CARLOS ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ

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Born March 6, 1947. Married, Six Children

ADDRESS

• CEMA University , Córdoba 374, (1054) Buenos Aires - Argentina
• Phone: (5411) 4314-2269 FAX: (5411) 4314-1654 E.MAIL: car@cema.edu.ar

EDUCATION:

• Licenciado en Economía, 1969, University of Buenos Aires.
• Ph. D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1973.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Rector of CEMA University since its creation in December 1994 until 2018.
• Secretary of Economic Policy (1997 - 1998) and Chief of the Cabinet of Economic Advisors (1996-1998), Ministry of Economy and Public Works and Services of Argentina.
• Member of the National Academy of Economic Science of Argentina s/ October 1987.Treasurer, March 1988-92.
• Professor of Economics, Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina, CEMA, since January 1979. Director General of CEMA 1991-1996
• Editor of Revista Analisis 1998-2018.
• Director of the Center for Economic Analysis, UCEMA, 1998-2018.
• Founding Editor of the Journal of Applied Economics in 1998
• IBRD Consultant since 1985. Reports done on Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Czechoslovakia, Dominica, El Salvador, Poland, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Rumania, Uzbekistan and Uruguay. Visiting Scholar in the Research Department and in the LACVP.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the World Bank Economic Review 1988-1990.
• Visiting Scholar in the Asian Department of the IMF in 1977 (June-August) and 1978 (June-August). Visiting Scholar, Research Department, January-March 1988 and 1990.
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1983-84.
• Professor of Economics, Columbia University, New York, 1973-79.
• Visiting Professor, Doctoral Program in Economics, University of Montevideo, Uruguay, 1983 and 1985.
• Associate Editor, The Journal of International Economics, 1976-80.
• Visiting Scholar, International Finance Section, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June-August 1976.
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Autumn quarter 1975.
• Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago, Summer quarter, 1974.
• Lecturer in Economics, Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago, summer of 1972 and 1973.
• Research Assistant, Di Tella Institute, 1969-70.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

"Inflación y Estabilidad: El Tipo de Cambio como Instrumento de Estabilización", edited with Roque Fernández, ISBN 950-037-016-8. Ediciones Macchi, Bs.As.1982

" Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance"edited with W.Easterly and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, ISBN 0-19-520988-5, Oxford University Press, November 1994.

"Convertibilidad, Fundamentación y Funcionamiento", edited with Jorge Avila and Aquiles Almansi, ISBN 987-96318-0-3, CEMA UniversityMarch 1997

"Argentina en Transición: La Recesión 1998-2000", ISBN 987-98255-1-9 , Editorial Temas, Buenos Aires, Septiembre 2000.

