• Trade Flows and Current Account Balances
• Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets
• Foreign Direct Investment
• The Trilemma, Capital Controls, Reserves and Financial Development
• International Currencies
• Exchange Rates
• Macroeconomics, Finance, Futures
• The Global Financial Crisis, the Great Recession and the Recovery
• Regional Economics
• Nowecasting
• International Digital Divide
• Financial Linkages and Financial Crises
• The Euro
• Interest Rate Parity and the Exchange Risk Premium
• China and East Asia
• Surveys of Foreign Exchange Traders in the U.S. and the U.K.

Trade Flows and Current Account Balances

• "Current Account Dynamics and Saving-Investment Nexus in a Changing and Uncertain World," Journal of International Money and Finance 151 (2025): 103238 (with Hiro Ito). [PDF]
• "A Requiem for "Blame It on Beijing": Interpreting Rotating Global Current Account Surpluses," Journal of International Money and Finance 121 (2022): 102510 (with Hiro Ito). [PDF]
• "The Once and Future Global Imbalances? Interpreting the Post-Crisis Record," paper presented at Kansas City Fed Jackson Hole Symposium "Fostering a Dynamic Global Economy," August 24-26, 2017. [PDF]
• "A Faith-based Initiative: Do We Really Know that a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Facilitates Current Account Adjustment," Review of Economics and Statistics 95(1) (2013): 168-184 (with Shang-Jin Wei) [PDF].
• "A Forensic Analysis of Global Imbalances," Oxford Economic Papers 66(2) (2014): 465-490 (with Barry Eichengreen and Hiro Ito). [PDF].
• "Getting Serious about the Twin Deficits," Special Council Report No. 10 (Council on Foreign Relations) [PDF].
• "Why the Deficits Matter," The International Economy (Summer 2006) (with Benn steil) [PDF].
• "Global Current Account Imbalances: American Fiscal Policy versus East Asian Savings," Review of International Economics 16(3) (2008), 479-498.(with Hiro Ito) [PDF].
• "Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions: Assaying the World 'Saving Glut'," Journal of International Money and Finance 26(4) (June 2007): 546-569 [PDF]. Revision of NBER Working Paper No. 11761 (November 2005) (with Hiro Ito).
• "Three Current Account Balances: A 'Semi-Structuralist' Interpretation," Japan and the World Economy (with Jaewoo Lee) [PDF].
• "Supply Capacity, Vertical Specialization and Trade Costs: The Implications for Aggregate U.S. Trade Flow Equations," Mimeo June 11, 2010. [PDF]
• "Doomed to Deficits? Aggregate U.S. Trade Flows Re-examined," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 141(3) (2005).[PDF].
• "Incomes, Exchange Rates and the U.S. Trade Deficit, Once Again," International Finance 7:3 (Winter 2004). [PDF].
• "Current Account and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in the G-7 Countries," Journal of International Money and Finance 25 (March 2006): 257-274 (with Jaewoo Lee) [PDF]
• "Medium Term Determinants of Current Accounts in Industrial and Developing Countries: An Empirical Exploration," Journal of International Economics59(1) (January 2003). (with Eswar Prasad, IMF) [PDF]; revision of NBER Working Paper 7581 (March 2000).

Foreign Direct Investment

• "Foreign Direct Investment under Uncertainty: Evidence from a large panel of countries," Review of International Economics 2022: 1-32 (with Caroline Jardet and Cristina Jude) [PDF]

Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets

• "Central Banking: Perspectives from Emerging Economies," On the Uses of Central Banks: Lessons from History, edited by Michael D. Bordo, Oyvind Eitrheim, Marc Flandreau and Jan F. Qvigstad (Norges Bank, 2016). [PDF]

