Nicolas Magud is currently a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 2009. Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor of International Finance at the University of Oregon. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park. His main research interests are in open economy and closed economy macroeconomics. He focuses on fiscal policy, exchange rates, capital flows and capital controls. He also works in international trade issues.
Recent Blog Posts by Nicolas Magud
- The Missing Link Between Dutch Disease and Growth
- Is Multiple Equilibria Possible in Argentina? An update
- Is Multiple Equilibria Possible in Argentina?
- Toxic Assets: Bad Bank or Guarantees? Some Intertemporal Trade-Offs
- Latin American (and populist governments) Exogenous Twin Surpluses with Endogenous Twin Deficits
- On Argentina’s (and other Latin American countries’) Discount Factor
- On the distributive effects of terms of trade shocks: the role of non-tradable goods
- Argentina’s crisis response: some likely effects
- On the contractionary effects of expansionary fiscal policy, sustainability, and income distribution in Argentina (cont.)
- Argentina and the contractionary effects of expansionary fiscal policy
- Two to Tango: your savings but my expenditures; and the re-coupling of the financial channel—or: the Tango Effect Returns?
- Is Argentina running out of funds?
- Pro-cyclical government expenditures and commodities’ prices in Latin America (and Argentina in particular)
- Is (the Kirchners’ self-inflicted) Potential Hyperinflation Possible (Again) in Argentina?
- Macroeconomic Dynamics and (Present and Future) Income Distribution in Argentina: a Lucas’ Critique View
- On Populism in Argentina (and other Latin American Countries)
- Sub-prime Crisis: Argentina’s Consumption-Credit Variety
- Argentina: Some facts and some thoughts
- Is the Party Over in Argentina? The Market Internalizes the Political Effects of Inconsistent Macro Policies (or vice-versa?)
- The Short-Economics behind the Conflict Government vs. Rural Sector in Argentina
- Sound Macroeconomic Policies: Better Hurry or it will be TOO Late (or how Fiscal, Monetary, and Exchange Rate Policies are Running Behind the Curve)
- Argentina’s Way of Putting a Cap on Inflation: High Inflation ruled–out by Definition?
- Argentina 2008: Is the (already High) Inflation Rate Accelerating?
- Argentina has the chance to change its long-term growth for good—the appropriate use of fiscal expenditures