Papers

• "El Aprendizaje por la Experiencia y la Estrategia Optima de Producción de la Firma", Económica, La Plata, Argentina (January-April 1971).
• "Aspects of International Factor Mobility", Ph D. Thesis. The University of Chicago, 1973.
• "The Non-Equivalence of Tariffs and Quotas Under Retaliation", Journal of International Economics, (August 1974).
• "International Factor Mobility, Non-traded Goods and the International Equalization of Prices of Goods and Factors", Econometrica, (January 1975).
• "Trade in Technological Knowledge and the National Advantage", Journal of Political Economy, (February 1975).
• "The Role of Factor Intensity Reversals in a Small Country Model of Trade and Growth", Eastern Economic Journal (April 1975).
• "Wealth Effects and the Dynamics of Inflation", with Jacob Frenkel, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, (May 1975).
• "Portfolio Equilibrium and the Balance of Payments: A Monetary Approach", with Jacob Frenkel, American Economic Review, (September 1975).
• "On the Welfare Aspects of International Migration", Journal of Political Economy, (October 1975).
• "Money and Wealth in an Open Economy Income-Expenditure Model", in Essays on the Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments, Jacob Frenkel and H.G. Johnson (Eds.), London 1976.
• "Welfare Theoretical Analysis of the Brain Drain", with Jagdish Bhagwati, Journal of Development Economics (Septiembre 1975) also in the Brain Drain and Taxation Part II, J. Bhagwati (Ed.) North Holland, 1976.
• "Brain Drain and Economic Growth: A Dynamic Model", Journal of Development Economics (September 1975). Also in The Brain Drain and Taxation, Part II, J. Bhagwati (Ed.), North Holland 1976.
• "A Note on the Economics of the Duty Fee Zone", Journal of International Economics, 1976.
• "On the Second Best Optimality of Tariffs in the Presence of Incentive Schedules", Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, (May 1976).
• "The Terms of Trade and the Balance of Payments in the Short Run", American Economic Review, (September 1976).
• "Intermediate Imports and Macroeconomics Policy Under Flexible Exchange Rates", with Ronald Findlay, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, (August 1977)
• "A Model of Exchange Rate Determination Under Currency Substitution and Rational Expectations", with Guillermo Calvo, Journal of Political Economy, (June 1977).
• "Notes on Output and Expectations in the Process of Inflation", with Jacob Frenkel, Weltwirtschaflliches Archives, (September 1977).
• "A Simple keynesian Model of Inflation and Unemployment under Rational Expectations", Weltwirtschaflliches Archives, (March 1978).
• "A Model of Economic Growth with investment in Human Capital", with R. Findlay in Research in Human Capital and Economic Development, Ali S. Klan, (ed.).
• A Stylized Model of the Devaluation-Inflation Spiral", International Monetary Fund, Staff Papers, (March 1978).
• "Un Modelo de Acumulación de Capital", Cuadernos de Economía, 44, (1978), Santiago, Chile.
• "A Comment on Fisher and Temin on the Shumpeterian Hypothesis", Journal of Political Economy, (April 1979).
• "Trade, Prices and Output in Japan: A Simple Monetary Model", with B. Aghevli, International Monetary Fund, Staff Papers, (March 1979).
• "Short and Long Run Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Flexible Exchange Rates and Perfect Capital Mobility", American Economic Review (March 1979).
• "International Technology Transfers", in Past and Prospects of the World Economic Order, Macmillan, London (1979).
• "The Incidence of a Tax on Pure Rent: A New (?) Reason for and Old Answer", with G. Calvo and L. Kotlikoff, Journal of Political Economy, (June 1979).
• "The Quality of Imports and the Differential Welfare Effects of Tariffs, Quotas and Quality Controls as Protective Devices", Canadian Journal of Economics, (August 1979).
• "El Atraso Cambiario en Argentina: Mito o Realidad?", with Larry Sjaastad, Working Paper, CEMA, (1979).
• "The Role of Trade Flows in Exchange Rate Determinations", Journal of Political Economy, (December 1980).
• "Algunas Consideraciones Teóricas Sobre la Estabilidad de Reglas Alternativas de Política Cambiaria", Cuadernos de Economía, 50, (1980).
• "Asignaciones Aleatorias Vs. Asignaciones por Precio: El Caso de ENTEL", with Roque Fernández, Cuadernos de Economía, (1980).
• "Sobre los Beneficios Sociales de la Variabilidad de los Términos de Intercambio", Working Paper, CEMA, (1980).
• "Política Comercial y Salarios Reales", Working Paper, CEMA, (1981), Cuadernos de Economía, Chile, 1981.
