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Kenneth Kletzer Home  Directory Kenneth Kletzer
| Education History | |
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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
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International economics, economic theory, economic development. |
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Kenneth Kletzerīs primary area of research is international economics. Most of his research concerns the consequences of international financial market integration for welfare, growth and national policy autonomy. He also worked on many topics on open economy fiscal policy and in international trade. Recent research topics includes financial crises, sovereignty and international financial flows and the fiscal implications of economic integration. Professor Kletzer was a member of the economics faculty of Yale University before coming to UCSC in 1992. He was recently a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley and taught at the University of Bonn. Professor Kletzer has been a visiting scholar at a number of institutions, including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Economic Policy Research Unit of Denmark. He has a particular interest in South Asia and currently serves as a Visiting Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. Professor Kletzer has also served as a Fulbright Fellow in South America. He is an associate editor of the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics. |
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"Sovereign Debt as Intertemporal Barter," with Brian Wright, American Economic Review, Vol. 90, June 2000.
"Safeguards against Emerging Market Crises: Will Proposed Self-protection Policies Help?" with Ashoka Mody, in R. Litan, ed., Emerging Markets in the New Financial System, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, forthcoming.
"International Capital Inflows, Domestic Financial Intermediation and Financial Crises under Imperfect Information," with Menzie D. Chinn, in R. Glick, ed., Emerging Markets Crises, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, forthcoming.
"Debt and Taxes: Ponzi Finance, Dynamic Efficiency and Government Solvency," with Willem H. Buiter, in S. Brakman, H. Van Ees and S. Kuipers, eds., Market Behaviour and Macroeconomic Modelling, London: Macmillan Press, 1998, pp. 275-307.
"Speculative Capital Inflows and Exchange Rate Targeting in the Pacific Basin: Theory and Evidence," with Mark Spiegel, in Reuven Glick, ed., Managing Capital Flows and Exchange Rates: Lessons from the Pacific Basin, New York: Cambridge University Press,1998, pp. 409-435.
"Capital Mobility, Fiscal Policy and Growth under Self?financing of Human Capital Formation," with Willem H. Buiter, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 28, November, 1995, pp. S163?S194.
"Persistent National Productivity Growth Differentials in an Integrated World Economy: the Roles of Households, Non-tradedness, Self-financing and Fiscal Policy," with Willem H. Buiter, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol 95, No. 4, December 1993.
"Who's Afraid of the Public Debt," with Willem Buiter, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 82, May 1992.
"Smoothing Primary Exporters' Price Risks: Bonds, Futures, Options and Insurance," with David M. Newbery and Brian D. Wright, Oxford Economic Papers, October 1992.
"The Welfare Economics of Cooperative and Noncooperative Fiscal Policy," with Willem H. Buiter, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 1991. |
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