Capital flight from Italy and what it can tell us about the referendum
Examining economic and political conditions in the run-up to the Italian election.
Carmen M. Reinhart
1978, BA, Florida International University (honours); 1980, MA, 1981, MPhil and 1988, PhD, Columbia University. Chief Economist and Vice-President, Bear Stearns; Senior Policy Adviser and Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund; Professor and Director, Center for International Economics, University of Maryland; Dennis Weatherstone Chair, Peterson Institute for International Economics. Member: National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy; Council on Foreign Relations. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Advisory Panel, honorary member, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. Author on topics in international finance and macroeconomics. Co-Author of “This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly” and “Assessing Financial Vulnerability: An Early Warning System for Emerging Markets”. Recipient in 2018 of the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics.
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Is China pursuing two incompatible economic goals?
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