Anton Korinek joined the University of Maryland as an assistant professor of economics in fall 2007.

His fields of interest are international finance, macroeconomics, and public finance, with a special emphasis on the consequences of capital market imperfections. In his current research, Korinek focuses more generally on the implications of international capital flows to emerging markets.

Korinek earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in April 2007, writing his dissertation on the topic of "Dollar Borrowing in Emerging Markets," which was supported by a DOC grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

• International Capital Flows and Finacial Crises   (December 2007)