• "Flexible Exchange Rates and Imported Imputs: A Dynamic Analysis of the Interactions Between the Monetary and Real Sectors for a Small Open Economy", in T. Taya: The Economics of Flexible Exchange Rates, (1981).
• "Managed Float: An Evaluation of Alternative Rules in the Presence of Speculative Capital Flows," American Economic Review, (March 1981).
• "El Plan Económico del 20 de Diciembre", Working Paper, CEMA, (1979), World Development, 1982.
• "Un Análisis de las Propiedades Dinámicas del Tipo de Cambio Flexible", with Jacob Frenkel, Working Paper, CEMA, (1980), Económica (La Plata), 1982.
• "Exchange Rate Dynamics and the Overshooting Hypothesis", with Jacob Frenkel, IMF Staff Papers, March 1982.
• "Gasto Público, Déficit y Tipo Real de Cambio: Un Análisis de sus Interrelaciones de Largo Plazo", Working Paper CEMA, (1980), Cuadernos de Economía, Chile, August 1982.
• "La Estrategia de Estabilización con Tipo de Cambio Flexible y Política Monetaria Activa", Working Paper, CEMA, 1981, Cuadernos de Economía, 1984.
• "Inflación y Estabilidad", con Roque Fernández, Editorial Macchi (Buenos Aires), 1982.
• "Políticas de Estabilización en la Economía Argentina", CEMA, 1981, Cuadernos de Economía, 1983.
• "Estabilización en la Economía Abierta: Un Modelo de Simulación con Políticas Cambiarias Alternativas", with Rolf R. Mantel, Working Paper, CEMA, 1982.
• "Inflación, Salario Real y Tipo Real de Cambio", Working Paper, CEMA, 1984, Cuadernos de Economía, December 1984.
• "Complementariedad, Exenciones y Tributación Optima", with Rolf R. Mantel and Osvaldo H. Schenone, Working Paper, CEMA, July 1984.
• "Políticas Cambiarias y Reservas Internacionales", Working Paper, CEMA, September 1984.
• "Un Panorama de la Política Comercial Argentina", with Roque B. Fernández and Francisco Mondolfo, Working Paper CEMA, January 1985.
• "Inflación y Déficit Fiscal", Working Paper CEMA, May 1986.
• "Un Análisis Estilizado de la Reforma Financiera de Julio 1982", Working Paper CEMA, July 1986.
• "El Tipo Real de Cambio del Dólar Vs. el Yen: Un Modelo de Predicción Racional con Información Limitada", Working Paper CEMA, February 1988.
• "Un Análisis Teórico sobre la Recompra de Deuda Externa en Mercados Secundarios", Working Paper CEMA, March 1988.
• "Políticas Macroeconómicas para el Ajuste Estructural", IBRD Working Paper WPS #247, also in Working Paper CEMA, June 1988.
• "Reforma Monetaria y Financiera en Hiperinflación", with Aquiles A. Almansi, Working Paper CEMA, August 1989.
• "Managing Argentina’s External Debt: The Contribution of Debt Swaps", IBRD Working Paper IDP#0024, also Working Paper, CEMA, January 1990.
• "The External Effects of Public Sector Deficits", IBRD Working Paper WPS #229, also Working Paper CEMA, April 1990.
• "Monetary Policy in Brazil" paper prepared for IBRD LAICO, June 1991.
• "Peru: Macroeconomic Alternatives for Stabilization", prepared for IBRD, June 1990.
• "Inflation in Peru", Paper prepared for IBRD LAICO, May 1991.
• "Macroeconomic Problems in Czechoslovaquia", prepared for UNDP-IBRD Trade Expansion Programme. January 1990.
• "Inflation in Uruguay", prepared for IBRD and CEMA Working Paper # 75, May 1991.
• "The Macroeconomic Effects of Public Sector Deficits: Argentina", prepared for the IBRD Research Department, June 1990, CEMA Working Paper # 76, June 1991.
• "Dollarization in Latin America: Gresham Law in Reverse", with Pablo Guidotti, IMF Staff Papers, September 1992, also CEMA WP No. 81.
• "Money and Credit Under Currency Substitution", IMF Staff Papers, June 1993, also CEMA WP No. 82.
• "Financial Reforms in Latin America: The cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay", CEMA WP No. 84, July 1992.
• "Inflation in Brazil", CEMA WP No. 87, October 1992.
• "Macroeconomic Developments in Romania", CEMA WP No. 90, March 1993.
• "Economic Consequences of Quasi-fiscal Deficits", CEMA WP No. 91, Sept. 1993.
• "Interest Rates in Latin America", CEMA WP No. 98, April 1991.
• "Inflation and Stabilization in Brazil", CEMA WP No. 99, May 1994.
• "Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance", edited with Easterly and S. Hebbel, Oxford U. Press, 1994.
• "El Comercio Exterior en la Encrucijada", CEMA WP No. 101, Dec. 1994.
• "Ensayo sobre el Plan de Convertibilidad", CEMA WP No. 105, June 1995.
• "Ensayos sobre Aspectos Monetarios de la Economía Abierta", CEMA WP No. 111, March 1996.
• "Argentina Post-Tequila: Los Beneficios del Ajuste Estructural", CEMA WP No.120, August 1997.
• "Distribución del Ingreso en Argentina: Período 1988-90. Dos Décadas, Dos Modelos"CEMA WP No.147, May 1999.
• "Macroeconomic Policies: Can We Transfer Lessons Across LDC’s?",CEMA WP No.150, June 1999. Invited paper to the 1999 IEA Meetings in Buenos Aires.