This timely webinar convenes scholarly and policy experts to take stock of Argentina’s debt bailout and elections, using both to probe how U.S. foreign economic policy is entering a new phase. Panelists will compare these developments with U.S. interventions in other key economies and discuss what they reveal about Washington’s broader strategy -- across trade, finance, and geopolitical influence -- in an era of global economic uncertainty.
Please register via Zoom at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jo_am-VzQ2OIU4eOz0NJvQ
Bios:
Fernando Cirelli is an Assistant Professor at SIPA, specializing in macroeconomics with a focus on monetary economics and macro-finance. His research explores the unequal effects of aggregate events, such as recessions and inflation, on households and firms. He also investigates the appropriate response by policy institutions once these heterogeneous effects are considered. Fernando holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University and an MA and BA in economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
Jeffry Frieden is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second updated edition 2020); of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Frieden is also the author of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.
María Victoria Murillo is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University. Her work focuses on distributive politics, electoral behavior, institutional weakness, Latin American politics, agricultural and conservation policies. She is the author of, among others, Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press 2001). Murillo received her BA from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and her MA and PhD from Harvard University.
