Cristina Arellano has been a senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis since 2009 and has been an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota since 2004 (currently on leave).
Cristina received her B.S. in economics from Indiana University in 1999 and earned a Ph.D. in economics in 2004 from Duke University. Since 2009 she has also served as a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on international macroeconomics, financial crises, and sovereign debt.
Cristina’s work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Economic Theory. She also coauthored a chapter, with Enrique Mendoza, in Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium, published by Cambridge University Press.
Recent Work/Updates
July 2012 - Staff Report 466
June 2012 - The Region
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May 2012 - Economic Policy Papers
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Revised July 2009 - Staff Report 392
August 2008 - Staff Report 410
January 2007 - Staff Report 385
Published In: Journal of Economic Theory
(Vol. 145, No. 3, May 2010, pp. 944-973)
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