Professor Popper teaches courses in international economics, international macroeconomics, international business, and econometrics. Her current research explores exchange rates and international capital markets; risk and information; and the actions of central banks.
She has published articles on foreign exchange risk, international capital markets, information sharing, inflation, central bank activities in such journals as the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Before coming to Santa Clara, Professor Popper received her Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley, then worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C., where she routinely briefed the Board on international economic and financial developments. Along the way, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, the Bank of Mexico and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and she has been a visiting Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. She has consulted for the World Bank, the Federal Reserve, and in the utility industry. She is currently a Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economic Research and at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
