Charles Engel is Professor of Economics at University of Wisconsin. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Senior Fellow of the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He is Editor of the Journal of International Economics, the leading academic journal in the field of international economics. Previously, he has been Professor of Economics at University of Washington, and Associate Professor of Ecoomics at University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting scholar at central banks around the world, including Hong Kong, Australia, the Netherlands, and England, as well as at the Federal Reserve Board, several Federal Reserve Banks, and the International Monetary Fund.