The Trilemma, Capital Controls, Reserves and Financial Development

• "The Impacts of Crises on Trilemma Configurations," Open Economies Review 34(3) (2023): 479-517 (with Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito). [PDF]
• "Do Central Banks Rebalance Their Currency Shares?" JIMF 122 (2022): 102557 (with Hiro Ito and Robert McCauley). [PDF]
• "Financial Spillovers and Macroprudential Policies," (with Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito) Open Economies Review 31 (2020): 529–563 [PDF]
• "Balance Sheet Effects on Monetary and Financial Spillovers: The East Asian Crisis Plus 20," JIMF 74 (2017): 258-282 (with Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito). [PDF]
• "Monetary Policy and the Trilemma in the New Normal," Journal of International Money and Finance 68 (2016): 298-330 (with Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito). [PDF]
• "For a Few Dollars More: Reserves and Growth in Times of Crises," Journal of International Money and Finance 52 (2015): 127-145 (with Matthieu Bussière, Gong Cheng, and Noëmie Lisack. [PDF];
• "Trilemma Configurations in Asia in an Era of Financial Globalization," China and Asia in the Global Economy, edited by Yin-Wong Cheung and Guonan Ma (World Scientific, 2011) (with Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito). [PDF]
• "Surfing the Waves of Globalization: Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 25(3) (2011): 290-320 (with Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito). [PDF].
• "Assessing the Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Measuring the Trilemma's Configurations over Time," NBER Working Paper No. 14533 (with Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito). [PDF] Shorter version: "The 'Impossible Trinity' Hypothesis in an Era of Global Imbalances: Measurement and Testing," Review of International Economics 21(3) (2013): 447-458 [PDF].
• "The Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Tracing and Evaluating the New Patterns of the Trilemma's Configurations," JIMF 29(4) (2010): 615-641 (with Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito). [PDF].
• "The Euro and the Euro Area" paper presented at the IEFS panel at the 2006 ASSA. [PDF]
• "What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions," Journal of Development Economics 61(1) (2006): 163-192 (with Hiro Ito) [PDF].
• "A New Measure of Financial Openness," Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 10(3) (2008): 307-320 (with Hiro Ito) [PDF]. Data: Chinn-Ito (2006) Financial Openness measure (data extending to 2008, updated July 2010) [Excel file] (7/10) Notes to Chinn-Ito Financial Openness measure [PDF] (7/28/10). Chinn-Ito index used in World Bank, World Development Report 2009.
• Chinn-Ito capital account index webpage
• Aizenman-Chinn-Ito Trilemma indices webpage

International Currencies

• "Reserves, Sanctions and Tariffs in a Time of Uncertainty," paper presented at ECFIN-CEPR-JIMF conference, Brussels. March 2026 version [PDF]
• "The Dollar and the Euro as International Currencies," Journal of International Money and Finance (2024): 103-123. [PDF]
• "Emerging Market Economies and the Next Reserve Currencies," Open Economies Review 26(1) (Feb. 2015). [PDF]
• "The Rise of the "Redback" and China's Capital Account Liberalization: An Empirical Analysis on the Determinants of Invoicing Currencies," in Renminbi Internationalization: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges, edited by Barry Eichengreen and Masahiro Kawai (Brookings Institution Press for ADBI, 2015) (with Hiro Ito). [PDF]
• "The Euro May over the Next 15 Years Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Currency," International Finance 11(1) (2008) (with Jeffrey Frankel) [PDF].
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• "Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Reserve Currency?" (with Jeffrey Frankel) [PDF] in "G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment," edited by Richard Clarida.. Cited in "Economics focus: Currency competition,"Economist (29 Sept 2005)

