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, financial
crises (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.
