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Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Sudden Stop: Is Tighter Brighter?

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Dubai Initiative presents a series of job talks with candidates for Assistant Professorships at the Dubai School of Government.

This presentation, by Alberto Ortiz, a doctoral candidate in economics at Boston University, based on the attached paper, asks whether tighter monetary and fiscal policies are the right way to face a sudden stop (a sudden curtailment in capital flows) in a typical emerging economy.

Date: Time: - Location: Taubman Building - Kalb Seminar Room, Room 275
Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Sudden Stop: Is Tighter Brighter?

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The Dubai Initiative presents a series of job talks with candidates for Assistant Professorships at the Dubai School of Government.

This presentation, by Alberto Ortiz, a doctoral candidate in economics at Boston University, based on the attached paper, asks whether tighter monetary and fiscal policies are the right way to face a sudden stop (a sudden curtailment in capital flows) in a typical emerging economy.

Alberto Ortiz is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Boston University, whose areas of research specialization are Macroeconomics, International, and Development Economics.

His research focuses on developing empirically viable macroeconomic models to generate evidence for emerging market economies. His professional experience includes being consultant for the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank. He has provided macroeconomic analysis and forecasts to the Emerging Markets Research departments of BNP-Paribas and Barclays Ltd.

His teaching experience includes courses in Monetary and Banking Institutions and Macroeconomic Analysis at Boston University, and a course in International Financial Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.