Marcos Chamon
Email: mchamon@imf.org
Fluent In: Portuguese.
Education:
2003 Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University Thesis: “Essays on International Debt” Thesis Committee: Kenneth Rogoff, Michael Kremer, and Philippe Aghion.
1998 S.B. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experience:
International Monetary Fund: Economist in the Research Department (Strategic Issues Division): June 2003-May 2004, and June 2005-Present, Economist in the Asia and Pacific Department (Division 8): June 2004-May 2005.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Fall 2007.
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Coping with the Crisis: Policy Options for Emerging Market Countries, Staff Position Note No. 2009/08, April 23, 2009
The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico, Working Paper No. 08/197, August 01, 2008
Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?, Working Paper No. 08/145, June 01, 2008
Is There a Novelty Premium on New Financial Instruments? The Argentine Experience with GDP-Indexed Warrants, Working Paper No. 08/109, April 01, 2008
The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil, Working Paper No. 06/275, December 01, 2006
Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution, Working Paper No. 06/21, January 01, 2006
Pricing Growth-Indexed Bonds, Working Paper No. 05/216, November 01, 2005
Sovereign Debt Structure for Crisis Prevention, Occasional Paper No. 237, January 26, 2005
Can Debt Crises Be Self-Fulfilling?, Working Paper No. 04/99, June 01, 2004
External Publications
“A Micro-Empirical Foundation for the Political Economy of Exchange Rate Populism” (with Irineu de Carvalho Filho), IMF Staff Papers, forthcoming.
“Why do Countries Borrow the Way They Borrow” (with Ricardo Hausmann), in Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausman (eds.), Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2004.
Email: mchamon@imf.org
Fluent In: Portuguese.
Education:
2003 Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University Thesis: “Essays on International Debt” Thesis Committee: Kenneth Rogoff, Michael Kremer, and Philippe Aghion.
1998 S.B. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experience:
International Monetary Fund: Economist in the Research Department (Strategic Issues Division): June 2003-May 2004, and June 2005-Present, Economist in the Asia and Pacific Department (Division 8): June 2004-May 2005.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Fall 2007.
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Coping with the Crisis: Policy Options for Emerging Market Countries, Staff Position Note No. 2009/08, April 23, 2009
The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico, Working Paper No. 08/197, August 01, 2008
Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?, Working Paper No. 08/145, June 01, 2008
Is There a Novelty Premium on New Financial Instruments? The Argentine Experience with GDP-Indexed Warrants, Working Paper No. 08/109, April 01, 2008
The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil, Working Paper No. 06/275, December 01, 2006
Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution, Working Paper No. 06/21, January 01, 2006
Pricing Growth-Indexed Bonds, Working Paper No. 05/216, November 01, 2005
Sovereign Debt Structure for Crisis Prevention, Occasional Paper No. 237, January 26, 2005
Can Debt Crises Be Self-Fulfilling?, Working Paper No. 04/99, June 01, 2004
External Publications
“A Micro-Empirical Foundation for the Political Economy of Exchange Rate Populism” (with Irineu de Carvalho Filho), IMF Staff Papers, forthcoming.
“Why do Countries Borrow the Way They Borrow” (with Ricardo Hausmann), in Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausman (eds.), Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2004.