Sebastian Edwards (1953-)

Sebastian Edwards, nacido en Santiago de Chile. Estudió en la Universidad Católica de Chile y se licenció y doctoró en economía por la Universidad de Chicago. Trabaja en el Departamento de Economía en UCLA. 

Ha trabajado en el Banco Mundial como economista jefe para América Latina y el Caribe (1993-1996). Ha trabajado también para el Banco Inter-Americano de Desarrollo, el FMI y la OCDE. Es coeditor del Journal of Development Economics. Sus campos principales de estudio son la Economía Internacional y Economía del Desarrollo.

Entrevistas en castellano a Sebastián Edwards incluidas en este CD-ROM

Entrevista aparecida en El Diario Financiero, 25 de octubre, 1999

Entrevista publicada en La Tercera (Chile), 2 de enero de 2000.

E-mail: sebastian.edwards@anderson.ucla.edu

Libros recientes de Sebastian Edwards

 Anatomy of an Emerging-Market Crash: Mexico 1994, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997

Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility, Brookings, 1997.

Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope, Oxford University Press, 1995.

Trabajos recientes accesibles en Internet:

2000

• Contagion, April, 2000 (Presented at the University of Nottingham, as the 1999 WORLD ECONOMY LECTURE.  Forthcoming in The World Economy) 

• Exchange Rate Systems in Emerging Economies,  April, 2000 (Prepared for the Meltzer Commission on the New Financial Architecture) 

• Interest Rate Volatility and Contagion in Emerging Markets,  January, 2000 (Presented at the NBER-IASE Conference in Buenos Aires and at the AEA Meetings in Boston) 

• Controls on Capital Inflows:  Do they Work?, January, 2000 (Forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics) 

• Economic Reforms and Labor Markets:  Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile, January, 2000 (Forthcoming in Economic Policy) 

1999

• How Effective are Capital Controls?  September 1999  (A slightly revised version of this paper was published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1999)

• Latin America at the End of the Century:  More of the Same? September 1999  (Presented at seminars in Chile and Peru)

• Social Security Reform and Labor Markets: The Case of Chile, August 1999 

• How effective are Controls on Capital Inflows? An Evaluation of Chile's Experience, June 1999

• On Crisis Prevention: Lessons from Mexico and East Asia, June 1999. (Presented at the Brookings-World Bank Conference on "Financial Markets and Development: Preventing Crises in Emerging Markets, March 1999)

• Remarks on Dollarization, April 1999. (Remarks made at Deutsche Bank's Seminar on Latin America, Paris. March,1999. In Deutsche Bank, Global Emerging Markets, Vol.2, 2)

• The Mirage of Capital Controls, May 1999. (This is an earlier version of a paper published in Foreign Affairs, May/June 1999)

• Exchange Rates in Emerging Economies: What do We Know? What do We Need to Know? (Joint with Miguel Savastano, IMF), May, 1999 (Forthcoming in volume edited by Anne Krueger)

1998

• Capital Flows, Real Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls: Some Latin American Experiences, Nov, 1998 (Forthcoming in S.Edwards ed. Capital Flows to Emerging Markets, U. of Chicago Press)

• Interest Rate Volatility, Capital Controls, and Contagion, Oct, 1998 (Earlier version of paper published in Journal of Applied Economics, 1998)

• The Morning After: The Mexican Peso in the Aftermath of the 1994 Currency Crisis, (Joint with Miguel A. Savastano, IMF), Apr, 1998 (Presented at Paul Krugman's NBER Conference on Currency Crises)

• The Political Economy of Unilateral Trade Liberalization: The Case of Chile (Joint with Daniel Lederman), Apr, 1998 (To be published in volume edited by Jagdish Bhagwati)

• Capital Inflows into Latin America: A Stop-Go Story?, Mar, 1998 (Revised version will be published by University of Chicago press in volume edited by Marty Feldstein)

1997

• The Mexican Peso Crisis? How Much Did We Know? When Did We Know It?, Dec, 1997 (A revised version was published in The World Economy, 1998)

• Banks and Macroeconomics Disturbances under Predetermined Exchange Rates, (Joint with Carlos A. Vegh, UCLA), Mar, 1997 (A revised version was published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, 1997)

• Openness, Productivity and Growth: What Do We Really Know?, Mar, 1997 (A revised version was published in The Economic Journal, March 1998)

1996

• The Chilean Pension Reform: A Pioneering Program, Nov, 1996 (A revised version was published in M. Feldstein (Ed) Privatizing Social Security, U. of Chicago press, 1998)

• A Tale of Two Crises: Chile and Mexico, Oct, 1996 (A revised and expanded version was published in The Economic Journal, May 1998)

• The Determinants of the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange-Rate Regimes, Sep, 1996 (A revised and shorter version was published in NBER volume edited by Taka Ito and Anne Krueger, 1999)

• Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Countries, Jan, 1996 (A revised and expanded version was published in the 1995 Proceedings from the Kansas City Fed Jackson Hole Conference)