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Carmen Reinhart
Born (1955-10-07) October 7, 1955 (age 69)
Havana, Cuba
Academic career
FieldInternational economics
InstitutionHarvard Kennedy School
Alma materMiami Dade College
Florida International University
Columbia University
Doctoral
advisor		Robert Mundell[1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Carmen M. Reinhart (née Castellanos, born October 7, 1955) is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School.[2] Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[3] and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland.[4] She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Founding Contributor of VoxEU,[5] and a member of Council on Foreign Relations. She is also member of American Economic Association, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association,[6] and the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. She became the subject of general news coverage when mathematical errors were found in a research paper she co-authored.[7]

Early life and career

Born in Havana, Cuba, Reinhart arrived in the United States on January 6, 1966, with her mother and father and three suitcases. They settled in Pasadena, California, during the early years before moving to South Florida, where she grew up. When the family moved to Miami, Reinhart started college at two-year Miami Dade College, before transferring to Florida International University, where she received a B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude) in 1975.[1]

Recommended by Peter Montiel, an M.I.T. graduate teaching at FIU,[8] Reinhart in 1978 went on to attend Columbia University graduate school.[1] After Reinhart passed her field examinations, she was hired as an economist by Bear Stearns and rose to the investment bank's chief economist three years later.[1] In 1988 she returned to Columbia to obtain her Ph.D. under the supervision of Robert Mundell.[1] In the 1990s, she held several positions in the International Monetary Fund. From 2001 to 2003 she returned to the International Monetary Fund as deputy director at the Research Department. She has been the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School since 2012.[2]

She has served on the editorial boards of The American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, International Journal of Central Banking, among others.

In both 2011 and 2012 she was included in the 50 Most Influential ranking of Bloomberg Markets.

Research and publication

She has written and published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and international finance including: international capital flows, capital controls, inflation and commodity prices, banking and sovereign debt crises, currency crashes, and contagion. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as The American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her work is featured in the financial press, including The Economist,[9] Newsweek,[10] The Washington Post,[11] and The Wall Street Journal.[11] Her book (with Kenneth Rogoff), This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, studied the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history.[8][12]

Criticism and controversy

In 2013, Reinhart and Rogoff were in the spotlight after researchers discovered that their 2010 paper "Growth in a Time of Debt" in The American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings had methodological and computational errors. The work argued that debt above 90% of GDP was particularly harmful to economic growth, while corrections have shown this is not the case, and that the negative correlation between debt and growth does not increase above 90% as their work had contended. A separate and previous criticism is that the negative correlation between debt and growth need not be causal.[7][13] Rogoff and Reinhart claimed that their fundamental conclusions were accurate, despite the errors.[14][15]

A review by Herndon, Ash and Pollin of her widely cited paper with Rogoff, "Growth in a time of debt", argued that "coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics lead to serious errors that inaccurately represent the relationship between public debt and GDP growth among 20 advanced economies in the post-war period".[16][17][18]

Personal

Reinhart met her future husband, Vincent Reinhart, when they were classmates at Columbia University in the late 1970s.[1] They have one son.[4]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Warsh, David (November 1, 2009). "What The Woman Lived". Economic Principals. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Carmen Reinhart Joins Harvard Kennedy School Faculty" (Press release). Harvard Kennedy School. July 5, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  3. ^ "Carmen M. Reinhart". Peterson Institute for International Economics. Archived from the original on March 25, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ a b "Carmen M. Reinhart homepage". University of Maryland. Archived from the original on July 9, 2010. Retrieved July 3, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "vox". VoxEU.org. Archived from the original on September 21, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "Welcome! Bienvenidos! Bem-vindos!". Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). Archived from the original on September 1, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ a b Alexander, Ruth (April 19, 2013). "Reinhart, Rogoff... and Herndon: The student who caught out the profs". BBC News. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
  8. ^ a b Rampell, Catherine (July 2, 2010). "They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)". The New York Times. p. BU1. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
  9. ^ Reinhart, Carmen (June 20, 2009). "Romer roundtable: Debt will keep growing". The Economist. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  10. ^ Reinhart, Carmen; Rogoff, Kenneth (March 21, 2009). "Don't Buy the Chirpy Forecasts: The history of banking crises indicates this one may be far from over". Newsweek.
  11. ^ a b Reinhart, Carmen M.; Reinhart, Vincent R. (February 10, 2009). "Playing Down the Price Tag of the Fiscal Stimulus". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  12. ^ Orrell, David (2011). "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff" (PDF). Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  13. ^ "How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff's Arithmetic Mistake?". Center for Economic and Policy Research. April 16, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  14. ^ http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/2013/04/16/reinhart-rogoff-initial-response/
  15. ^ Inman, Phillip (April 17, 2013). "Rogoff and Reinhart defend their numbers". The Guardian. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  16. ^ Herndon, Thomas; Ash, Michael; Pollin, Robert (April 15, 2013). "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff" (PDF). Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved April 18, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ Goldstein, Steve (April 16, 2013). "The spreadsheet error in Reinhart and Rogoff's famous paper on debt sustainability". MarketWatch. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  18. ^ Konczal, Mike (April 16, 2013). "Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems". Roosevelt Institute. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
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