Maurice Obstfeld

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Maurice Moses "Maury" Obstfeld (born 1952) is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and currently Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.

He is well known for his work in international economics. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He graduated from Pennsylvania summa cum laude, Cambridge and MIT. Director of the Center for International and Development Economic Research (CIDER). He joined Berkeley in 1989 as a professor, following appointments at Columbia (1979–1986) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986–1989). He was also a visiting professor at Harvard between 1989 and 1991. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1979. Obstfeld serves as honorary advisor to the Bank of Japan's Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies. Among Obstfeld's honors are the Carroll Round Keynote Lecture, Woodward Lecture, and Bernhard Harms Prize and Lecture in 2004. Obstfeld is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is active as a research Fellow of CEPR, a research associate at NBER, and an International Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

On June 3, 2014, the White House announced that Obstfeld would join the Council of Economic Advisers as lead macroeconomist.

On July 20, 2015, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced her intention to appoint Obstfeld as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Research Department. Obstfeld succeeds Olivier Blanchard whose retirement was announced previously. He began his work at the Fund on September 8, 2015.

Maurice Obstfeld Otro de los economistas invitados es Maurice Obstfeld, el actual economista jefe del FMI, que está en el cargo desde 2015, pero que lo dejará a fin de año para reincorporarse al departamento de Economía de la Universidad de California en Berkeley. NOTICIA RELACIONADA Piñera defiende los "tiempos mejores": "Lo que pasa es que la gente siempre tiene expectativas mayores que la realidad" 251 Previamente, ejerció como profesor permanente en la Universidad de Columbia y en la Universidad de Pensilvania, además de ser profesor visitante en Harvard. Entre 2014 y 2015 fue miembro del consejo de asesores económicos en la Administración del ex Mandatario estadounidense Barack Obama. Además, es asesor honorario del Instituto de Estudios Monetarios y Económicos del Banco de Japón. En el seminario, Obstfeld abordará el panorama local en la exposición llamada "Economía chilena, navegando aguas turbulentas".

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