NICOLAS MAGUD

Department of Economics

1285 University of Oregon

Eugene, OR 97403-1285

Phone: (541) 346-4676, Fax: (541) 346-1243

E-mail: magud@uoregon.edu

1. CV

2. Papers

• “Capital Controls: Myth and Reality" (joint with Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff), University of Oregon, 2005. Updated: September 2006.

• “Capital Controls: an Evaluation" (joint with Carmen Reinhart) in Capital Controls and Capital Flows in Emerging Economies: Policies, Practices, and Consequences, National Bureau of Economic Research, Sebastian Edwards (editor), University of Chicago Press. NBER Working Paper 11973.

• Comment on “International Borrowing and Macroeconomic Performance in Argentina" by Kathryn Dominguez and Linda Tesar, in Capital Controls and Capital Flows in Emerging Economies: Policies, Practices, and Consequences, National Bureau of Economic Research, Sebastian Edwards (editor), University of Chicago Press.

• “Currency Mismatch, Openness and Exchange Rate Regime Choice", mimeo, University of Maryland, Department of Economics, August 2003. Updated: February 2007.

• “Exchange Rate Regime Choice and Country Characteristics: an Empirical Investigation into the Role of Openness", mimeo, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. March 2003. Updated: October 2005.

• “On Asymmetric Business Cycles and the Effectiveness of Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policies", mimeo, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. September 2001.Up-dated: February 2007. Forthcoming in The Journal of Macroeconomics.

• “Fiscal Deficits and Business Cycles", in Latin American Research Abstracts, 11, June 1999, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

3. Work in Progress

• “Political Economy of Protection: A Canonical Model of Trade Dynamics" (joint with Sebastian Galiani and Daniel Heymann), University of Oregon, 2006.

• “Fiscal Volatility and Growth" (joint with Shankha Chakraborty), University of Oregon, 2006.

• “Output Volatility: Investment Volatility vs. Net Exports Volatility" (joint with Ryan Herzog), University of Oregon, 2005.

• “Exports Volatility and Output Volatility"-Very Preliminary (joint with Marco Arena), University of Oregon, 2007.

• “Convergence by Income Brackets” (joint with Daniel Heymann), University of Oregon, 2007.

4. Policy Discussion

• Argentina 2007: A Simple Analysis of the Effects of the Current Macroeconomic Policy on the Present and Future Income Distribution. In Spanish. Original title: “Argentina 2007: Un Análisis Simple de los Efectos de la Actual Política Macroeconómica sobre la Distribución del Ingreso Presente y Futura”

• Changes in the Argentine National Statistics Agency’s Indexes: The Long-run Effects. In Spanish. Original title: “Cambios en el INDEC: Efectos de Mediano y Largo Plazo”

• Now it is the Time for a Strong Fiscal Adjustment in Argentina. In Spanish. Original title: “Es el Momento de un Fuerte Ajuste Fiscal”. January 2008.

• Argentina 2008: Is the (already High) Inflation Rate Accelerating?

• Argentina has the Chance to Change its Long-term Growth for Good—the Appropriate use of Fiscal Expenditures

• The Short-Economics behind the Conflict Government vs. Rural Sector in Argentina

• Sound Macroeconomic Policies: Better Hurry or it will be TOO Late (or how Fiscal, Monetary, and Exchange Rate Policies are Running Behind the Curve)

• Argentina’s Way of Putting a Cap on Inflation: High Inflation ruled–out by Definition?

5. Teaching

• Graduate Seminar in International Finance (EC 607)

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• Core Macroeconomics (EC 607)

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• International Finance (EC 480)

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• International Economics (EC 380)

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• Principles of Macroeconomics (EC 202)

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