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Charles W. Calomiris
Uris Hall, 601
Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business; Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-8748
www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/ccalomiris/
cc374@columbia.edu
Biography:
Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He is a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, the Shadow Open Market Committee, the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, the Federal Reserve Centennial Advisory Council, the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Crises, the Bretton Woods Committee, and the Financial Economists Roundtable, and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Calomiris was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Task Force on Property Rights at the Hoover Institution, and a member of the Pew Trusts Project on Financial Reform. He co-directed the Project on Financial Deregulation at the American Enterprise Institute for over a decade. Professor Calomiris served on the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, a Congressional commission to advise the U.S. government on the reform of the IMF, the World Bank, the regional development banks and the WTO. In 2011 he was the Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow at the Bank of England.
His research spans several areas, including banking, corporate finance, financial history, monetary economics and economic development. He received a BA in economics from Yale University in 1979 and a PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1985.
Professor Calomiris is the recipient of research grants or awards from the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Japanese Government and others. He serves or has served as a consultant or visiting scholar for the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve Board, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the governments of Mexico, Argentina, Japan, China, El Salvador, Brazil, Colombia, Connecticut and Massachusetts and various private sector clients.
Recently, Professor Calomiris co-designed Columbia Business School partnership programs with the University of Dar Es Salaam and the US International University in Nairobi, and taught in both those programs. His recent speaking engagements include keynote speeches at the annual research conferences of the European Central Bank, the IMF, and Kansas City Fed Jackson Hole Symposium, the Central Bank of Chile, the Brazilian Bank Association and the Cayman Business Outlook, among others.Search Categories: economics, finance, emerging markets, economic history
Publications:
His recent books include China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads (Columbia University, 2006), Sustaining India's Growth Miracle (Columbia University, 2007), A Globalist Manifesto for Public Policy, (Institute for Economic Affairs, 2002), Emerging Financial Markets (with David Beim, Irwin-McGraw Hill, 2001), and U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2000 and 2006). His forthcoming book, with Stephen Haber, is entitled Fragile By Design: Banking Crises, Scarce Credit, and Political Bargains (Princeton University Press, 2013).
He has also published numerous journal articles and chapters in scholarly volumes.