Are China's and India's Growth Miracles Built to Last?

Date:  February 18, 2008 Time:  7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Location:  Vandeburg Auditorium, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Email:  wage@intl-institute.wisc.edu Contact:  Carrie Traud Sponsor:  Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and La Follette School of Public Affairs Co-Sponsor:  Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Global Studies, Center for South Asia, Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Wisconsin Department of Commerce, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Cost:  Free and open to the public

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Eswar Prasad served as the Chief of the IMF China Division for two years, has co-authored several influential papers and monographs on financial globalization and has co-edited a book on China and India. He is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He previously worked as the Chief of the Financial Studies Division in the IMF’s Research Department.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research has spanned a number of areas including labor economics, business cycles, and open economy macroeconomics. His extensive publication record includes articles in numerous collective volumes as well as top academic journals such as The American Economic Review, The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics etc. He is one of the lead authors of a recent IMF study on Financial Globalization and has edited IMF books and monographs on China, Hong Kong and India. His current research interests include the macroeconomics of globalization, the relationship between growth and volatility, and the Chinese and Indian economies.

Dr. Prasad has served as the co-editor of the journal IMF Staff Papers, was on the editorial board of Finance & Development and was the founding editor of the quarterly IMF Research Bulletin. He has been a Research Fellow of IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn) since 2002.

To view his full biography and access his published works visit: http://prasad.aem.cornell.edu/index.htm