I am Professor of Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. I am also the Director of the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB), a Vice President of CEPR, Fellow of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, and Editor of Oxford Open Economics and International Development Policy.

 

Prior to joining the Institute, I was the Chief of the Debt and Finance Analysis Unit at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and a Senior Economist in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. I also worked at the World Bank and taught at the American University of Beirut and at the University of Torino.

 

You can find more about my research by looking at my VoxEU pieces, or visiting my Google Scholar and REPEC pages.

 

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• Public Debt: Threat or Opportunity, CORE Insights, 2022 (with Barry Eichengreen)

• Enough Potential Repudiation: Economic and Legal Aspects of Sovereign Debt in the Pandemic Era, (with Anna Gelpern), Annual Review of Economics (forthcoming)

• A Debt of Dishonor (with Kim Oosterlink, Mark Weidemaier, and Mitu Gulati), Boston University Law Review (forthcoming)

• Long-Term Debt Sustainability in Emerging Market Economies: A Counterfactual Analysis, IHEID WP, UN DESA WP

• Do Countries Default in Bad Times? The Role of Alternative Detrending Techniques, CEPR DP, IHEID WP.

• Environmental Protection and Sovereign Debt Restructuring, (with Patrick Bolton, Lee Buchheit, Mitu Gulati and Beatrice Weder di Mauro), Capital Markets Law Journal (forthcoming)

• The Big Disconnect, Just Money Roundtable April, 2022

• On the Benefits of Repaying, (with Francesca Caselli, Matilde Faralli and Paolo Manasse) CEPR Discussion Papers 16539, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. Also on VoxEU

• The Odious Haitian Independence Debt, (with Mitu Gulati, Kim Oosterlinck, and Mark Weidemaier,) CEPR Discussion Papers 16413, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

• A Generation of Italian Economists, (with Enrico Nano and Martina Viarengo) CEPR Discussion Papers 16135, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. Also on VoxEU

• State-Owned Commercial Banks CEPR Discussion Papers 16259, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

• Fiscal Risk and its Drivers An Empirical Analysis, IHEID Working Papers 17-2020, Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies.

• The Hausmann–Gorky Effect, (with Mitu Gulati) Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 166(1), pages 175-195, September.

• How to restructure Euro area sovereign debt in the era of Covid-19 (with Theresa Arnold & Mitu Gulati) Capital Markets Law Journal, vol. 15(3), pages 322-346.

• Alternative Solutions to the Odious Debt Problem (with Mitu Gulati) Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. vol. 54(1), pages 153-168, June.

• Politically Connected Firms and Privileged Access to Credit: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, (with Maurizio Bussolo, Francesca de Nicola and Richard Varghese), European Journal of Political Economy

• Shaping Africa’s post-Covid recovery (editor, with Rabah Arezki and Simeon Djankov), CEPR eBook

• Legal Air Cover, (with Patrick Bolton and Mitu Gulati) Journal of Financial Regulation Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 189–216, CEPR Discussion Paper & IHEID  WPS

• Publishing and Measuring Success in Economics (with Sebastian Galiani), CEPR eBook, also VoxEU 

• How to Prevent a Foreign Debt Disaster, (with  P. Bolton, L. Buchheit, P.O. Gourinchas, M. Gulati, C.T. Hsieh, and B. Weder di Mauro), Foreign Affairs

• Covid-19 in Developing Economies (editor, with Simeon Djankov), CEPR e Book, May 2020, also VoxEU 

• Born Out of Necessity: A Debt Standstill for COVID-19, (with  P. Bolton, L. Buchheit, P.O. Gourinchas, M. Gulati, C.T. Hsieh, and B. Weder di Mauro), CEPR Policy Insight, also VoxEU 

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