Exchange Rates

• Exchange Rate Prediction Redux: New Models, New Data, New Currencies," Journal of International Money and Finance (2019) 95: 332-362 (with Yin-Wong Cheung, Antonio Garcia Pascual and Yi Zhang) [PDF].
• "Purchasing Power Parity and Real Exchange Rates," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (2019) [link]
• "Macro Approaches to Foreign Exchange Determination,"chapter in The Handbook of Exchange Rates, edited by Jessica James, Ian W. Marsh and Lucio Sarno (Wiley, 2012). [PDF]
• "Order Flow and the Monetary Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (with Michael M. Moore) [PDF]
• "Nonlinearities, Business Cycles and Exchange Rates," mimeo (August 2, 2008), Economic Notes [PDF].
• "Conventional and Unconventional Models Approaches to Exchange Rate Modeling and Assessment," (with Ron Alquist), International Journal of Finance and Economy 13 (2008). [PDF].
• Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the 1990's: Are Any Fit to Survive?, Journal of International Money and Finance 24 (November 2005) (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Antonio Garcia Pascual. [PDF] Economist article citing the paper.
• "Real Exchange Rates," entry for The New Palgrave (edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume). [PDF]
• "A Primer on Real Effective Exchange Rates: Determinants, Overvaluation, Trade Flows and Competitive Devaluation," Open Economies Review 17: 115-143 (2006). [PDF]
• Research Summary: Explaining Exchange Rate Behavior NBER Reporter (Spring 2003). [PDF]
• "Market Structure and the Persistence of Sectoral Deviations from Purchasing Power Parity," International Journal of Finance and Economics 6(2) (April 2001) (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii ). [PDF] Also NBER Working Paper #7408
• "The Usual Suspects? Productivity and Demand Shocks and Asia-Pacific Real Exchange Rates," Review of International Economics 8(1) (February 2000). [PDF]
• "Banking on Currency Forecasts: Is Change in Money Predictable?" Journal of International Economics38 (1-2) (1995): 161-78 (with Richard A. Meese) [PDF]
• "Some Linear and Nonlinear Thoughts on Exchange Rates," Journal of International Money and Finance10 (1991): 214-230. [PDF]

Macroeconomics, Finance, Futures

• "The Predictive Power of the Term Spread and Financial Variables for Economic Activity across Countries," Mimeo (Nov 2024) (with Laurent Ferrara). [PDF]
• "Do Foreign Yield Curves Predict U.S. Recessions and GDP Growth," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2024) (with Rashad Ahmed). [PDF]
• "Macroeconomic Forecasting using Filtered Signals from a Stock Market Cross Section," Journal of International Money and Finance 131 (2023) (with Nicolas Chatelais, Arthur Stalla-Bourdillon). [PDF]
• "The Predictive Power of the Yield Curve across Countries and Time," International Finance (March 2015) [PDF] Also NBER Working Paper No. 16398 (Sept. 2010) (with Kavan Kucko). [PDF] Data (Stata file): Chinn-Kucko data [please cite Chinn and Kucko as source if data is used] Cited in "Free Exchange: Bond yields reliably predict recessions. Why?"Economist (July 26, 2018)
• "Fiscal Multipliers," New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics [PDF].
• "Post-recession US employment through the lens of a non-linear Okun's law," Journal of Macroeconomics 42 (2014): 118-129, with Laurent Ferrara and Valérie Mignon. [PDF]
• "The Predictive Content of Commodity Futures," Journal of Futures Markets, 34(7) (2014): 607-636. (with Olivier Coibion). [PDF] Data [xlsx]
• "Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough Money in the World -- and At What Cost?" International Finance 14(3) (2012), 373-413 (with John Kitchen). [PDF]
• "The Predictive Content of Energy Futures: An Update on Petroleum, Natural Gas, Heating Oil an Gasoline," NBER Working Paper No. 11033, January 2005 (with Michael LeBlanc and Olivier Coibion). [PDF]
• "The Euro and the Euro Area" paper presented at the IEFS panel at the 2006 ASSA. [PDF]
• "Do High Oil Prices Presage Inflation? The Evidence from G-5 Countries," Business Economics 39(2) (2004) (with Michael LeBlanc, primary author). [PDF]
• "Further Investigation of the Uncertain Unit Root in U.S. GNP," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 15(1) (1997): 68-73.[PDF]
• "Deterministic, Stochastic, and Segmented Trends in Aggregate Output: A Cross-Country Perspective," Oxford Economic Papers 48(1) (1996): 134-162. [PDF]

The Global Financial Crisis, the Great Recession and the Recovery

• The Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (W.W. Norton) (with Jeffry Frieden). [link]
• "Global Spillovers and Domestic Monetary Policy: The Impacts on Exchange Rates and Other Asset Prices," paper prepared for the 12th annual BIS Annual Conference, Luzern, 20-21 June 2013. [PDF]
• "Threats to the World Economy Remain: Prospects for Growth And Rebalancing," GlobalAsia 5(3) (Fall 2010) [link]
• "Rebalancing Global Growth," Ascent after Descent: Regrowing Economic Growth, edited by Otaviano Canuto (with Barry Eichengreen and Hiro Ito) [PDF].
• "The Global Economy: The Prospects for Imbalances, Overheating, and the Recovery," Global Economic Crisis: Impacts, Transmission, and Recovery, edited by Maurice Obstfeld, Dongyul Cho, Andrew Mason, Sang Hyop Lee (Korean Development Institute). [PDF].
• "Reflections on the Causes and Consequences of the Debt Crisis of 2008," La Follette Policy Report 19(1) (Fall 2009): 1-5 (with Jeffry Frieden). [PDF].
• "Evidence on Financial Globalization and Crises: Global Imbalances," Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization, edited by Gerard Caprio, et al. (Elsevier) [PDF].

