Christopher Crowe

Christopher Crowe 202 5th St SE #2 +1 202 460-9247 Washington DC, 20003 ccrowe@imf.org PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE International Monetary Fund. October 2005 – Economist, Grade A13. October 2009 – Economist, Grade A12. October 2007 – October 2009 Research Department Economist Program, Grade A11 Asia Pacific Department. Oct. 2006 – Oct. 2007 Research Department. Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2006 Country Economist, Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados. 1998 – 2001 ODI Fellowship Scheme (1998 – 2000) Consultant Country Analyst. 2002 – 2004 Customer: Datamonitor PLC Course Instructor. November 2003 / March 2004 Funded by DFID / British Council Research Assistant. 1998 / 2002 – 2005 Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics Summer Student. July – August 1996 Institute for Fiscal Studies EDUCATION PhD. Economics, London School of Economics. 2001 – 2005 The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy: Policies, Preferences and Institutions. Gianluca Benigno (Supervisor); Roberto Perotti (Bocconi; external examiner); Anne Sibert (Birkbeck; internal examiner). MSc. Economics, London School of Economics. 1997 – 1998 Pass with Distinction. BA Economics, Cambridge University. 1994 – 1997 2:1. AWARDS ESRC Research Scholarship (2001 – 2004). ESRC Research Studentship (1997 – 1998). TRAINING Financial Programming (IMF Institute; 2005). Economics Training (IMF Institute, various topics; 2005 – 2009). Media Training, Centre for Economic Performance (2005). Spanish (IMF; ongoing). LANGUAGE AND IT SKILLS English (native speaker); Spanish (advanced). MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint). STATA (including programming); EVIEWS; MATLAB. PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Published Work “Testing the Transparency Benefits of Inflation Targeting: Evidence from Private Sector Forecasts” (2010), Journal of Monetary Economics 57 (2) 262–32. “Policy Advice to emerging market countries in the current crisis: what’s new? What’s different? Why?” (2009) Revue D’Economie Financiere 95 307–324. With Marcos Chamon, Atish R. Ghosh, Jun Kim and Jonathan D. Ostry. “Goal Independent Central Banks: Why Politicians Decide to Delegate,” European Journal of Political Economy 24 (4). “Central Bank Independence and Transparency: Evolution and Effectiveness” (forthcoming), European Journal of Political Economy 24 (4). With Ellen Meade. “The Evolution of Central Bank Governance around the World” (2007), Journal of Economic Perspectives 21 (4) 69–90. With Ellen Meade. Macro-Financial Linkages: Trends, Crises and Policies. Editor (with Simon Johnson, Jonathan D. Ostry and Jeromin Zettelmeyer). Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund (forthcoming). “Education and Preferences for Income Redistribution in a Cross-Section of Countries,” in Education and Inequality Across Europe, P. Dolton, R. Asplund and E. Barth, eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (2009). Current Working Papers “Irrational Exuberance in the U.S. Housing Market: Were Evangelicals Left Behind?” (IMF WP 09/57). “House Prices and Household Credit Access: Evidence from Prosper.com.” With Rodney Ramcharan. “Monetary Policy Matters: New Evidence based on a New Shock Measure.” With S. Mahdi Barakchian. “Consensus Forecasts and Inefficient Information Aggregation.” Conferences Cass Business School, London. Money Macro and Finance Research Group, 2004 (presenter). World Bank, Washington, DC. III World Bank Conference on Inequality, 2006 (presenter). Bocconi University, Milan. Does Central Bank Independence Still Matter? 2007 (presenter and discussant). Banca d’Italia, Rome. Third Banca d’Italia/CEPR Conference on Money, Banking and Finance, 2007 (discussant). University of Warwick, Royal Economic Society Conference, March 2008 (presenter). University of British Columbia, Canadian Economic Association Annual Meeting, June 2008 (presenter). Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture Annual Meeting, April 2009 (presenter) Waterloo University, Ontario. Central Bank Communication, Decision-Making and Governance, April 2009 (discussant) Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway. Two Decades of IT: Where do we Stand? (presenter). Western Economics Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2009 (presenter). RBA/ANU conference on Behavioral Macroeconomics, Sydney, Australia, June 2009 (presenter). Banco de España conference on Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions, Madrid, Spain, February 2010 (presenter). ECB Forecasting Workshop, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2010 (presenter). Other Professional Experience Referee for the Economic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the International Journal of Central Banking, among other journals. Live studio interview discussing European economic performance, BBC World (2005). Interview with Ricardo Caballero on IMF external website (2009). References Jonathan Ostry Rex Ghosh Gianluca Benigno Deputy Director Division Chief Reader in Economics Research Department Research Department Department of Economics International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund London School of Economics 700 19th Street NW 700 19th Street NW Houghton Street Washington, DC 20431. Washington, DC 20431. London WC2A 2AE, UK. jostry@imf.org aghosh@imf.org g.benigno@lse.ac.uk +1 202 623-7405 +1 202 623-6288 +44(0)20 7955-7868

Monetary Economics, Monetary Policy, Central Bank Governance, Forecasting, Housing Market.