Contact Information
202-452-2762
carlos.o.arteta@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
International Finance
Macroeconomics
Development Economics

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 2002
B.A., Global Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2002-present
Summer Intern, International Monetary Fund, 2000
Intern, The World Bank, 1999
Summer Intern, Inter-American Development Bank, 1998

Selected Publications

• ''Sovereign Debt Crises and Credit to the Private Sector'' (with Galina Hale), Journal of International Economics (forthcoming).
• ''Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Dollarization: Does Flexibility Reduce Currency Mismatches in Bank Intermediation?'' Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics, Topics in Macroeconomics Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 10. http://www.bepress.com/bejm/topics/vol5/iss1/art10 (2005).
• ''Are Financially Dollarized Countries More Prone to Costly Crises?'' Monetaria, vol. 28 (Spring 2005), pp. 105-160.
• ''Review of ”Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences” by Atish Ghosh, Anne-Marie Gulde, and Holger Wolf,'' The Economic Journal, vol. 114 (February 2004), pp. 172-173.
• ''When Does Capital Account Liberalization Help More than It Hurts?'' (with Barry Eichengreen and Charles Wyplosz), in Elhanan Helpman and Efraim Sadka, eds., Economic Policy in the International Economy: Essays in Honor of Assaf Razin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• ''Banking Crises in Emerging Markets: Presumptions and Evidence'' (with Barry Eichengreen), in Mario I. Blejer and Marko Skreb, eds., Financial Policies in Emerging Markets. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
• Sovereign Debt Crises and Credit to the Private Sector (with Galina Hale), International Finance Discussion Papers 878. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2006.
• Currency Crises and Foreign Credit in Emerging Markets: Credit Crunch or Demand Effect? (with Galina Hale). Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series, vol. 2007-02. : , 2007.
• Are Financially Dollarized Countries More Prone to Costly Crises?, International Finance Discussion Papers 763. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2003.
• Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Dollarization: Does Flexibility Reduce Bank Currency Mismatches?, International Finance Discussion Papers 738. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2002.