Morris Goldstein

Morris Goldstein is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). From 1995-2010, he held the Dennis Weatherstone Chair at Peterson. Prior to joining Peterson in 1994, Dr. Goldstein spent twenty five years on the IMF staff, the last eight as Deputy Director of the IMF's Research Department. In 1999, he was the Project Director for the Council on Foreign Relations' blue-ribbon task force on the international financial architecture. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds an A.B. degree in Economics from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. Dr. Goldstein has written extensively on financial crises in both industrial and emerging economies, on international banking standards, on reform of the international financial architecture, on currency mismatching in emerging economies, on early warning indicators of currency and banking crises, on international capital flows, on exchange rate policies, and on empirical models of international trade. His latest book for the Peterson Institute was The Future of China's Exchange Rate Policy, co-authored in July 2009 with his Peterson Institute colleague, Nicholas Lardy. He is currently at work on a new book dealing with the lessons of the U.S. and EU-wide bank stress tests.