation and the Consumption of Durable Goods (1998) (49)
Inflation and Stabilization in Transition Economies: A Comparison with Market Economies (1995) (46)
Capital Flows in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence and Policy Options (1995) (44)
When is it Optimal to Abandon a Fixed Exchange Rate? (2002) (44)
The Exchange Rate Response to Monetary Policy Innovations (2016) (38)
Losing Credibility: The Stabilization Blues (1992) (37)
Dual Exchange Markets Under Incomplete Separation: An Optimizing Model (1989) (36)
Inflation stabilization in chronic inflation countries: The empirical evidence (1994) (36)
Is the Public Investment Multiplier Higher in Developing Countries? An Empirical Exploration (2019) (36)
Output Costs, Currency Crises and Interest Rate Defence of a Peg (2007) (35)
Unsticking the Flypaper Effect in an Uncertain World (2015) (34)
Intertemporal consumption substitution and inflation stabilization:An empirical investigation (1994) (32)
Decoupling and Recoupling (2010) (31)
Monetary Policy, Interest Rate Rules, and Inflation Targeting: Some Basic Equivalences (2001) (30)
Macroeconomic Interdependence Under Capital Controls: A Two-Country Model of Dual Exchange Rates (1988) (27)
Interest Rate Policy in a Small Open Economy: The Predetermined Exchange Rates Case (1990) (27)
Non-Linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output: The Role of the Initial Level of Taxation (2018) (25)
Do Exchange Rate-Based Stabilizations Carry the Seeds of Their Own Destruction? (1999) (24)
Fiscal Multipliers in Recessions and Expansions: Does it Matter Whether Government Spending is Increasing or Decreasing? (2014) (24)
Optimal Exchange Rate Regimes: Turning Mundell-Fleming&Apos;S Dictum on its Head (2006) (21)
Two Hundred Years of Contagion (2002) (20)
Is the Public Investment Multiplier Higher in Developing Countries? An Empirical Investigation (2019) (18)
Eects and role of macroprudential policy: Evidence from reserve requirements based on a narrative approach (2012) (16)
Social Implications of Fiscal Policy Responses During Crises (2014) (16)
On graduation from procyclicality (2011) (15)
Unsticking the Flypaper Effect Using Distortionary Taxation (2016) (14)
Disinflation and Interest-Bearing Money (1996) (14)
Money, Crises, and Transition: Essays in Honor of Guillermo A. Calvo (2008) (13)
Non-Linear Distortion-Based Effects of Tax Changes on Output: A Worldwide Narrative Approach (2017) (13)
Inflation and stabilization in transition economies: An analytical interpretation of the evidence (1996) (13)
Fiscal Policy Sustainability: A Basic Framework (1998) (12)
Inflationary finance and currency substitution in a public finance framework (1995) (11)
Between a rock and a hard place : the monetary policy dilemma in Latin America and the Caribbean (2017) (11)
Optimal Taxation Policies in the EMS: A Two-Country Model of Public Finance (1989) (10)
On graduation from scal procyclicality (2012) (10)
Living with the Fear of Floating (2002) (9)
Currency substitution and the optimal inflation tax (1993) (8)
From Known Unknowns to Black Swans: How to Manage Risk in Latin America and theCaribbean (2018) (8)
The Exchange Rate Response Puzzle (2012) (8)
The Macroeconomic Effects of Macroprudential Policy: Evidence from a Narrative Approach (2020) (7)
Can Automatic Government Spending Be Procyclical? (2021) (7)
Fiscal Policy in Emerging Markets: Procyclicality and Graduation (2015) (6)
Output Costs, Currency Crises, and Interest Rate Defense of a Peg (2005) (6)
Optimal Monetary Policy under Asset Market Segmentation (2004) (6)
The Effects of Currency Substitution on the Response of the Current Account to Supply Shocks (1988) (6)
The Effect of Capital Flows Composition on Output Volatility (2013) (6)
Dual Exchange Markets Under Incomplete Separation (5)
A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960–2017 (2020) (4)
Tax policy and the macroeconomy: Measurement, identification, and non-linearities, (2017) (4)
FDI in the Banking Sector : Why borrowing costs fall while spread proxies increase (2008) (4)
Leaning Against the Wind: Fiscal Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in a Historical Perspective (2017) (3)
Macroeconomic and financial challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean after the crisis: Overview of the special issue (2015) (2)
Procyclical Fiscal Policy and Asset Market Incompleteness (2021) (2)
Fooled by the Cycle: Permanent Versus Cyclical Improvements in Social Indicators (2019) (2)
LAC Semiannual Report October 2017: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Monetary Policy Dilemma in Latin America (2017) (2)
How Big are Public Investment Multipliers? (2018) (2)
Exchange rate stabilization under imperfect credibility (1991) (1)
Segmented Asset Markets and Optimal Exchange Rates (2002) (1)
Optimalni režimi deviznog kursa - prevrtanje Mundell-Fleming-ove tvrdnje naglavačke (2007) (1)
Money Supply and Interest Rate Policy in a New-Keynesian Framework (1990) (1)
The Road to Redemption: Policy Response to Crises in Latin America (2014) (1)
Currency substitution and the optimal inflation tax (economics letters 42, no. 1, 1993, pp. 65-70) (1994) (0)
Interest Rate Targeting in a Small Open Economy: The Predetermined Exchange Rates Case (1990) (0)
IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2007: Money-Based vs. Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization: Is There Room for Political Opportunism? by Ari Aisen (2007) (0)
Decoupling and Contagion (2009) (0)
Financial Market Access and International Risk Sharing Financial Market Access and International Risk Sharing (2009) (0)
Financial Crises with Immediate International Repercussions : 1980 – 2000 (2004) (0)
Fiscal Procyclicality in Commodity Exporting Countries: How Much Does It Pour and Why ? (2023) (0)
Tax policy and the macroeconomy : Measurement , identification , and nonlinearities (2017) (0)
Unsticking the ‡ypaper eect in an uncertain world (2011) (0)
Making the Most of the Economic Recovery Ninth Meeting of Finance Ministers of the Americas and the Caribbean (2017) (0)

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