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George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee
Professor of Economics and Political Science


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Updated 22 June 2009

CURRICULUM VITAE
   
EDUCATION Ph.D. (Economics) Yale University 1979
M.A. (History) Yale University 1978
M. Phil. (Economics) Yale University 1977
M.A. (Economics) Yale University 1976
A.B. University of California, Santa Cruz 1974
 
CURRENT
POSITIONS
George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1999-.
International Research Fellow, Kiel Institute of World Economics, 2001-.
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1986-.
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1984-.
 
PREVIOUS
POSITIONS
John L. Simpson Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1994-1999.
Senior Policy Advisor, International Monetary Fund, 1997-98.
Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1986-94.
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1981-86.
Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1980-86.

 
RECENT
BOOKS

Yellow bear paw What G20 Leaders Must Do to Stabilise Our Economy and Fix the Financial System (coedited with Richard Baldwin), London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, online at VoxEu.org, October 2008.

Yellow bear paw Rescuing Our Jobs And Savings: What G7/8 Leaders Can Do To Solve The Global Credit Crisis (coedited with Richard Baldwin), London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, online at VoxEU.org, October 2008.

Yellow bear paw Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Second Edition), Princeton University Press, October 2008. Click here for table of contents, index and excerpt.

Yellow bear paw The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond, Princeton University Press, Paperback edition, July 2008.

Yellow bear paw Bond Markets in Latin America: On the Verge of a Big Bang? co-edited with Eduardo Borensztein, Kevin Cowan, and Ugo Panizza, MIT Press, June 2008. Click here for table of contents and sample chapter.

Yellow bear paw China, Asia, and the New World Economy, co-edited with Charles Wyplosz and Yung Chul Park, Oxford University Press, April 2008. Click here for cover with table of contents.

 
RECENT
PAPERS, ARTICLES,
OP EDS,
COMMENTS

Yellow bear paw "Financial Re-Regulation: What Europe Needs to Get Its Way," forthcoming in Europe's World (Summer 2009).

Yellow bear paw "Central Bank Transparency: Causes, Consequences and Updates," with Nergiz Dincer. February 2009. An earlier version of this paper was presented to the conference on Money Matters: The Law, Politics and Economics of Currency, held at Tel Aviv University on 7-9 January 2009.

Yellow bear paw "The Global Credit Crisis as History." An edited version appears as "Bad Credit History" in Current History, January 2009.

Yellow bear paw "Capital Account Liberalization, Financial Development and Industry Growth: A Synthetic View," with Rachita Gullapalli and Ugo Panizza. January 2009.

Yellow bear paw "Bretton Woods and the Great Inflation," with Michael Bordo. NBER Working Paper 14532, December 2008.

Yellow bear paw "The Asian Crisis After Ten Years," in Ramkishen Rajan, Shandre Thangavelu and Rasyad Parinduri (eds), Exchange Rate, Monetary and Financial Issues and Policies in Asia (World Scientific 2009).

Yellow bear paw "How Obama Can Fix the Economy." Commentary on CNN.com, November 17, 2008.

Yellow bear paw "The Crisis of the Euro." Commentary on Project Syndicate, 1 November 2008.

Yellow bear paw "Origins and Responses to the Current Crisis," CESifo Forum (November 2008).

Yellow bear paw "New World Pragmatism: Toward a Pragmatic New Bretton Woods." In The Guardian (UK), October 24, 2008.

Yellow bear paw "Time to Grasp the Fiscal Nettle." Commentary on Guardian.co.uk, Oct. 9, 2008.

Yellow bear paw "Global Financial Market Turmoil." Participant on a panel of scholars from UC Berkeley analyzing how the recent financial market meltdown occurred, evaluating the government's response, and explaining its impact on American households and global markets. Sponsored by UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. October 2, 2008.

Yellow bear paw "The United States as an Emerging Market." A German-language version appears in the Frankfurter Allgemeine, October 2008.

Yellow bear paw "And Now, the Great Depression." Appears on RGE Monitor, September 23, 2008.

Yellow bear paw "Anatomy of a Financial Crisis." A shorter version appeared through Project Syndicate, September 18, 2008.

Yellow bear paw "Now's the Time for Fiscal Support." Interview with Barry Eichengreen in Financial Times Deutschland (in German), 8 September 2008.

Yellow bear paw "Should There be a Coordinated Response to the Problem of Global Imbalances? Can There Be One?" Background paper, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, published as Working Paper 69, September 2008.

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