Tamon Asonuma
Last Updated: October 11, 2016
Tamon Asonuma is an Economist in the Systemic Issue Division in the IMF Research Department. Before joining the Research Department, he worked in the Strategy Review and Policy Department contributing to series of the IMF Policy Papers on sovereign debt restructurings and sovereign-bank linkages, and involving in many debt restructuring cases (Greece, Myanmar, Belize, Cyprus) as an expert. He holds a PhD in Economics from Boston University and his research interests are in macroeconomics, international finance, and public finance. He is particularly interested in sovereign debt and financial crises, and exchange rate regime. He has published in several academic journals, among which the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Asian Economics, Review of Development Economics, Asian Development Review.
Email: TASONUMA@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/tamonasonuma/
Fluent In: Japanese.
Education:
PhD in Economics, 2011, Boston University
MA in Economics, 2005, Keio University
BA in Economics, 2003, Keio University
Referee Activities:
Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Money and Finance, Japanese Economic Review, Pacific Economic Review, Asian Development Review, Journal of Asian Economics
Current Position:
Economist, Systemic Issues Division, Research Department, 12/2015-present
IMF Career:
Economist, Strategy Policy and Review Department, Debt Policy Division 9/2013-11/2015
Economist Program (EP), Strategy Policy and Review Department, Debt Policy Division, 3/2012-8/2013
Economist Program (EP), African Department, Southern II Division, South Africa desk, 9/2010-2/2012
Field of Expertise:
Public Finance
International Finance
Open Economy Macroeconomics