Eswar Prasad is an Indian economist. As of 2018, he is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He held the New Century Chair in International Economics at Brookings.
Prasad began his studies in economics at the University of Madras (B.A., 1985), and continued at Brown University (M.A., 1986) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1992).
Prasad is a former Chief of the Financial Studies Division at the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department and was also the head of the IMF’s China division. He served as the co-editor of the journal IMF Staff Papers, was on the editorial board of Finance & Development and was the founding editor of the quarterly IMF Research Bulletin. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn.
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“Financial openness matters because it has the potential to catalyze development of the domestic financial sector, improvements in institutions, and better macroeconomic policies. These factors should improve allocative efficiency and, by extension, total factor productivity (TFP) growth”
Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institute