Regional Economics

• "Tracking the State Economies at High Frequency: A Primer," Mimeo (August 2018) [PDF]
• "The Impact of Minimum Wage Legislation in Minnesota vs. Wisconsin: Contra Williams," Mimeo (November 2018), with Louis Johnston. [PDF]

Nowcasting

• "Nowcasting World Trade with Machine Learning: a Three-Step Approach", Journal of Forecasting (2026) (with Baptiste Meunier and Sebastian Stumpner. [PDF]

International Digital Divide

• "ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration," Review of International Economics 18(1) (2010): 153-167. (with Rob Fairlie UCSC.) [PDF].
• "The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration," Oxford Economic Papers 59(1) (2007): 16-44 (with Rob Fairlie) [PDF].

Financial Linkages and Financial Crises

• "Measuring Financial Integration: More Data, More Currencies, More Expectations," Chapter 2 in Handbook of Financial Integration, edited by Guglielmo Maria Caporale (Edward Elgar, 2024) (with Hiro Ito) [PDF]
• "The Euro Area and World Interest Rates" (with Jeffrey Frankel). revision of a paper presented at NY Fed conference on "Financial Globalization". [PDF]
• "A Decomposition of Global Linkages in Financial Markets Over Time," Review of Economics and Statistics 86(3) (2004) (joint with Kristin Forbes) [PDF].
• "Imperfect information, domestic regulation and financial crises," in Reuven Glick, Ramon Moreno and Mark Spiegel (editors) Financial Crises in Emerging Markets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001): 196-237 (with Ken Kletzer) [PDF]
• "Before the Fall: Were East Asian Currencies Overvalued?" Emerging Markets Review1 (2) (2000). [PDF].
• "Latin America and East Asia in the Context of an Insurance Model of Financial Crises" Journal of International Money and Finance 18(4) (1999), 659-681 [PDF].

The Euro

• "Productivity and the Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate Puzzle," Mimeo (Dec. 2002) (with Ron Alquist). [PDF]. Revision of NBER WP #8824.
• "Tracking the Euro's Progress," International Finance 3(3) (2000): 357-373(with Ron Alquist). [PDF]

Interest Rate Parity and the Exchange Risk Premium

• "Measuring Financial Integration: More Data, More Countries, More Expectations," Edward Elgar, 2024: pp. 11-56 (with Hiro Ito). [link]
• "The New Fama Puzzle," IMF Economic Review 70(3) (2022): 451-486 (with Matthieu Bussiere, Laurent Ferrara and Jonas Heipertz). [PDF] NBER Working Paper No. 24342 [PDF] Data (excluding proprietary survey data): BCFH data [XLS]
• "A Third of a Century of Currency Expectations Data: The Carry Trade and the Risk Premium," mimeo (June 29, 2020) (with Jeffrey Frankel). [PDF]
• "Uncovered Interest Parity and Monetary Policy Near and Far from the Zero Lower Bound," Open Economies Review29, no. 1 (2018): 1-30. (with Yi Zhang) [PDF]
• "Long horizon uncovered interest parity re-assessed," mimeo (October 4, 2013) (with Saad Quayyum). [PDF]
• "Price-based Measurement of Financial Globalization: A Cross-Country Study of Interest Rate Parity," Pacific Economic Review 12(4) (2007):419-444 (with Hiro Ito). [PDF].
• "The (Partial) Rehabilitation of Interest Rate Parity in the Floating Rate Era: Longer Horizons, Alternative Expectations, and Emerging Markets," JIMF26 (2006): 7-21. [PDF]
• "Monetary Policy and Long-Horizon Uncovered Interest Rate Parity," IMF Staff Papers 51(3) (2004) [PDF] (with Guy Meredith). Econometric version available as "Testing Uncovered Interest Parity at Short and Long Horizons" mimeo (January 2005). [PDF].
• "Interest Rate Parity," [PDF] and "Forward Premium Puzzle," [PDF] entries for Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, edited by Kenneth Reinert and Ramkishen Rajan.
• "Free to Flow? New Results on Capital Mobility amongst the Developed countries," (August 2002) (with Rita Madarassy). [PDF]
• "Fin de Siecle Real Interest Parity," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 11(3-4) (September 2001) (with Eiji Fujii). [PDF]
• "More Survey Data on Exchange Rate Expectations: More Currencies, More Horizons, More Tests," (with Jeffrey Frankel ); in W. Allen and D. Dickinson (editors), Monetary Policy, Capital Flows and Financial Market Developments in the Era of Financial Globalisation: Essays in Honour of Max Fry, (Routledge, 2002), pp. 145-67. [PDF]

