Carlos A. Vegh

Carlos A. Végh (born August 1st, 1958) is an Uruguayan macroeconomist who is Professor of International Economics at the University of Maryland[1]. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1987,[2] and he taught at UCLA before joining the department of economics at the University of Maryland. At both universities he has been awarded Distinguished Teaching Awards for excellence in undergraduate as well as graduate teaching. He has also been visiting professor at Universidad del Pacìfico (Perú) and Universidad del CEMA(Argentina). He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Contributor of VoxEU,[3]. He is also member ofAmerican Economic Association and Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association.
Carlos A. Végh
Birth August 1, 1958 (age 52) Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality  Uruguayan American
Institution  University of Maryland
Field International economics
Alma mater University of Chicago
American University
Influences
Guillermo Calvo · Robert E. Lucas · Jacob Frenkel · Robert Mundell
Information at IDEAS/RePEc

Carlos Végh was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on August 1st, 1958, the son of a prominent Uruguayan business leader Alejandro Végh Villegas who served as Economy Minister of Uruguay from 1974 to 1976 and again from 1982 to 1985[4]. He is also the grandson of Carlos Végh Garzón, who was Economy Minister in 1967.[5]
Between 1979 and 1982, Végh attended college at Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay), before transferring to American University, where he received a B.A. in Economics in 1983. That same year Végh went on to attend graduate school at the University of Chicago where he obtained his Ph.D. in economics under the supervision of Joshua Aizenman, Jacob Frenkel, and John Huizinga. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he held several positions in the International Monetary Fund.
He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of International Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, among others.
[edit]Research and publication

He has written and is considered a top international scholar on a variety of topics in macroeconomics, monetary economics and international finance including: optimal monetary and fiscal policy, cyclical behavior of fiscal policy, international capital flows, inflation, banking and sovereign debt crises, currency crashes, and contagion. His work has been published in scholarly journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. His work has been featured in the international press, including The Economist[6], La Nacion (Argentina),[7]The National Review[8] and El Colombiano (Colombia)[9].
http://econweb.umd.edu/~vegh/