Carlos A. Vegh

University of Maryland

Carlos A. Vegh is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1987. He spent the early years of his career at the IMF’s Research Department. From 1995 to 2007, he was a tenured professor at UCLA’s Department of Economics. He has been co-editor of the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics, the leading journals in their respective fields. He has published extensively in leading academic journals on monetary and fiscal policy in developing and emerging countries. He has co-edited a volume in honor of Guillermo Calvo published by MIT Press and is currently working on a graduate textbook on open economy macroeconomics for developing countries to be published by MIT Press.