China and East Asia

• "Estimating Currency Misalignment Using the Penn Effect: It's Not As Simple As It Looks," International Finance 20(3) (2017): 222-242. (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Xin Nong). [PDF]
• "Global Supply Chains and Macroeconomic Relationships in Asia," in Asia and Global Production Networks: Implications for Trade, Incomes and Economic Vulnerability (Edward Elgar for for ADB, 2014). [PDF]
• "China-US Trade Flow Behavior: The Implications of Alternative Exchange Rate Measures and Trade Classifications," Review of World Economics 152(1) (2016): 43-67 (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Xingwang Qian) [PDF]
• "Are Chinese Trade Flows Different?" JIMF 31(8) (2012): 2127-2146. (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Xingwang Qian). [PDF]
• "A Note on the Debate over Renminbi Undervaluation," China and Asia in the Global Economy, edited by Yin-Wong Cheung and Guonan Ma (World Scientific, 2011) (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii). [PDF]
• "Measuring Misalignment: Latest Estimates for the Chinese Yuan," in The US-Sino Currency Dispute: New Insights from Politics, Economics and Law, edited by Simon Evenett (April 2010) (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii). [PDF].
• "Introduction: The Symposium on 'China's Impact on the Global Economy," Pacific Economic Review 3 (2009): 342-345. [PDF].
"Pitfalls in Measuring Exchange Rate Misalignment: The Yuan and Other Currencies," Open Economies Review 152(1), 43-67 (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii). [PDF].
• "China's Current and Account and Exchange Rate," in China's Growing Role in World Trade, co-edited by Rob Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii). [PDF].
• "The Fog Encircling the Renminbi Debate," Singapore Economic Review 52(3) (with Yin-Wong Cheung< and Eiji Fujii). [PDF].
• "The Overvaluation of Renminbi Undervaluation," Journal of International Money and Finance 26(5) (2007): 762-785.(with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii). [PDF].
• "The Illusion of Precision and the Role of the Renminbi in Regional Integration," in K. Hamada, B. Reszat and U. Volz (eds.), Prospects for Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009 (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii). [PDF].
• "Macroeconomic Management and Financial Stability: The Implications for East Asia," paper presented at OECD-PRI conference on "The Impact and Coherence of OECD Country Policies on Asian Developing Economies," Paris, June 10-11, 2004. [PDF]
The economic integration of greater China: real and financial linkages and the prospects for currency union. Vol. 1. Hong Kong University Press, 2007 (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii).
• "The Chinese Economies in Global Context: The Integration Process and Its Determinants," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 20(1) (2006) (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii). [PDF]
• "Dimensions of Financial Integration in Greater China: Money Markets, Banks and Policy Effects," International Journal of Finance and Economics 10(2) (April 2005) (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii). [PDF]

Surveys of Foreign Exchange Traders in the U.S. and the U.K.

• "Currency Traders and Exchange Rate Dynamics: A Survey of the U.S. Market," Journal of International Money and Finance 20(4) (August 2001) (with Yin-Wong Cheung).[PDF] Combined revision of NBER Working Papers #7416 and #7417.
• "How Do UK Foreign Exchange Dealers Think Their Market Operates?" International Journal of Finance and Economics 9: 289-306 (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Ian Marsh). [PDF]