Emine Boz

Last Updated: December 19, 2023

Emine Boz

Emine Boz is a Deputy Division Chief in the Caribbean I Division of the Western Hemisphere Department and the Mission Chief for Antigua and Barbuda. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and has been at the IMF since 2006. Her work focuses on the areas of international macroeconomics and trade, and appeared in several academic journals.

Email: EBOZ@imf.org

Fluent In: Turkish.

Education:

University of Maryland, Ph.D.

Bilkent University, B.A.


Current Position:

Deputy Division Chief, Caribbean I Division, Western Hemisphere Department

Mission Chief, Antigua and Barbuda


Field of Expertise:

International Trade

Open Economy Macroeconomics

International Finance

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Integrated Monetary and Financial Policies for Small Open Economies , Working Paper No. 2023/161 , August 04, 2023

Patterns in Invoicing Currency in Global Trade , Working Paper No. , July 17, 2020

A Conceptual Model for the Integrated Policy Framework , Working Paper No. 20/121 , July 07, 2020

Effective Trade Costs and the Current Account: An Empirical Analysis , Working Paper No. 19/8 , January 15, 2019

The Slowdown in Global Trade: A Symptom of A Weak Recovery , Working Paper No. 17/242 , November 15, 2017

Global Trade and the Dollar , Working Paper No. 17/239 , November 13, 2017

Emerging Market Business Cycles : The Role of Labor Market Frictions , Working Paper No. 12/237 , October 02, 2012

Macro-prudential Policy in a Fisherian Model of Financial Innovation , Working Paper No. 12/181 , July 01, 2012

Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis , Working Paper No. 10/164 , July 01, 2010

Sovereign Default, Private Sector Creditors and the IFIs , Working Paper No. 09/46 , March 01, 2009

Can Miracles Lead to Crises? The Role of Optimism in Emerging Markets Crises , Working Paper No. 07/223 , September 01, 2007

Selected Issue

“Germany’s Sustained Current Account Surplus: an International Comparison,” IMF Selected Issues Paper, 2015.

“Belize’s Debt Management Strategy,” IMF Selected Issues Paper, 2008.

Other Published Materials

“Sovereign Debt and Default,” IMF Research Bulletin, vol. 11:3, 2010.

“Making Trade an Engine of Growth for All: The Case for Trade and for Policies to Facilitate Adjustment,” IMF Policy Paper joint with the WTO and the WB, 2017.

“Global Trade: What’s Behind the Slowdown?, Ch. 2 of the World Economic Outlook, October, 2016.

“Smaller Economies in Latin America and Caribbean Face a Bigger Inflation Challenge,” with Ilan Goldfajn, Jaime Guajardo and Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, IMF Country Focus, 2022.

Publications in Journals (Refereed)

"Patterns in Invoicing Currency in Global Trade,” with Camila Casas, Georgios Georgiadis, Gita Gopinath, Helena Le Mezo, Arnold Mehl and Tra Nguyen, Journal of International Economics, vol. 136, 2022.

"Dominant Currency Paradigm,” with Camila Casas, Federico Diez, Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Mikkel Plagborg-Moller, American Economic Review, vol. 110/3, pp. 677-719, 2020.

“Dollar Invoicing and the Heterogeneity of Exchange Rate Pass-Through,” with Gita Gopinath and Mikkel Plagborg-Moller, AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 109, p. 527-32, 2019.

“The Slowdown in Global Trade: Symptom of a Weak Recovery?,” with A. Aslam, E. Cerutti, M. Poplawski and P. Topalova, IMF Economic Review, vol. 66/3, pp. 440-79, 2018.

"Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Role of Labor Market Frictions,” with Bora Durdu and Nan Li, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 47/1, pp. 31-72, 2015.

“Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis,” with Enrique Mendoza, Journal of Monetary Economics, lead article, vol. 62, pp. 1-22, 2014.

“Macro-prudential Policy in a Fisherian Model of Financial Innovation,” with Javier Bianchi and Enrique Mendoza, IMF Economic Review, vol. 60, pp. 223-69, 2012.

“Emerging Market Business Cycles: Learning about the Trend,” with Christian Daude and Bora Durdu, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 58, pp. 616-31, 2011.

“Sovereign Default, Private Sector Creditors, and the IFIs,” Journal of International Economics, vol. 83/1, pp. 70-82, 2011.

“Can Miracles Lead to Crises? The Role of Optimism in Emerging Markets Crises,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 41/6, pp. 1189-1215, 2009.

Other Published Materials

“Effective Trade Costs and the Current Account,” with N. Li and H. Zhang, VoxEU, 2019.

“Revisiting the Paradox of Capital,” with Luis Cubeddu and Maury Obstfeld, VoxEU, 2017.

“Global Trade: Drivers Behind the Slowdown,” with A. Aslam, E. Cerutti, M. Poplawski and P. Topalova, VoxEU, 2017.

“On the Recent Slowdown in Global Trade,” with M. Bussiere and C. Marsilli, VoxEU, 2014.

