Biography

Visiting Professor of Economics, Tufts University and Claremont McKenna College

Graham Bird joined Surrey in 1975 and was promoted to a full professorship in 1987.

He is also a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, in the United States, and has held Visiting Professorships at Reading University in England, and at Wellesley College and Claremont McKenna College in the US. For a time during 1986 he was an Economic and Social Research Council Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden, and he has also been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Institute of International Development. He has taught at the Universities of Kent and Sussex, and at the London School of Economics. He has been a Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and a consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat, the World Bank, the World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNICEF, and UNDP. He was an economic adviser to the Brandt Commission. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Reform, the Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, and the Review of International Organizations, and has been a high level expert adviser to the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF and a Visiting Scholar in the IMF’s Research Department. He was Head of the Economics Department at Surrey for twelve years until the end of 1998, and served on the Steering Committee of the Royal Economic Society’s Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics and on the Quality Assurance Agency’s Benchmarking Group for Economics which set standards for teaching Economics at universities in the UK.

Research Interests

Graham Bird's principal research interests relate to the international financial problems of developing countries, and his research frequently crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. He has approaching 200 publications to his name and has published in the leading development studies, and international relations journals as well as in mainstream international economic journals. He has published a number of research monographs and textbooks and has had three papers published in the prestigious Essays in International Economics series by Princeton University. He is currently working on a series of research projects and papers dealing with various aspects of the IMF’s operations, currency crises, foreign aid, external debt and macroeconomic policy in developing countries. He has recently completed a research project funded by the British Academy investigating the determinants and catalytic effects of IMF programmes.

Publications

• "A Markov Switching Analysis of Contagion in the EMS," forthcoming in Journal of International Money and Finance, 2010 (with Alex Mandilaras).
• "Special Drawing Rights: How Fashions Change," forthcoming in World Economics, 11 (1) 2010.
• "The Episodic and Unpredictable Nature of IMF Lending: An Empirical Analysis," forthcoming in The World Economy (with Dane Rowlands).
• "Aid and Debt Relief in Africa: Have They Been Substitutes or Complements?" World Development, 38 (3) 2010, pp 219-227 (with Robert Powell).
• "The SDR Aid Link: It’s Now or Never," Development Policy Review, 28 (1) 2010, pp 63-74.
• "Exchange Rate Regimes in Developing and Emerging Economies and the Incidence of IMF Programs: What Does the Empirical Evidence Show?" World Development, 37 (12) 2009, pp 1839-1848 (with Dane Rowlands).
• "A Disaggregated Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of IMF Arrangements: Does One Model Fit All?" Journal of International Development, 21, 2009, pp 915-931 (with Dane Rowlands).
• "The IMF’s Role in Mobilizing Private Capital Flows: Are There Grounds for Catalytic Conversion?" Applied Economics Letters, 16 (17) 2009, 1705-1708 (with Dane Rowlands).
• "Reforming IMF Conditionality: From Streamlining to Major Overhaul," World Economics, 10 (3) 2009, pp 81-104.<</p>
• "So Far So Good, But Still Some Missing Links: A Report Card on the G20 London Summit," World Economics, 10 (2) 2009, pp 1-10.
• "The Dangers of Déjà Vu Economics," World Economics, 10 (1) 2009.
• "Why Do Governments Delay Devaluation: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Inertia," World Economics, 9 (4) 2008, pp 55-74 (with Thomas D. Willett).
• "Turkey and the IMF: A Case Study in the Political Economy of Policy Implementation," Review of International Organizations, 4 (2) 2009, pp135-157 (with Ozlem Arpac).
• "Unwinding Global Economic Imbalances: What’s Growth Got to Do with It?" World Economics, 9 (3), 2008, pp 211-215.
• "Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods: A Review Essay," World Economics, 9 (3), 2008, pp 229-233 (with Thomas D. Willett).
• "Revisiting Mrs. Machlup’s Wardrobe: The Accumulation of International Reserves, 1992-2001," forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters, available on line May, 2008 (with Alex Mandilaras).
• "Catalyzing Private Capital Flows and IMF Programs: Some Remaining Questions," Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 11 (1), 2008, pp 37-43 (with Dane Rowlands).
• "Foreign Exchange Pressures in Latin America: Does Debt Matter?" Journal of International Development, 20 (5), 2008, pp 613-627(with Alex Mandilaras).
• "Stop Interrupting: An Empirical Analysis of the Implementation of IMF Programs," World Development, 36 (9), 2008, pp1493-1513 (with Ozlem Arpac and Alex Mandilaras).
• "International Terrorism: Causes, Consequences and Cures," The World Economy, 31 (2), 2008, pp 255-74 (with S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory Hess).
• "The Implementation of IMF Programs: A Conceptual Framework," Review of International Organizations, 3 (1), 2008, pp 41-64, 2008.

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Current Working Papers and Books

• The IMF and the Challenges of Globalization, (with Dane Rowlands).
• "The Analysis of Catalysis: the IMF and Private Capital," under revision for International Studies Quarterly, (with Dane Rowlands).
• "Once Bitten: The Effects of IMF Programs on Subsequent Reserve Behavior" submitted to Review of International Economics (with Alex Mandilaras).
• "The Political Economy of Changing Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging and Developing Economies: A Markov Switching Analysis," in preparation (with Alex Mandilaras).
• "Explaining the Pattern of Drawings on the the IMF by Low Income Countries," in preparation (with Dane Rowlands)The Forecasting Ability of Currency Crisis Models for South East Asia,’ in preparation (with Alex Mandilaras).
• ‘Analyzing the Macroeconomic Effects of IMF Programs Based on Propensity Scores.’ (with Dane Rowlands).

Teaching

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