Eduardo Borensztein

Eduardo Borensztein is currently Advisor at the Research Department of the IMF. In 2005-2006, he was a visiting scholar in the Research Department of the Interamerican Development Bank, where he co-authored the flagship research report of 2007, "Living with Debt, How to Limit the Risks of Sovereign Finance," led projects on the development of domestic bond markets, and local-currency and contingent financial instruments, and was advisor to the Chief Economist. Previously, he was Chief of the Strategic Issues Division of the Research Department of the IMF, where he has also worked in the Asian and African departments. He received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an undergraduate degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has also been an advisor to the Secretary of Finance of Argentina, and has worked at the Central Bank of Argentina and at FIEL, a private research institute in Buenos Aires. He has focused his research work in the areas of sovereign debt, exchange rate systems, currency crises, financial and foreign exchange markets, and transition economies.

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