Emine Boz

Emine Boz is a Deputy Division Chief in the Caribbean I Division of the Western Hemisphere Department and the Mission Chief for Antigua and Barbuda. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and has been at the IMF since 2006. Her work focuses on the areas of international macroeconomics and trade, and appeared in several academic journals.

Email: EBOZ@imf.org

Fluent In: Turkish.

Education:

University of Maryland, Ph.D.

Bilkent University, B.A.


Current Position:

Deputy Division Chief, Caribbean I Division, Western Hemisphere Department

Mission Chief, Antigua and Barbuda


Field of Expertise:

International Trade

Open Economy Macroeconomics

International Finance

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Integrated Monetary and Financial Policies for Small Open Economies , Working Paper No. 2023/161 , August 04, 2023

Patterns in Invoicing Currency in Global Trade , Working Paper No. , July 17, 2020

A Conceptual Model for the Integrated Policy Framework , Working Paper No. 20/121 , July 07, 2020

Effective Trade Costs and the Current Account: An Empirical Analysis , Working Paper No. 19/8 , January 15, 2019

The Slowdown in Global Trade: A Symptom of A Weak Recovery , Working Paper No. 17/242 , November 15, 2017

Global Trade and the Dollar , Working Paper No. 17/239 , November 13, 2017

Emerging Market Business Cycles : The Role of Labor Market Frictions , Working Paper No. 12/237 , October 02, 2012

Macro-prudential Policy in a Fisherian Model of Financial Innovation , Working Paper No. 12/181 , July 01, 2012

Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis , Working Paper No. 10/164 , July 01, 2010

Sovereign Default, Private Sector Creditors and the IFIs , Working Paper No. 09/46 , March 01, 2009

Can Miracles Lead to Crises? The Role of Optimism in Emerging Markets Crises , Working Paper No. 07/223 , September 01, 2007

Selected Issue

“Germany’s Sustained Current Account Surplus: an International Comparison,” IMF Selected Issues Paper, 2015.

“Belize’s Debt Management Strategy,” IMF Selected Issues Paper, 2008.

Other Published Materials

“Sovereign Debt and Default,” IMF Research Bulletin, vol. 11:3, 2010.

“Making Trade an Engine of Growth for All: The Case for Trade and for Policies to Facilitate Adjustment,” IMF Policy Paper joint with the WTO and the WB, 2017.

“Global Trade: What’s Behind the Slowdown?, Ch. 2 of the World Economic Outlook, October, 2016.

“Smaller Economies in Latin America and Caribbean Face a Bigger Inflation Challenge,” with Ilan Goldfajn, Jaime Guajardo and Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, IMF Country Focus, 2022.

Publications in Journals (Refereed)

"Patterns in Invoicing Currency in Global Trade,” with Camila Casas, Georgios Georgiadis, Gita Gopinath, Helena Le Mezo, Arnold Mehl and Tra Nguyen, Journal of International Economics, vol. 136, 2022.

"Dominant Currency Paradigm,” with Camila Casas, Federico Diez, Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Mikkel Plagborg-Moller, American Economic Review, vol. 110/3, pp. 677-719, 2020.

“Dollar Invoicing and the Heterogeneity of Exchange Rate Pass-Through,” with Gita Gopinath and Mikkel Plagborg-Moller, AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 109, p. 527-32, 2019.

“The Slowdown in Global Trade: Symptom of a Weak Recovery?,” with A. Aslam, E. Cerutti, M. Poplawski and P. Topalova, IMF Economic Review, vol. 66/3, pp. 440-79, 2018.

"Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Role of Labor Market Frictions,” with Bora Durdu and Nan Li, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 47/1, pp. 31-72, 2015.

“Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis,” with Enrique Mendoza, Journal of Monetary Economics, lead article, vol. 62, pp. 1-22, 2014.

“Macro-prudential Policy in a Fisherian Model of Financial Innovation,” with Javier Bianchi and Enrique Mendoza, IMF Economic Review, vol. 60, pp. 223-69, 2012.

“Emerging Market Business Cycles: Learning about the Trend,” with Christian Daude and Bora Durdu, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 58, pp. 616-31, 2011.

“Sovereign Default, Private Sector Creditors, and the IFIs,” Journal of International Economics, vol. 83/1, pp. 70-82, 2011.

“Can Miracles Lead to Crises? The Role of Optimism in Emerging Markets Crises,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 41/6, pp. 1189-1215, 2009.

Other Published Materials

“Effective Trade Costs and the Current Account,” with N. Li and H. Zhang, VoxEU, 2019.

“Revisiting the Paradox of Capital,” with Luis Cubeddu and Maury Obstfeld, VoxEU, 2017.

“Global Trade: Drivers Behind the Slowdown,” with A. Aslam, E. Cerutti, M. Poplawski and P. Topalova, VoxEU, 2017.

“On the Recent Slowdown in Global Trade,” with M. Bussiere and C. Marsilli, VoxEU, 2014.