Research Bio
Barry Eichengreen is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). He received his A.B. from UC Santa Cruz, and an M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in economics as well as an M.A. in History from Yale University.
His current research includes the world economy, Latin American and Asian bond markets, the history and operation of the international monetary and financial system, and the post-World War II European economy.
Research Expertise and Interest
Europe, China, economic growth, international economics, international finance, international monetary economics, economic history
In the News
Berkeley Talks: Economists on What It’ll Take to Rebuild Ukraine
Will Ireland go bankrupt? Economic historian sheds light on latest eurozone crisis
UC Berkeley economic historian Barry Eichengreen, an expert on the international monetary and financial system, discussed the Irish economic crisis at a campus seminar Nov. 17. He said Ireland needs to restructure much of the bank debt that its government has effectively taken onto its balance sheet — debt that could reach a staggering 130 percent of GDP in the coming year.
IRLE's conference on "New Deal/No Deal?"
In the midst of forecasts of continuing economic woes and congressional gridlock, experts gathered recently at UC Berkeley to assess what worked and what didn’t during the Great Depression-inspired New Deal, the Obama administration’s still emerging efforts to ease the Great Recession, and prospects for relief, reform and recovery.
Grant launches Berkeley Economic History Lab
The University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Economics is the recipient of a $1.25 million grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) to develop a Berkeley Economic History Laboratory to train more historically literate economists who can contribute to policy debates and help avoid devastating economic crises.
Featured in the Media
Transcript of a discussion between Soumaya Keynes and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth in which they discuss a working paper, "Sustained Debt Reduction: The Jamaica Exception", by Serkan Arslanalp of the IMF, Barry Eichengreen of the University of California, Berkeley, and Peter Blair Henry of Stanford University.
UC Berkeley Professor of Economics, Barry Eichengreen, has authored a paper title 'Inflation Targeting In India: A Further Assessment' noting "The RBI's inflation targeting regime has worked well. Given this record, radical changes such as broadening its mandate or abandoning the target in favour of a more discretionary regime would be risky and counterproductive."
A new analysis of UK voters' attitudes toward the European Union over the past 50 years, co-authored by economics professor Barry Eichengreen for the U.S.-based National Bureau of Economic Research, has found that Eurosceptic baby boomers may have swung the Brexit vote. "Evidently, cohort effects have affected sentiment toward the EU over the past half century in increasingly negative ways, as the relatively pro-European prewar generation was progressively replaced by more Eurosceptic baby boomers," Professor Eichengreen and his co-authors wrote in their report.