Eduardo Fernandez-Arias is Principal Economist of the Research Department and Coordinator of the Network of Central Banks and Finance Ministries of the Inter-American Development Bank. Formerly he was Chief Economist for the Southern Cone Region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) at the Inter-American Development Bank and Researcher at the International Economics Department of the World Bank. Mr. Fernández-Arias received a Ph.D. in Economics, as well as an M.A. in Statistics, from the University of California at Berkeley.
His main interests include financial integration and capital flows, financial crises, and productivity and economic development. He has written and published extensively in journals such as Journal of International Economics and Journal of Development Economics and directed numerous multi-country policy research projects on the above subjects. Dr. Fernández-Arias has edited several books and is currently Associate Editor of Economia, the journal of the Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Association.
