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Monica Baumgarten de Bolle

Professional Affiliation

Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Expert Bio

Monica Baumgarten de Bolle holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. She is a former IMF Economist (2000-2005), a Professor of Macroeconomics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2006-Present), and a Director at the Institute for Economic Policy Studies IEPE/Casa das Garças, a think tank based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010-2014). As an economist, she has authored a number of books on Brazil’s policy challenges and writes regularly for daily newspapers “O Globo†and  â€œO Estado de São Pauloâ€. She also contributes economic analyses pieces to the Economist Intelligence Unit. 

Major Publications

  • Co-author of “A Reforma do Sistema Financeiro Americano: nova arquitetura internacional e o contexto regulatório brasileiro†with Dionisio Dias Carneiro (2010) (“US Financial Reform: The New International Architecture and the Brazilian Regulatory Contextâ€);
  • Co-author of “Novos Dilemas da Política Econômica – Ensaios em Homenagem a Dionisio Dias Carneiro†with Edmar Bacha (2011) (“The New Economic Policy Dilemmas – Essays in Honor of Dionisio Dias Carneiroâ€).
  • Co-author of “O Futuro da Indústria no Brasil: A Desindustrialização em Debate†with Edmar Bacha (2013) (“The Future of Brazilian Manufacturing: The De-industrialization Debateâ€).
  • Co-author of "The State of the World Economy: Seminars in Honor of Pedro S. Malan", with Edmar Bacha, Armínio Fraga, Regis Bonelli, and Ilan Goldfajn (2015).
  • Over 100 articles published by O Estado de S. Paulo.
  • Over 100 articles published by O Globo.